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List Price: $9.99 Our Price: $9.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 16 November, 1995 DVD Release : 16 November, 1999 |
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The Crossing Guard description Sean Penn wrote and directed this character-driven drama about a divorced couple (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) whose relationship never recovered following the death of their daughter at the hands of a drunk driver (David Morse). When the latter's character, a deeply regretful and changed man, gets out of jail, Nicholson, as the vengeful dad, decides to go after him. As a director, Penn is not so good with fluid storytelling and camera clichés, but he is amazing as an actor's director. The onscreen reteaming of former real-life lovers Nicholson and Huston is more than just a voyeuristic exercise: Penn ingeniously uses the duo's palpable friction to bring an often horrifying reality to the pain of a dead relationship. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Sean Penn has his moments of geniousness |
| Even though he seems to like using incredibly unwatchable crying scenes for some reason. Not even nice, cathartic crying scenes, which, when used effectively, are effective. But the really ugly, awkward, "ok everyone quiet down we're shooting the Nicholson crying scene so let's all watch the actor cry" type of crying. Kinda bogs the movie down a little, just like all of Penn's constant crying scenes in "Mystic River", the official sequel to Bull Durham. I don't even think Penn had any lines in that movie, just full-on super over-the-top face-is-going-to-explode crying scenes. Again, kinda sucks the wind out of the movie, since it isn't done tastefully. I know that's the point of crying, to not have to worry about being tasteful, but somehow they still manage to really botch it.
So, grab a bag of popcorn and a fresh box of kleenex, but just eat the popcorn and let the kleenex sit there unopened 'cause you won't need it. You'll most likely either be laughing at the "sad" scenes, or frantically scrambling for the remote. The rest of the movie is great though. Even better than Forrest Gump. |
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