Genre: psychological
drama
With: Jeff Bridges (Max Klein), Isabella Rossellini (his wife Laura),
Rosie Perez (Carla Rodrigo), Benicio del Toro (Mannie, Carla’s husband), Tom
Hulce (Brillstein) and John Turturro (Doctor Perlman)
Director: Peter
Weir
Release: 1993
Studio: Warner
Brothers
Rating: R
MBiS score: 8.4/10
Some Guys Have All
the Luck
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Story-line:
when Max
Klein and his associate took a flight to Houston, they never expected it would
end in a crash… with only one of them surviving.
Pluses:
bravura performances by Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez, solid support from Isabella
Rossellini and Tom Hulce as less likeable characters, an ambitious screenplay by
Rafael Yglesias.
Minuses:
none really.
Comments: it
only takes a minute to realize that FEARLESS is a hard-hitting and enriching movie
that goes to the heart of human experience. In some ways, Max will become an
enigma after his miraculous escape, a man disconnected from our world. Should we
fear the future? How can we cope with tragedy? As Peter Weir’s demanding film demonstrates,
the answers are not simple and the road to understanding is often difficult to
follow.
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