Kicked in the Head . Tucson Weekly . 10-06-97

Kicked in the Head

DIRECTED BY: Matthew Harrison

REVIEWED: 10-06-97

Anyone's whose ever been kicked in the head, or even just punched, knows that rather than clear the mental palate, it tends to fuzz things up. Kicked in the Head, a droll, Gen X comedy, wades through the fuzzy, unfocused terrain of a young man's identity crisis without any particular route or destination. "I'm on a voyage of self-discovery," drones Redmond, the poor, lost little protagonist (Kevin Corrigan, who also co-wrote)--a sort of distant cousin of the poor, lost Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate. Redmond, however, has not graduated, and he doesn't live at home (though Linda Fiorentino does end up being his older mistress); he just sort of floats through a strange, disjointed city "looking for truth," bumping up against an assortment of eccentrics who may or may not help him in his quest. This is the kind of semi-surreal movie where characters get fortune cookies that say, "Your attendant godling has lost her way," and minor characters shoot each other up in "beer wars" while lounge music plays on the soundtrack. It's all pleasantly cute and mildly amusing, and then, in the middle of it all, it just ends.

--Richter

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