It is a rare joy these days to see real actors plying their craft before a Hollywood camera, but this film is full of amazing performances. It's disappointing that they didn't have a better vehicle. Billed as a homecoming, this film is more an anecdotal look at the daily lives of a family of Tennessee hillbillies, disjointed and without any connecting story line. There is an attempt to incorporate several subplots, but there's no story to hold it together. And the surreal attempt to tie things together in the last fifteen minutes just doesn't work at all and ends up emotionally empty. The overall feel is of looking through a family album of forgotten photographs just discovered in a dusty old trunk in the attic., certainly not worth a two hour commitment. The plot and writing is just hollow and unsatisfying. Really a shame that Kilmer, Yoakum, Kristofferson and Duff didn't have a better project under their feet.
Review of Bloodworth
