John Cusack Film Fest Movie #8
Synopsis: At some point, John Kelso (Cusack) says: “it’s like Gone with the Wind on mescaline”…actually,
that’s not bad.
Blurb From the VHS
Jacket: “The most important party of the Savannah Christmas season is at
that genteel town’s most elegant home. Black tie. Bluebloods. Then bang!
Affable host Jim Williams shoots a man to death. The party is over, the mystery
begins.”
What Did I Learn?: Savannah Georgia is apparently deep in the
heart of voodoo country. Who knew?
You Might Like This
Movie If: You want to party with some of Savannah's swankiest citizens.
Really?: 1) Holy
shit, is everyone in Savannah some sort of bizarre weirdo? 2) Wouldn’t at least
some of Savannah’s African American population already know about the Lady
Chablis?
Rating: Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil is an entertaining courtroom drama that gets a little
overloaded with Southern gothic. Cusack plays a likeable bloke (in many movies,
he’s the calm, normal protagonist who’s surrounded by strange people and this
is no exception), and Kevin Spacey is quite good as the urbane antique dealer,
Jim Williams. While I like this film, Clint Eastwood went overboard with wacky
characters (Eastwood pal Geoffrey Lewis plays scientist who’s surrounded by
horseflies – I still don’t know why he’s in this movie), scenes that don’t work
and a romance between Cusack and Alison Eastwood that seems tacked-on. 7/10
stars.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119668/
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