Sweet Thing (1999)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

Mark David

Writers:

Mark David (writer)
Mark Spacek (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A young artist's success with controversial paintings clashes with his father's political hopes. |

Plot Keywords:

Artist | Politician | Prostitute | Male Frontal Nudity | Painter

Cast

Jeremy Fox	...	Sean Fields
Amalia Stifter	...	Hannah
Ev Lunning	...	Judge Ray Fields
Lana Dieterich	...	Vivian Fields
Michael Dalmon	...	Weiss
Evan Greenwalt	...	Young Sean Fields
Stephen Bruton	...	Davie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Seamus Callahan	...	Watts
Tom Chamberlain	...	Art show currator
Mark David	...	Richard
Tim Dillard	...	Bradley (Cap-Head)
LaDon Drummond	...	Reporter
Simon Fisher-Becker	...	Klaus
Kelvin Girdy	...	Mr. Green
Tony Hewett	...	Ian Cambell Frasier
K. Todd Lytle	...	Judges Supporter
Maryanne McIlravy	...	Cole's Girlfriend
Bill McMillin	...	J. Harrison
Brent Mitchell	...	Cap Head
Pete Pickerell	...	Cole
Bob Richardson	...	Larry Larson
Maurice Ripke	...	Museum Curator
Mark Spacek	...	Gregory
Paul Taegel	...	Cap-Head
Ryan Wickerham	...	Cap Head

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, violence, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

JAM Pictures

Trivia:

Production of this film cost roughly $60,000.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Puffy Chair (2005)

Suffering artist vs. politician Dad

Whew! This overwrought film about an emotionally damaged artist whose controversial work embarrasses his Dad, a judge now running for Congress, is a chore to watch.

The movie was meant to be grittily realistic, but couldn't overcome the two-dimensional nature of the main characters. The Dad was a caricature, an insanely ambitious, deceitful, and hypocritical politician. The son was a caricature, too -- an artist who must tell the truth through his art and suffers mightily for his brutal honesty -- a put-upon martyr and saint.

Exhausting, totally exhausting.