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| angie
Year: 1994
Directed:
- Martha Coolidge
Actors/Actresses:
- Geena Davis
- Stephen Rea
- James Gandolfini
Let's throw in 15 subplots and abandon them all.
Though Geena Davis is a great actress, good at playing particularly strong-willed women, the screenplay for "Angie" just meanders all over the place, from light comedy to the staunchest of melodramas.
I mean, what kind of a movie has a woman go into labor while gyrating in a Santa Claus suit then show her give birth to a one-armed baby, get abandoned by her married lover, watch as her stepmother breast-feeds the one-armed baby, abandons said baby, finds her long-lost mother (who it turns out is a schizophrenic), learns that one-armed baby is in a coma... all in about 15 minutes.
This was one of the most uneven films I've ever seen. Turturro's particularly good in it as the best friend, yet her character is left out of the final half hour, though she's a central character, and never returned to. Rea and Gandolfini's potentials are completely wasted in a movie that just doesn't seem to know what to do with itself.
Boring, whiney chick-flick
This film bored me out of my skull. Angie is an Italian woman from a traditional blue collar background who tries to "find herself" and become "self-actualized." So she bounces about relationships, tries her hand at pink collar careers, fixes up her own place, gets pregnant, gives up the kid (he's handicapped), then decides she wants it back. She also mends emotional bridges with her mother. Blah, blah, blah, yadda yadda, plus some hanky scenes and screamfests.
I really hated this movie. I only bought it because the Internet Movie Database claimed that horror/B-movie actress Diane DiLascio (Poltergeist: The Legacy, Babylon 5, Star Trek: Enterprise) was in it. She's not. Guess she ended up on the cutting room floor.
Very good
actually, Christina from Canada, Angie becomes pregnant by Vinnie, and then she dates Noel. Otherwise I agree w/ what everyone else said about this movie. And James Gandolfini is actually pretty good looking & much less scary when thin.
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