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Jack Baran, director of "Destiny Turns on the Radio," has never directed a movie before. If he decides to direct another, he needs to choose a better script. This one, written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone, is a loser. The writers have concentrated far more on its strangeness than on developing its many good ideas...
...mythic pool, while Henry Thoreau lived next to a mythic pond, but this is left just a gimmick. Much of the movie takes place at the Marilyn Motel. The controversy surrounding Monroe's life and death is supposed to echo the theme of extraordinary events. The film's script cripples any possibly interesting manifestation of this potentially interesting idea...
...transported out by his pool. Even Vidivici, the record producer, must hitch a ride, because he has no car. When a relationship starts or ends or succeeds, it is always because Destiny has allowed or caused it to happen. These ideas are intriguing, but, like Las Vegas itself, the script that contains them is all promise, all show and no substance...
...When a script of unrealized potential is coupled with an inexperienced director, the actor have their work cut out for them. For the most part in this film, they do admirably well. McDermott is an impossible position, being on-screen for most of the movie and doing the same things over, and over but he gets a lot of mileage from the emotional intensity that worked for him as Clint Eastwood's partner in "In the Line of Fire...
...writers do not do justice to their good ideas, leaving them underdeveloped and unused. The final product does no justice to anyone, actors, director, or the writers whose script seems to have gotten away from them. "Destiny Turns on the Radio" spells bad luck for everyone...