Thursday, July 28, 2011
OLD TIMER
Today's movie was a Robert Duval vehicle
And a pretty good vehicle it is. Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray join up.
This is all country maybe in the 20's.
A hermity, eccentric old man wants to have his funeral before he dies so that "he can hear people's stories about him".
The film wanders along and tells several stories while it gets to a dramatic end. Very nice. Satisfying.
I enjoyed it. I like to watch Bill Murray any time. He is straight acting in this one although a bit of the Bill we know shows through.
Lucas Black plays the male ingenue, straight man foil to Murray. They make a good pair. One thinks that it is a balance of good and evil. They almost steal the film from Duval but he has the final scenes and takes it back. Spacek is pretty good at the hambone also.
I do not understand the title. At all.
But, I liked it. A good solid 3 out of Netflix5.
Oh, there is a great mule in it too.
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