With Honours
BB
(out of 5)
College melodrama where students are taught to break the rules by an unorthodox guru. This time the mastermind in question is a free-spirited homeless man (Joe Pesci) who gets the youngsters at the campus near where he lives to see education and, eventually the whole world, in a new light. Brendan Fraser and Moira Kelly are among the fresh faces in the cast of this entirely predictable soaper that should probably be avoided by all except the impressionable teen crowd who still find this kind of material surprising. The film is directed by Alek Keshishian, who shot to fame directing Madonna’s rockumentary Truth Or Dare (here the Queen of Pop contributes an original song).
USA, 1994
Directed by Alek Keshishian
Screenplay by William Mastrosimone
Cinematography by Sven Nykvist
Produced by Amy Robinson, Paula Weinstein
Music by Patrick Leonard
Production Design by Barbara Ling
Costume Design by Renee Ehrlich Kalfus
Film Editing by Michael R. Miller
Cast Tags: Brendan Fraser,Caroline Gibson, Claudia Haro, Clebert Ford, Daniel Blinkoff, Deborah Lake Fortson, Frank J. Tieri, Gore Vidal, Harve Kolzow, Holly Wenz-Nolan,James Deuter, Joe Pesci, Josh Hamilton, Kurt Clauss, M. Lynda Robinson, Mara Brock Akil, Marshall Hambro, Mary Seibel, Melinda Chilton, Moira Kelly, Monica Rochman, Patricia B. Butcher, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Auguste, Richard Bednar, Rick Le Fevour, Shanesia Davis-Williams, Sunshine H. Hernandez, William Ashby King
Golden Globe Award Nomination
Best Original Song-Motion Picture (“I’ll Remember”, music and lyrics by Patrick Leonard, Madonna, Richard Page)
