The spoiled brat Shelly drops out of school, her father dies of a heart attack, and mom nags away laying the blame on her–finally giving her the boot. ![]() The withdrawn lad walks the streets with a live hand-grenade in his pocket, as he contemplates suicide as an alternative to life. It’s about an unimaginable relationship between two misfits of different stripes, Adrienne Shelly as a high school student impregnated by the high school quarterback and Martin Donovan as an intellectually gifted unhappy electronics repairman and reform school grad with a record of violence. Hal Hartley (“The Unbelievable Truth”) directs and writes his second feature, also a black comedy romance/drama, as he returns to the same suburban Long Island location to once again delve into dysfunctional family life among both the working-class and middle-class. “It’s Woody Allen with gentile instead of Jewish neurotic characters.” MacKay (Jim Slaughter), Marko Hunt (John Coughlin), Suzanne Costollos (Rachel) Runtime: 107 MPAA Rating: R producers: Jerome Brownstein/Ted Hope/Bruce Weiss Fine Line Features 1990-UK/USA) (director/writer: Hal Hartley cinematographer: Michael Spiller editor: Nick Gomez music: Phil Reed cast: Adrienne Shelly (Maria Coughlin), Martin Donovan (Matthew Slaughter), Edie Falco (Peg Coughlin), Gary Sauer (Anthony), Matt Malloy (Ed), Merritt Nelson (Jean Coughlin), John A.
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