Movie Recommendations
PostedThu Jan 13, 2005 4:20 pm
The Boost - (1988)
Directed by Harold Becker
With James Woods, Sean Young, Steven Hill
An extremely talented salesman with a profound confidence problem and the wife who supports him through thick and thin...and a few kilos of cocaine.
Making your audience empathize with characters is trricky enough. But, then showing them plausibly degenerate to where they're unrecognizable is really a feat.
This movie does that in one of the best ways I've ever seen. I first saw it during the '90's and it still holds up.
A drug addiction is probably alot broader than a moive story, but if there's ever a movie that's a caution against drugs, this one is it.
I won't risk spoiling it but this is a raw movie with raw performances. The two leads, Woods and Young, I've been fans of for a long time. Woods has great style. And Sean Young, I believe, is one of the greatest actresses of her generation. Too bad she became a Hollywood pariah relatively early in her career.
Anyway, I give it two lekku WAY up
Check it out.
Directed by Harold Becker
With James Woods, Sean Young, Steven Hill
An extremely talented salesman with a profound confidence problem and the wife who supports him through thick and thin...and a few kilos of cocaine.
Making your audience empathize with characters is trricky enough. But, then showing them plausibly degenerate to where they're unrecognizable is really a feat.
This movie does that in one of the best ways I've ever seen. I first saw it during the '90's and it still holds up.
A drug addiction is probably alot broader than a moive story, but if there's ever a movie that's a caution against drugs, this one is it.
I won't risk spoiling it but this is a raw movie with raw performances. The two leads, Woods and Young, I've been fans of for a long time. Woods has great style. And Sean Young, I believe, is one of the greatest actresses of her generation. Too bad she became a Hollywood pariah relatively early in her career.
Anyway, I give it two lekku WAY up
Check it out.