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Release Date: 20 April, 2004 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
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this is such a cool movie, I do'nt understand why it was'nt a big hit. It's nice to see Goldie in something serious for once, although She got upstaged big time by David Arnott. Its obvious that some scenes were cut, (bummer) while it's surprising to see one that wasn't. The one I mean is where criss and girlfriend Termina play "show Me Yours, and I'll show You Mine". It's also surprising that a kid His age did a nude scene. The kids in the movie blow the adults away in the acting department,and I'm amazed that David Arnott did'nt appear in anything after this movie. The thing that would be really cool would be the directors cut, kinda doubt it though.
Add A Star If You Like Goldie Hawn
If you do, you'll be in hog heaven as Hawn portrays a piece of beach trash who tries a little late to mend her ways. The relationship between her character and that of her son, who looks to be around 11 or 12 in the film, is one of the enduring accounts in the movies of a mother trying to stay too young and a boy overcome by urges he didn't know he had. The young actor who plays the boy, David Arnott, does a fine job maneuvering between trying to be just a kid and having to deal with unexpected adult complexities. He breaks your heart as he attempts valiantly to be the father to the eternally youthful and hedonistic character Goldie Hawn plays, she should be the mother but she doesn't know how to. And Arliss Howard is in the movie too, always underrated, with killer looks and a mean streak that gives him a bit of Warren Oates-like excitement. This movie tries to stretch Goldie Hawn's acting chops a bit but I think people will always prefer her in kind of ditsy comedy roles. This one hit too close to home for her many fans to enjoy it, and there aren't really enough boy-watchers out there to have made this a huge hit on account of the then-unknown David Arnott.
It's the kind of American movie that was being made in the age of the New American Cinema of the 1970s, a character-driven study of laziness, cruelty and unexpected courage, more akin perhaps to SUGARLAND EXPRESS or SHAMPOO than to any of Goldie's other films. She and Arnott should team up for another picture today, it could be a hit, if enough marketing muscle is leveraged to get those asses into the seats as they say.
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