Another Day In Paradise
by Larry Clark
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Actor: James Otis, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Vincent KartheiserDirector: Larry Clark
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: James Woods
Producer: Larry Clark
Producer: Scott Shiffman
Producer: Stephen Chin
Writer: Stephen Chin
Writer: Christopher Landon
Writer: Eddie Little
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 101 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-05-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Another Day In Paradise
Movie Review: FASCINATING ACTING AT THE EDGE TO DISTURB/ENTERTAIN US
Summary: 5 Stars
Those who marvel at Olympic giant slalom skiing, or a virtuoso violinist or piamist playing at the edge of the instrument, or a race car driver leading the pack at the Indianapolis 500 ... or the Le Mans will be fascinated at what James Woods and Melanie Griffith put on screen in ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE. Having seen most of James Woods' films, and SALVADOR several times, I was on the edge of my seat watching Woods do what he does best: play a homocidal crook on the edge of an emotional explosion at each turn. Melanie Griffith is no slouch either in this movie where she is the gun Moll and lover of the man who she can barely live with and love. Then there are the two loser kids, superbly played by Vincent Kartheise and Natasha Gregson Wagner. "Adopting" the drugged out and oversexed young lovers, Griffith and Woods act as mentors in crime and surrogate parents as the "family" leaves a trail of blood in their violent trade.
Definitely, this is not a movie for children or even adolescents. The graphic drug, sex and violent scenes are all necessary for realistically carrying the film through to its logical conclusion. The film is about a group of dysfunctional people whose life of crime is pursued in an almost tenderly family setting. The young people desperately need parenting, while the characters played by Griffith and Woods hover and brood over their "children" trying to teach them how to live in the river of crime that this "family" wades through.
One of my favorite Woods scenes comes near the end in the car at a rural filling station. As everything in his life begins to unravel, Woods launches into such extreme paroxisms of rage and frustration that we the audience can feel, in his fit he's about to jump out of the screen and tear up our living room. That was a spectacular scene rivaling many of his legendary ones in SALVADOR.
Some people may not be able to stand the vehicle filmmaker Larry Clark uses for dragging us through the grotesquely twisted criminalized lives of two young druggies and their murderous elders. The repeated use of extreme expletives by the characters is necessary because these are people who are verbally inarticulate, and "need" to express themselves with an intensity that moves them to use weapons for self expression. I think viewed this way, the film makes sense. Otherwise, it will burn your ears off, offend your eyes and you'll not wish to see and hear any of it.
Melanie Griffith was very good but James Woods is absolutely great. Acting in a film of this genre cannot garner Academy Awards for those who made this movie. Nevertheless, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE must be seen by fans of these gifted American actors.
Summary of Another Day In Paradise
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE - DVD MovieHaving apparently anointed himself the American cinema's poet of decadence, filmmaker Larry Clark follows his critically acclaimed Kids with yet another tour through the darker regions of American squalor. Another Day in Paradise--even the title screams of amateurish irony--may be powerfully acted by a fine cast of new and familiar faces, but how many times can we eavesdrop on the lives of murderous, self-destructive heroin junkie thieves before we just get morosely depressed? James Woods and Melanie Griffith are superb as a pair of surrogate parents to the young couple (Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner) whom they recruit as accomplices in a series of robberies and dangerous deals, but what exactly is the point of this overindulgent, gutter-mouthed, and ultimately sickening portrait of sickening people? Clark may be good at providing an authentic vision of America's ugly underbelly, but before this movie's half over you're likely to be screaming, "Enough already!" By the time Kartheiser's character has finally escaped from his dreadful "parents," it's clear that Clark has very little story to tell, and not much of it is really worth telling. As for why Woods's character gets such a kick out of saying "Boo-Yah!"--well, your guess is as good as ours. --Jeff Shannon
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