Nothing to Lose . Tucson Weekly . 07-21-97

Nothing to Lose

DIRECTED BY: Steve Oedekerk

REVIEWED: 07-21-97

I had a dream I was trying to write this thing but I couldn't remember the name of the movie...A swirling mass of trite phrases...Orange, manta ray, a dwarf...I believed the title might be the vaguely homoerotic The Bigger The Bucks; then I was convinced it was Nobody's Business, which I believe to be the name of some other movie (in real life). Bland, empty, meaningless wordplays arose and fell away in my tormented head; scenes from 20 different buddy movies blended together and recombined: A married man kisses a girl in an elevator while he is being lobotomized.... Alas, nothing that interesting: It's just your standard black guy/white guy buddy movie, with Tim Robbins as an advertising executive out-of-control. Strange coincidences that somehow aren't that strange and sugar-coated family scenes add up to something so bland and forgettable that really, I am awake now and I can't remember the title. I'm going to go look it up.

--Richter

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