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Murdered Innocence (1996)
I worked on this film FOR FREE. I KNEW it would suck before we wrapped.
I was a Freshman at Hofstra University when the production used our soundstage for some of it's scenes. I volunteered that summer to work on the film while Seniors were getting credit for it. Fred Carpenter's mother broke a glass in the kitchen during the bar scene and TOLD me to clean it up. I asked her who she was. In a melodramatic way, she literally raised her nose up and said, "I'm MRS. Carpenter." I rolled my eyes and walked away. (Sorry. I've always wanted to get that off my chest.) Lady, your son was making a really bad B movie. You hadn't "arrived." They didn't even credit me. Thank God. Dumbest film I've ever worked on.
The Lake House (2006)
Great to see Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves together again
First, while she has picked her share of films that aren't deserving of her, I would love Sandra Bullock if she played a piece of poop. She is so NOT Hollywood. I'd say she is a star as stars used to be, pre 90's.
Keanu Reeves, like someone mentioned in another review, is not a flashy actor. He doesn't pull the ego and ATTEMPT to charm like say, Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt. He's understated. He gives the lines their equally deserved limelight. He's got the right combination of star quality and the actor's actor factor going that I respect him more than Cruise or Pitt.
The screenplay? Do you we always want everything spelled out for us? I don't. It's fun to draw my own conclusions to the message or point or metaphor. The lake house was about connecting. Bullock and Reeves certainly did. Again. Without the bus or the train. Love them.
Michael Self Los Angeles CA (via Siloam Springs, Arkansas; via New York NY)