It seems the Archieverse is even more connected than we thought. On Feb. 21, Katy Keene's Lucy Hale was spotted out on a lunch date with Riverdale's Skeet Ulrich. During the meal, the 31-year-old actress was seen playfully holding hands with the 51-year-old actor across the table before leaning in for a kiss. Later on, the couple were photographed out on a stroll in Los Angeles, complete with masks.
It's unclear how the two connected, although it's entirely possible they met through their involvement in the "Archieverse"; during its fourth season, Riverdale shared a crossover episode with Katy Keene. Lucy was previously linked to The Bachelor's Colton Underwood, although he refuted the claims in August 2020. Most recently, Skeet dated model Megan Blake Irwin from May 2020 to September 2020. Prior to that, he was married to Georgina Cates - with whom he shares 19-year-old twins Jakob and Naiia - from 1997 to 2005 and...
It's unclear how the two connected, although it's entirely possible they met through their involvement in the "Archieverse"; during its fourth season, Riverdale shared a crossover episode with Katy Keene. Lucy was previously linked to The Bachelor's Colton Underwood, although he refuted the claims in August 2020. Most recently, Skeet dated model Megan Blake Irwin from May 2020 to September 2020. Prior to that, he was married to Georgina Cates - with whom he shares 19-year-old twins Jakob and Naiia - from 1997 to 2005 and...
- 2/22/2021
- by Grayson Gilcrease
- Popsugar.com
British screenwriter and playwright Charles Wood, known for such productions as “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” “Tumbledown” and “Iris,” has died at the age of 87.
His death, on Saturday, was confirmed to Variety by his agent Sue Rodgers at Independent Talent.
Born into a theater family, he began working in his local theater when he was a teen. After studying theatrical design at art college, he spent several years in the British army. After an assortment of jobs, he began to write professionally from 1959, with the completion of his play “Prisoner and Escort,” drawing on his army experience.
His first screenplay was 1965 comedy “The Knack … and How to Get It,” based on Anne Jellicoe’s play. Directed by Richard Lester, and starring Rita Tushingham and Michael Crawford, it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Wood was nominated for the BAFTA for British screenplay.
Among many films with Lester,...
His death, on Saturday, was confirmed to Variety by his agent Sue Rodgers at Independent Talent.
Born into a theater family, he began working in his local theater when he was a teen. After studying theatrical design at art college, he spent several years in the British army. After an assortment of jobs, he began to write professionally from 1959, with the completion of his play “Prisoner and Escort,” drawing on his army experience.
His first screenplay was 1965 comedy “The Knack … and How to Get It,” based on Anne Jellicoe’s play. Directed by Richard Lester, and starring Rita Tushingham and Michael Crawford, it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Wood was nominated for the BAFTA for British screenplay.
Among many films with Lester,...
- 2/5/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars and not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones they made in between.
Today we cross the pond to talk about Hugh Grant, the floppy-haired Brit who made his fortune in rom-coms and never felt great about it. Though he is in character actor mode now–currently in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen–we look back to the 90s and his stratospheric rise to stardom. Conor and I are joined by Joseph Galbo, a good friend and big-time film fan who does impressive work for the wonderfully bizarre Uscpsc, the social media account for the Us Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Our movies include the little-seen Mike Newell picture An Awfully Big Adventure, the incredibly charming The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain, the high concept Extreme Measures,...
Today we cross the pond to talk about Hugh Grant, the floppy-haired Brit who made his fortune in rom-coms and never felt great about it. Though he is in character actor mode now–currently in Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen–we look back to the 90s and his stratospheric rise to stardom. Conor and I are joined by Joseph Galbo, a good friend and big-time film fan who does impressive work for the wonderfully bizarre Uscpsc, the social media account for the Us Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Our movies include the little-seen Mike Newell picture An Awfully Big Adventure, the incredibly charming The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain, the high concept Extreme Measures,...
- 1/23/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Riverdale fans know Skeet Ulrich as Jughead Jones’ dad, Fp — but before he played the leader of the Southside Serpents on the CW series, the actor made a name for himself in ’90s movies like Scream and The Craft.
After 28 years in the business, Ulrich talks his career comeback and embracing a whole new generation of fans in this week’s issue of People, on newsstands now.
“ certainly has a rabid fan base,” says Ulrich, 47. “I arrived in Vancouver last month and had teenagers waiting to get pictures with me. It’s the strangest thing. I have kids their age!
After 28 years in the business, Ulrich talks his career comeback and embracing a whole new generation of fans in this week’s issue of People, on newsstands now.
