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The Dogme 95 movement produces another winner — a feel-good movie whose effects are not cheap. Or not very cheap.
OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?
Excess Baggage, directed by Marco Brambilla but under the creative control of Alicia Silverstone stars the rather pudgy Miss Silverstone as Emily Hope, a poor little rich girl, always getting into trouble, who stages her own kidnapping so that her brute of a father, who is a shady businessman in Seattle who is not overeager…
Perhaps the most unforgettable moment in In and Out (written by Paul Rudnick and directed by Frank Oz) comes as Joan Cusack, having just been jilted at the altar by Kevin Kline, who has picked that moment to decide that he is gay ( “Was there any other time you could have told me this?”…
Like other sorts of horror movies, The Stepford Wives, has now gone postmodern and ironic, for who today is terrified of being forced to be a housewife?