In the new buzzworthy film "Drive," Ryan Gosling plays a fearless stunt driver who completes dangerous movie stunts in the blink of the eye. It's hard to believe that the actor portraying this tough-as-nails character was once a teenage Fraidy Cat in a Frankenstein movie.
That's right -- long before Gosling was making audiences swoon in the "Notebook," cry in "Blue Valentine" and laugh in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," the actor was making them cringe in the long-forgotten 1997 film "Frankenstein and Me."
Why have you never heard of "Frankenstein and Me" -- a thriller about a 12-year-old boy (Jamieson Boulanger) who is obsessed with the idea of reviving Frankenstein from the dead? Probably because it is a subpar Canadian film whose only "star" at the time was Burt Reynolds. Still! Ryan Gosling was in it and every Gosling title, especially the obscure '90s titles, are worth excavating.
In the early '90s,...
That's right -- long before Gosling was making audiences swoon in the "Notebook," cry in "Blue Valentine" and laugh in "Crazy, Stupid, Love," the actor was making them cringe in the long-forgotten 1997 film "Frankenstein and Me."
Why have you never heard of "Frankenstein and Me" -- a thriller about a 12-year-old boy (Jamieson Boulanger) who is obsessed with the idea of reviving Frankenstein from the dead? Probably because it is a subpar Canadian film whose only "star" at the time was Burt Reynolds. Still! Ryan Gosling was in it and every Gosling title, especially the obscure '90s titles, are worth excavating.
In the early '90s,...
- 9/18/2011
- by Julie Miller
- NextMovie
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