“ certainly has a rabid fan base,” says Ulrich, 47. “I arrived in Vancouver last month and had teenagers waiting to get pictures with me. It’s the strangest thing. I have kids their age!
- 1/19/2018
- by Brianne Tracy
- PEOPLE.com
Skeet Ulrich is well-known for playing Jughead's dad on Riverdale and the psycho killer in Scream, but in real life, he's a huge family man. The 47-year-old actor is a loving dad to twins Naiia and Jakob, whom he shares with his ex-wife Georgina Cates. Aside from gushing about his 16-year-olds (and leaving sweet comments on their pages), he isn't shy about posting pictures of his girlfriend Rose Costa's precious little boy, William Luca Costa-Marsden, whom she shares with ex James Marsden. Small world, huh? See even more sweet pictures of Skeet's sweet little family ahead.
- 9/20/2017
- by Kelsie Gibson
- Popsugar.com
Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates, Kamber Hejlik, Jill Kill, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener | Written by Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville | Directed by Jeff Tremaine
One thing I wondered when watching Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa was how many of the “real” people were actually planted, call me cynical but it is something that you can’t help but think, especially when the joke seems to go a little too far. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 answers this question by not only revealing some of the scenes that never made it to the movie but also giving a glimpse behind the scenes of the film.
When I started to watch Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 I expected to be watching the film again but with the added scenes, but this is not what you get. This is more of a documentary looking at the making of the film and...
One thing I wondered when watching Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa was how many of the “real” people were actually planted, call me cynical but it is something that you can’t help but think, especially when the joke seems to go a little too far. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 answers this question by not only revealing some of the scenes that never made it to the movie but also giving a glimpse behind the scenes of the film.
When I started to watch Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 I expected to be watching the film again but with the added scenes, but this is not what you get. This is more of a documentary looking at the making of the film and...
- 7/13/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates, Kamber Hejlik, Jill Kill, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener | Written by Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville | Directed by Jeff Tremaine
If there is anything surprising about Jackass it’s that there is still life in the formula and Johnny Knoxville is still a part of it. The fact is though Bad Grandpa shows that the concept that actually still work and can evolve into something a little more substantial. Basing the stunts around two characters and sticking to a storyline may sound like a risky move, but surprisingly it works.
The story basic as it is sees Johnny Knoxville play the part of Irving Zisman who when his wife dies thinks he’s finally got his freedom and can do what he wants. When his daughter ends up in prison though he soon finds himself stuck with his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) who...
If there is anything surprising about Jackass it’s that there is still life in the formula and Johnny Knoxville is still a part of it. The fact is though Bad Grandpa shows that the concept that actually still work and can evolve into something a little more substantial. Basing the stunts around two characters and sticking to a storyline may sound like a risky move, but surprisingly it works.
The story basic as it is sees Johnny Knoxville play the part of Irving Zisman who when his wife dies thinks he’s finally got his freedom and can do what he wants. When his daughter ends up in prison though he soon finds himself stuck with his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) who...
- 3/3/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates, Kamber Hejlik, Jill Kill, Spike Jonze, Catherine Keener | Written by Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville | Directed by Jeff Tremaine
Everyone’s heard of the Jackass movies even if they haven’t seen them. Movies where people with an extremely high pain threshold put their minds and bodies to the test in various dares and pranks. These movies have been put to the test in the public’s eye as an interactive form of movie watching where the main characters (in what could almost be considered a documentary style) play pranks on the public and on each other and, so far, the films have been welcomed into society.
Bad Grandpa, the story of 85 year old Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville), a man whose wife just died, has been just as well received in the past few weeks as a new kind of Jackass movie…...
Everyone’s heard of the Jackass movies even if they haven’t seen them. Movies where people with an extremely high pain threshold put their minds and bodies to the test in various dares and pranks. These movies have been put to the test in the public’s eye as an interactive form of movie watching where the main characters (in what could almost be considered a documentary style) play pranks on the public and on each other and, so far, the films have been welcomed into society.
Bad Grandpa, the story of 85 year old Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville), a man whose wife just died, has been just as well received in the past few weeks as a new kind of Jackass movie…...
- 11/19/2013
- by Catherina Gioino
- Nerdly
Strip the danger out of "Borat" and the injuries out of "Jackass" and you've got a bead on "Bad Grandpa," a fitfully funny, semi-scripted "Jackass" outing built around elaborately staged pranks played on the unsuspecting.
