Bopha!
Bopha! Directed by Morgan Freeman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard, Malcolm Mcdowell, Marius Weyers. Freeman makes his directing debut with this fact-based fiction set in a South African township about the challenges faced by a black police officer and his family when they learn that the son opposes the…
Rudy
Rudy 1993. Directed by David Anspaugh, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Sean Astin, Ned Beatty, Charles S. Dutton, Jason Miller, Lili Taylor, Robert Prosky. The Hoosiers team (screenwriter Angelo Pizzo and director Anspaugh) regroup for another inspirational sports tale and, surprisingly, again succeed more than they fail. This is the slightest of tales:…
Dangerous Touch
Dangerous Touch 1993, R. Directed by Lou Diamond Phillips, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Kate Vernon, Max Gail. There’s no delicate way to say this: Hands off Dangerous Touch. The only thing you might find yourself wanting to touch is yourself, for this is essentially a “stroke” movie. And, yes,…
Judgment Night
Judgment Night 1993. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven. Bang. Bang. Click… ahhh, shit. Misfire…. That’s about the feeling one gets from Hopkins’s take on the venerable fish-out-of-water cum chase subgenre, a film that poses the burning question, “Can four…
Mr. Wonderful
Mr. Wonderful 1993. Directed by Anthony Minghella, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Matt Dillon, Annabella Sciorra, Mary-Louise Parker, William Hurt. Minghella’s previous film, the elegiac Truly, Madly, Deeply, was a bittersweet love story involving a ghost. Mr. Wonderful, on the other hand, is a ghost of a love story: shallow, fluffy, and prone…
Two Mikes Don’t Make a Wright
Two Mikes Don’t Make a Wright 1992. Directed by Steven Wright, Michael Moore, Mike Leigh, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Steven Wright, Rowan Atkinson, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Moore, Jim Broadbent. Any TV watcher with access to PBS and A&E may have already seen these three short films, but that’s still no excuse to…
For a Lost Soldier
For a Lost Soldier 1992, R, 92 min. Directed by Roeland Kerbosch, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Maarten Smit, Andrew Kelley, Jeroen Krabbe, Feark Smink. This gorgeous, strange film (based on the novel by Dutch author Rudi van Dantzig) starts off looking like John Boorman’s life-during-wartime remembrance Hope and Glory, and ends up…
