Skip to main content

Outside In (film with Edie Falco) 50%

Set in Granite Falls, WA.  Chris gets out of jail because of the work of his high school teacher, Edie Falco.  He was a participant in a murder, but not the murderer and not even aware a gun was involved.

Falco has miserable marriage; Chris is in love with her. She's in love with him.

Will she leave her husband?  Chris is hanging out with her daughter--will he end up with her?  Chris is miserable, trying without much success to get his life back in order.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Netflix Lincoln Lawyer

 Just a long yawner.  Acting was fine; there just wasn't nearly enough plot to carry 10 episodes.  Tech guy accused of killing wife.  LL takes on the case after the tech lawyer's first lawyer is murdered.  Mickey Haller gets the guy off . . . trick is the guy is guilty.  He used a drone to dispose of bloody clothes.  Subplot Maggy McFierce trying to get a conviction of a human trafficker.  She loses but then wins.  The divorced couple almost gets back together, but they are on opposite sides of the adversarial process and work comes first.  Won't be in a hurry to watch Season 2

Live and Let Die

 The Fleming book, flawed by 50's racism, moves along in plot and character.  Fleming is an excellent writer--great descriptive powers and pacing. The movie has no redeeming qualities.  All that's left from the book is the racism, and in the book you can feel Fleming's doubts about his racist scenes slipping in.  In the movie (made years later), the racism is incredible.  1972.  Those who say no progress has been made should watch this.  Impossible to imagine this film being made today.