Interview With the Vampire . Tucson Weekly . 01-05-95

Interview With the Vampire

DIRECTED BY: Neil Jordan

REVIEWED: 01-05-95

Anne Rice's tale of depressed, codependent vampires who stay depressed and codependent for hundreds of years doesn't exactly get the blood movin'. Directed by The Crying Game's Neil Jordan, with lots of lush sets, cinematography and special effects, the film is a feast for the eyes but malnutrition for the cranium. Brad Pitt does a respectable job with his dark-spirited role, and Tom Cruise--who, not surprisingly, plays a cocky vampire--avoids being too annoying. But without a plot, what have you got? Vampire therapy for the terminally pretentious.

--Zachary Woodruff

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Interview With the Vampire

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