Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...film is set in eighteenth century Scotland, a time, a rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...
Hollomon is a talented actress whom one would suspect of being Winona Ryder and Dave Pirner's love child if she weren't in the same age group. Her effortless portrayal of a 17-year-old outsider is what makes this movie worth seeing. Thought the script lapses into predictability sometimes, a few experimental angles don't quite make the grade and the other actors' believability fades in and out, Laurel is always endearing and easy to relate...