An average movie

The interesting thing about Jonathan Demme is how diverse his career has been. Indeed, his biggest critical and financial success must have been ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ but he has never done anything similar before or after. His previous directing effort was ‘Philadelphia’ which was also quite successful and also something wildly different. Still, diversity is not always a guarantee of success and, for example, ‘The Truth About Charlie’ was a massive failure (it is rightfully considered by Mark Wahlberg as his worst movie) and I also had a hard time with this one as well. The point is that it wasn’t actually really bad, there was a nice cast (Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter) and they all delivered some decent performances but, to be honest, I didn’t care much about these characters and what they were going through. I guess they wanted to display what was the life in the US in the 40’s during the war but, to be honest, I thought it was actually seriously tedious to behold. Eventually, the most remarkable thing about this flick is that Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell fell in love while making this movie and, after 30 years, they are still together, which is quite amazing in Hollywood. To conclude, even though it is nothing really awful, I didn’t like much this movie and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10