Johnny Knoxville dons old-age makeup and becomes Irving Zisman, whom we meet at his wife's doctor's office.
"I thought she'd Never die."
Innocent bystanders give him a look.
At the funeral, a hired black church choir freaks out -- a bit -- at Irving's tasteless eulogy, and the mayhem with his crackhead daughter (Georgina Cates) that dumps the casket over in front of everybody.
A running gag in the movie: black people's nervousness around a corpse. Another running gag: Irving's racially tinged wisecracks to Hispanic store clerks, black cashiers and strip club fans and a fetching Asian woman his 8-year-old "grandson" (Jackson Nicoll) befriends somewhere around Nashville.
The crackhead daughter's dumped the kid on Grandpa.
Johnny Knoxville dons old-age makeup and becomes Irving Zisman, whom we meet at his wife's doctor's office.
"I thought she'd Never die."
Innocent bystanders give him a look.
At the funeral, a hired black church choir freaks out -- a bit -- at Irving's tasteless eulogy, and the mayhem with his crackhead daughter (Georgina Cates) that dumps the casket over in front of everybody.
A running gag in the movie: black people's nervousness around a corpse. Another running gag: Irving's racially tinged wisecracks to Hispanic store clerks, black cashiers and strip club fans and a fetching Asian woman his 8-year-old "grandson" (Jackson Nicoll) befriends somewhere around Nashville.
The crackhead daughter's dumped the kid on Grandpa.
- 10/24/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Jackass front man Johnny Knoxville resurrects Oap character Irving Zisman for his very own movie, Bad Grandpa. We first saw the 90-year-old’s high jinx back on MTV in 2001. He seems to be doing well and aging backwards as he’s now 86 years old in this – must be the fresh cheek of youth rubbing off on him from grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) who comes along for the ride. Fear not, this is Jackass with the crude knob turned down a touch but the odd toilet humour gag and latex prosthetics body parts are on show.
Zisman has just lost his wife, had his eight-year-old grandson he barely knows dumped on him by his junkie daughter Kimmy (Georgina Cates) who scarpers at Mum’s (co-writer Spike Jonze in drag) funeral to avoid doing jail-time, and is then forced to make the trip across America to hand his grandson over to his waster father he detests.
Zisman has just lost his wife, had his eight-year-old grandson he barely knows dumped on him by his junkie daughter Kimmy (Georgina Cates) who scarpers at Mum’s (co-writer Spike Jonze in drag) funeral to avoid doing jail-time, and is then forced to make the trip across America to hand his grandson over to his waster father he detests.
- 10/21/2013
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” which is rated “R” and opens on Oct. 25, 2013, also stars Spike Jonze, Jackson Nicoll, Georgina Cates, Blythe Barrington-Hughes, Kassidy Hejlik, Kamber Hejlik and Brittany Mumford from writer and director Jeff Tremaine and writers Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Fax Bahr and Adam Small. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
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“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” which is rated “R” and opens on Oct. 25, 2013, also stars Spike Jonze, Jackson Nicoll, Georgina Cates, Blythe Barrington-Hughes, Kassidy Hejlik, Kamber Hejlik and Brittany Mumford from writer and director Jeff Tremaine and writers Johnny Knoxville, Spike Jonze, Fax Bahr and Adam Small. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning!
- 10/19/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Showing some love to his Dutch fans, Johnny Knoxville showed up at a photocall for “Bad Grandpa” in Amsterdam, Netherlands today (October 7).
The “Jackass” star headed over to Sofitel The Grand Hotel all done up in full old man mode as he posed with fans and hammed it up for the press.
In the film, slated to hit theaters on October 25, Knoxville stars alongside Spike Jonze, Jackson Nicoll, and Georgina Cates.
Per the synopsis, “86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.”...
The “Jackass” star headed over to Sofitel The Grand Hotel all done up in full old man mode as he posed with fans and hammed it up for the press.
In the film, slated to hit theaters on October 25, Knoxville stars alongside Spike Jonze, Jackson Nicoll, and Georgina Cates.
Per the synopsis, “86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.”...
- 10/7/2013
- GossipCenter
Burt Reynolds and William Forsythe play a couple of middle-aged Miami-based hitmen whose target is the doppelganger of Hollywood hooker Angela (Georgina Cates). Fleeing from the hit, Angela and her musician/cabbie buddy Walter (Balthazar Getty) seeks sanctuary with a drug dealer and two bitching draq queens only for their gun-toting nemeses to turn up on the doorstep. Tarantino-style farcical violence from director Clive Fleury.
