I wanted to see RECKLESS since very long because it always looked like a weird comedy and I have a thing for these sort of movies but since its bad score of 5,1 and mostly negative reviews I avoided for all these years... until last June when I finally gave it a try and as I expected it was great fun tho not for everyone as it's very weird.
It begins on Christmas Eve when Rachel (Mia Farrow) and her husband Tom FitzSimons (Tony Goldwyn) are hearing Christmas carols on TV and Tom has a confession: he hired a contract killer for killing Rachel so that Tom could have all her money. So Rachel escapes and stumbles upon Lloyd Buftalofty (Scott Glenn), a social worker that lives with his deaf and disabled wife Pooty (Mary Louise Parker). Rachel moves in with the couple and works with Lloyd at the charitable organization Hands Across the Sea. Soon Rachel discovers that Lloyd and Pooty hide secrets as well: Lloyd destroyed and abandoned a family, and Pooty fakes her disability for having ease and comfort. Rachel will meet lots of other crazy characters and will cause the deaths of his husband Tom and Pooty (poisoned), Lloyd (chocked by the cork of his champagne bottle when he tried to open it with his teeth) and will end in a shelter for the homeless run by sister Margaret, who has her dark secrets as well...
The movie is very strange, and I think that the director worked hard for making it the weirdest and strangest possible. Needless to say I appreciated the style. Everybody (Farrow, Glenn, Goldwyn, Parker, Giancarlo Esposito, Stephen Dorff and William Ficthner) acted very good and it looked like they had lot of fun, tho the ending was a bit confusing I admit it.
Not to be missed if you are into weird movies or forgotten star-studded rarities tho I have to warn sensible viewers that there are some graphic moments so if you can't stand them you might think twice before watching it.
It begins on Christmas Eve when Rachel (Mia Farrow) and her husband Tom FitzSimons (Tony Goldwyn) are hearing Christmas carols on TV and Tom has a confession: he hired a contract killer for killing Rachel so that Tom could have all her money. So Rachel escapes and stumbles upon Lloyd Buftalofty (Scott Glenn), a social worker that lives with his deaf and disabled wife Pooty (Mary Louise Parker). Rachel moves in with the couple and works with Lloyd at the charitable organization Hands Across the Sea. Soon Rachel discovers that Lloyd and Pooty hide secrets as well: Lloyd destroyed and abandoned a family, and Pooty fakes her disability for having ease and comfort. Rachel will meet lots of other crazy characters and will cause the deaths of his husband Tom and Pooty (poisoned), Lloyd (chocked by the cork of his champagne bottle when he tried to open it with his teeth) and will end in a shelter for the homeless run by sister Margaret, who has her dark secrets as well...
The movie is very strange, and I think that the director worked hard for making it the weirdest and strangest possible. Needless to say I appreciated the style. Everybody (Farrow, Glenn, Goldwyn, Parker, Giancarlo Esposito, Stephen Dorff and William Ficthner) acted very good and it looked like they had lot of fun, tho the ending was a bit confusing I admit it.
Not to be missed if you are into weird movies or forgotten star-studded rarities tho I have to warn sensible viewers that there are some graphic moments so if you can't stand them you might think twice before watching it.