Stockton, California, the late 1950s; twenty-nine-year-old Jimmy Tully (Stacy Keach, marvelous), a washed-up palooka who once showed promise in the ring, befriends also-white eighteen-year-old Ernie Minger (Jeff Bridges, the least gifted of his clan, minimally effective here), whose brief career as a prize fighter lies ahead of him. As Jimmy puts it, Ernie is “soft […]
Daily Archives: September 3, 2009
Suwarôteiru is a punishingly long, flimsy, melodramatic saga of despised immigrants who have come to Japan in hopes of bettering their lot but who struggle to survive in an industrial slum. “Never let yourself go cheap,” prostitute Glico advises a newly arrived innocent who, orphaned, never has even known her own name. Glico names her […]
Dennis Grunes 