- 4/16/2013
- Sky Movies
Neve Campbell, one of the stars of the hit horror movie series Scream, quietly filed for divorce months ago, but she isn’t the first of those related to the film to do so. Is there a curse on the Scream cast?
Talk about your horror plot lines! It seems like if you step on the set of Scream, your relationship is headed for trouble. Neve Campbell’s divorce filing recently surfaced, but she isn’t the first cast member to have marital problems. Is there a curse on the horror franchise?
Just this year, three of the main cast members from the Kevin Williamson horror series have filed for divorce. True, two of them are divorcing each other, but still…a connection between marriage issues and the Scream franchise seems inevitable. Take a look at the list of cast members who have had love funerals. May their marriage, relationships,...
Talk about your horror plot lines! It seems like if you step on the set of Scream, your relationship is headed for trouble. Neve Campbell’s divorce filing recently surfaced, but she isn’t the first cast member to have marital problems. Is there a curse on the horror franchise?
Just this year, three of the main cast members from the Kevin Williamson horror series have filed for divorce. True, two of them are divorcing each other, but still…a connection between marriage issues and the Scream franchise seems inevitable. Take a look at the list of cast members who have had love funerals. May their marriage, relationships,...
- 12/2/2010
- by Kirstin Benson
- HollywoodLife
Ready to sub in at a moment’s notice, 8-year-old Jakob Dylan Ulrich posed with dad Skeet Ulrich at the Chelsea vs. Inter Milan match of the 2009 World Football Challenge in Pasadena, Calif., on July 21.
Jakob and his twin sister Naiia Rose are Skeet’s children with ex-wife Georgina Cates, whom he divorced in 2005 after eight years of marriage.
Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage Posted in Dads, Kids, Main, Multiples...
Jakob and his twin sister Naiia Rose are Skeet’s children with ex-wife Georgina Cates, whom he divorced in 2005 after eight years of marriage.
Jean Baptiste Lacroix/WireImage Posted in Dads, Kids, Main, Multiples...
- 7/28/2009
- by Missy
- People - CelebrityBabies
DVD Playhouse—June 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which...
By
Allen Gardner
The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which...
- 6/3/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Successful music video and commercial director David Dobkin, like bosses Ridley and Tony Scott before him, makes a notable feature debut with "Clay Pigeons", a quirky, darkly comedic thriller.
While the logistics of character motivation don't appear to be particularly embraced by fellow newcomer Matt Healy's playful script, the gathered ensemble of indie faves (including Janeane Garofalo, Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix) makes it all quite entertaining.
Recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Gramercy release should hit the specialty market target while establishing Dobkin as one to watch.
Set in the fictional, comatose town of Mercer, Mont., the seamy intrigue kicks in early with laconic protagonist Clay Bidwell (Phoenix) finding himself staring into a gun barrel being trained on him by his best buddy Earl (Gregory Sporleder). Seems Earl has some pretty convincing evidence that Clay's been carrying on with his very willing wife, but rather than kill him, he plans to use Clay's gun to do himself in, thereby intending to frame him for his apparent murder.
With Earl having successfully carried out his deed, the panic-stricken Clay runs to the newly widowed Amanda (Georgina Cates) for help, but she makes it very clear she wants no part in the whole situation other than to resume their Wednesday afternoon trysts. Left to his own devices, Clay will make the first of many bad decisions.
Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, along comes Lester Long (Vaughn), a swaggering James Dean wannabe with a greasy, ingratiating manner and a fake laugh who's intent on being Clay's new best friend at any cost.
Meanwhile, astute FBI Agent Dale Shelby (Garofalo) has been sniffing around investigating the disappearances of a number of local women, and despite assurances to the contrary from the fatherly town sheriff (Scott Wilson), Clay's looking to be a prime suspect.
While Healy's script ultimately offers surprisingly few surprises, there's a nicely warped sense of irrelevance to the proceedings -- a body pops up in the middle of a fishing expedition with a minimum of histrionics; the narcoleptic sheriff's deputy (Vince Vieluf) is actually named Deputy Barney -- that keep things blackly amusing.
Among the standout performances in the uniformly able cast are heavies Vaughn and Cates, who play their nasty characters with relish. Vaughn lays on the smarm factor thickly while actress Cates ("An Awfully Big Adventure") sheds her customarily refined British accent for her take-no-prisoners, cold-hearted hussy role.
