About Last Night... [Blu-ray] Overview
Genre: Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 11-AUG-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray
About Last Night... [Blu-ray] Specifications
For better or worse, David Mamet's hit play Sexual Perversity in Chicago is watered down into this romantic comedy about a couple (played by Rob Lowe and Demi Moore) who get together and then fall apart due to Lowe's character's inability to commit. Jim Belushi is on hand as the gratuitously swinish best friend who looks at women as meat, and Elizabeth Perkins is entertainingly arch as Moore's gal pal and Belushi's nemesis. There's nothing about this 1986 film by Edward Zwick (cocreator of TV's thirtysomething and director of Glory and Courage Under Fire) that is at all reminiscent of Mamet, but that doesn't make it bad or dull. While one can feel the script straining to fill in gaps where chunks of the original play have disappeared, Zwick often successfully tells the story without words at all, relying on the actors to convey pure emotion. Lowe is good, and the then-willowy Moore's understated performance reminds one of the actress she might have been before she became a spectacle. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
I remember, "About Last Night" was originally published in 1986, met, was not drafted with knives of the critics, however, yawning contempt. This can probably be attributed to the ridiculous Flack held for the stars Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. You see the movie again for the first time in twenty years is safe to say that this is some of the best works of Lowe and Moore have ever done. It helps if there is a decent script to play on a David Mamet, to work with. The film explores the birth ofa report of the first flower of love is ultimately a possible separation of reconciliation. The film examines the forces that the sacrifice of a report from within and from without. The forces that are outside Scuttle Lowe and good relationship with Moore's Jim Belushi and Elizabeth Perkins, whose reasons are less altruistic than indicated. This film is timeless, because the problems that exist outside the culture of the eighties there.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment