When I ran across this movie on Tubi of all places I was thinking along the lines of Mad Love, another Barrymore movie. I was definitely mistaken on that assumption. I adore Barrymore in anything she does. With her quirky attitude and genuine anything is possible outlook what's not to like.
With Anita, the whole white trash, mom gone so boyfriend abuses circumstances automatically making her the town slut didn't sit well. One does not naturally equate to the other. Howard was very forgettable as soon as he stepped off the bus. Perfect example, when trying to find money for food, Anita and Howard notice their car is about to be towed. After failing to get the tow driver to realase the car, he pulls out a gun and mumbles something blah blah I'll blow you away. The delivery was such that a viewer may laugh or posdibly feel sympathy for the other cast members and director.
This movie is easy to pass up as you wouldn't be missing much. But it's also perfect for background noise on any kind of lazy day. The fact that you don't have to actively watch the movie to figure out what's happened should you decide to is ridiculous. That fact is also a true testament of a crappy script that should have stayed in a drawer. The director, Tamara Davis, stated in an interview that her direction did not include the desire to romanticize the gun. She stated, "I wanted to show that America is obsessed with guns, and that if you have them around, bad things can happen because it only takes a second to pull the trigger. Well, Im sorry for Director Davis as this film was an ultimate failure in capturing and meeting that goal. It would be like the director of Natural Born Killers insisting the desire to not romanticize psycho behaviors or murder spree killing.
When making a movie about guns, shooting people and lots of killing you have to own both sides of the possible outcome or fallout after public viewing. The director's failure to do so left me with a different type of dislike for this movie overall. Definitely something other than just a viewer's opinion of dislike for an overly bad movie.
With Anita, the whole white trash, mom gone so boyfriend abuses circumstances automatically making her the town slut didn't sit well. One does not naturally equate to the other. Howard was very forgettable as soon as he stepped off the bus. Perfect example, when trying to find money for food, Anita and Howard notice their car is about to be towed. After failing to get the tow driver to realase the car, he pulls out a gun and mumbles something blah blah I'll blow you away. The delivery was such that a viewer may laugh or posdibly feel sympathy for the other cast members and director.
This movie is easy to pass up as you wouldn't be missing much. But it's also perfect for background noise on any kind of lazy day. The fact that you don't have to actively watch the movie to figure out what's happened should you decide to is ridiculous. That fact is also a true testament of a crappy script that should have stayed in a drawer. The director, Tamara Davis, stated in an interview that her direction did not include the desire to romanticize the gun. She stated, "I wanted to show that America is obsessed with guns, and that if you have them around, bad things can happen because it only takes a second to pull the trigger. Well, Im sorry for Director Davis as this film was an ultimate failure in capturing and meeting that goal. It would be like the director of Natural Born Killers insisting the desire to not romanticize psycho behaviors or murder spree killing.
When making a movie about guns, shooting people and lots of killing you have to own both sides of the possible outcome or fallout after public viewing. The director's failure to do so left me with a different type of dislike for this movie overall. Definitely something other than just a viewer's opinion of dislike for an overly bad movie.