The story's hero (played by Jim Metzler) has lost much of his spine and the love of his life, due to cancer. He's in remission; but decimated in body, shattered in mind, and separated from ...
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| Jim Metzler | ... | Richard / Rick Stone | |
| Victor Love | ... | Bobby / The Black Chinaman | |
| Kay Lenz | ... | Peep / Madge | |
| Norma Maldonado | ... | Adele / Bunny | |
| John Ritter | ... | Duncan / The Bartender | |
| Andrea Thompson | ... | The Blonde / Jade Norfleet | |
| Billy Bob Thornton | ... | Syd / Monk | |
| Paul Parducci | ... | Bear / Petrovich | |
| Paula Marshall | ... | Deborah / Girl In Photograph | |
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Vann Johnson | ... | The Singer |
| Time Winters | ... | Ed / Catalina Eddie | |
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The story's hero (played by Jim Metzler) has lost much of his spine and the love of his life, due to cancer. He's in remission; but decimated in body, shattered in mind, and separated from inner\spiritual peace. Richard uses "object therapy" suggested by his lifelong pal (John Ritter)to project his consciousness into an alternative reality, where he becomes "Rick Stone" - a soft-hearted, tough acting, Private Dick (P.I.) It is here that he works through his existential fight to survive and transcend life. Written by DRory
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June 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Ase, auto ja blondi See more »Filming Locations:
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This is an entertaining combination of "real life drama" and a superb comic book detective story woven together by the fervent imagination of a man suffering acute pain from his terminal cancer. Turning his mind to these thoughts takes him away from personal pain and transmits it to the character in his fabulously standard format PI Show. Made up from the real events in his own life inserting the actual people who surround him in real life into the roles of the characters in his make-believe life that he escapes to. This world of fantasy is black and white. A dying man seeing absolutes.
As for the movie itself I thought some acting could have been better in the real world parts as opposed to the make-believe world which was meant to be cheesy. But it wasn't bad enough to spoil a good entertaining show that you wouldn't be worried about putting on to watch with your gran and I can't recall any swearing either. So there probably wasn't a lot. Must watch it again one day soon.