BB

(out of 5)

A messy comedy about a fast-food restaurant employee (Drew Barrymore) who is pregnant with a married man’s child, and becomes the target of his stepsons after they murder him and she accidentally overhears it. Unfortunately, one of the stepsons (Luke Wilson, who was engaged to Barrymore at the time) falls in love with her while getting the job done and all sorts of entanglements ensue. Like any movie she’s in, Barrymore gives a warmhearted and memorable performance, but the plot wanders around so much in search of a spine and the direction is just so vacant that she can only look bad in the end. Catherine O’Hara is wonderful in a supporting role as the twisted mother of the two killers.

USA, 1998

Directed by Dean Parisot

Screenplay by Vince Gilligan

Cinematography by Jerzy Zielinski

Produced by Mark Johnson, Lawrence Kasdan, Barry Levinson, Charles Newirth

Music by Rachel Portman

Production Design by Barry Robison

Costume Design by Jill M. Ohanneson

Film Editing by Nicholas C. Smith

Film Festivals:  TIFF 1998

Cast Tags:  Blue Deckert, Brady Coleman, Catherine O’Hara, Chris Ellis, Daryl Mitchell, Drew Barrymore, Jake Busey, Jean Donatto, Jill Parker-Jones, John Hawkes, Kim Robillard, Lanny Flaherty, Luke Wilson, Marco Perella, Mark Walters, Meason Wiley, Mona Lee Fultz, Morgana Shaw, Robert Graham, Shane Steiner, Shelley Duvall, Theresa Merritt, Zachary Moore, Zeke Mills