Behind-the-camera, music videographer-turned-cinematographer Eric Edwards ("To Die For", "Cop Land") bathes the picture in what can best be described as sun-drenched noir. Composer John Lurie's idiosyncratic score blends nicely with the similarly eclectic song selection by Mary Ramos and Michelle Kuznetsky, which runs the gamut from Pat Boone and Elvis Presley to Lyle Lovett and Sister Hazel.
CLAY PIGEONS
Gramercy
Director: David Dobkin
Screenwriter: Matt Healy
Producers: Ridley Scott, Chris Zarpas
Executive producers: Tony Scott, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Eric Edwards
Production designer: Clark Hunter
Editor: Stan Salfas
Costume designer: Laura Goldsmith
Music supervisors: Mary Ramos, Michelle Kuznetsky
Music: Rod Lurie
Casting: Risa Bramon Garcia, Randi Hiller
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lester Long: Vince Vaughn
FBI Agent Dale Shelby: Janeane Garofalo
Clay Bidwell: Joaquin Phoenix
Amanda: Georgina Cates
Sheriff Mooney: Scott Wilson
Earl: Gregory Sporleder
Deputy Barney: Vince Vieluf
Agent Reynard: Phil Morris
Running time -- 104 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
While the logistics of character motivation don't appear to be particularly embraced by fellow newcomer Matt Healy's playful script, the gathered ensemble of indie faves (including Janeane Garofalo, Vince Vaughn and Joaquin Phoenix) makes it all quite entertaining.
Recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Gramercy release should hit the specialty market target while establishing Dobkin as one to watch.
Set in the fictional, comatose town of Mercer, Mont., the seamy intrigue kicks in early with laconic protagonist Clay Bidwell (Phoenix) finding himself staring into a gun barrel being trained on him by his best buddy Earl (Gregory Sporleder). Seems Earl has some pretty convincing evidence that Clay's been carrying on with his very willing wife, but rather than kill him, he plans to use Clay's gun to do himself in, thereby intending to frame him for his apparent murder.
With Earl having successfully carried out his deed, the panic-stricken Clay runs to the newly widowed Amanda (Georgina Cates) for help, but she makes it very clear she wants no part in the whole situation other than to resume their Wednesday afternoon trysts. Left to his own devices, Clay will make the first of many bad decisions.
Just when it seems things couldn't get any worse, along comes Lester Long (Vaughn), a swaggering James Dean wannabe with a greasy, ingratiating manner and a fake laugh who's intent on being Clay's new best friend at any cost.
Meanwhile, astute FBI Agent Dale Shelby (Garofalo) has been sniffing around investigating the disappearances of a number of local women, and despite assurances to the contrary from the fatherly town sheriff (Scott Wilson), Clay's looking to be a prime suspect.
While Healy's script ultimately offers surprisingly few surprises, there's a nicely warped sense of irrelevance to the proceedings -- a body pops up in the middle of a fishing expedition with a minimum of histrionics; the narcoleptic sheriff's deputy (Vince Vieluf) is actually named Deputy Barney -- that keep things blackly amusing.
Among the standout performances in the uniformly able cast are heavies Vaughn and Cates, who play their nasty characters with relish. Vaughn lays on the smarm factor thickly while actress Cates ("An Awfully Big Adventure") sheds her customarily refined British accent for her take-no-prisoners, cold-hearted hussy role.
Behind-the-camera, music videographer-turned-cinematographer Eric Edwards ("To Die For", "Cop Land") bathes the picture in what can best be described as sun-drenched noir. Composer John Lurie's idiosyncratic score blends nicely with the similarly eclectic song selection by Mary Ramos and Michelle Kuznetsky, which runs the gamut from Pat Boone and Elvis Presley to Lyle Lovett and Sister Hazel.
CLAY PIGEONS
Gramercy
Director: David Dobkin
Screenwriter: Matt Healy
Producers: Ridley Scott, Chris Zarpas
Executive producers: Tony Scott, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair
Director of photography: Eric Edwards
Production designer: Clark Hunter
Editor: Stan Salfas
Costume designer: Laura Goldsmith
Music supervisors: Mary Ramos, Michelle Kuznetsky
Music: Rod Lurie
Casting: Risa Bramon Garcia, Randi Hiller
Color/stereo
Cast:
Lester Long: Vince Vaughn
FBI Agent Dale Shelby: Janeane Garofalo
Clay Bidwell: Joaquin Phoenix
Amanda: Georgina Cates
Sheriff Mooney: Scott Wilson
Earl: Gregory Sporleder
Deputy Barney: Vince Vieluf
Agent Reynard: Phil Morris
Running time -- 104 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 9/17/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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