Flashbacks of a Fool
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Flashbacks of a Fool
starring: Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Eve, Olivia Williams, Emile Robert
directed by: Baillie Walsh
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Fox
EAN: 0013131609394
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
MPN: 013131609394
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 04, 2008
Running Time: 110 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
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Editorial Review:Product Description:A celebrity who has wasted his life and fame on drugs and sex finds his life changed forever when he learns that his childhood friend has suddenly die
Amazon.com:Leading man Daniel Craig apparently made
Flashbacks of a Fool (he was also one of the executive producers) in between stints as James Bond, and you can see why he was attracted to it; Joe Scott, the character he portrays in this film, could hardly be less like the suave, ever-resourceful 007. Ensconced in a fab, oceanfront Malibu crib, Joe is a movie star on the skids. Hooked on coke and drink, engaging in group gropes with dumb Hollywood bimbos, he’s sunk so low that his sassy assistant (Eve) calls him "a disgrace to white folks," and even his agent is sick of him, which is somewhat akin to a parasite dissing its host (it’s a measure of writer-director Baillie Walsh’s script’s lack of depth that we never really see what made Joe so great in the first place, or so bad now). When a call comes that a childhood friend has died, Joe decides to return to his native England for the funeral, whereupon an extended flashback kicks in. Young Joe (Harry Eden), it seems, was as randy and hopelessly naïve as a lot of teenage boys. Though he had the hots for the sexiest young thang in town (a coastal village that’s as lovely in its way as the California setting, both of them handsomely photographed by cinematographer John Mathieson; the locations, in fact, are probably the most attractive element of the film), he also wasn’t immune to the advances of Evelyn (Jodhi May), the older married woman who lives next door. And when a tragedy involving Evelyn’s daughter struck while she and Joe were
in flagrante, Joe handled it by leaving town, never to return--until now, that is. He discovers that his late pal’s widow is the same young girl Joe’d had his eye on, but otherwise his homecoming is a strangely muted affair; not a lot happens, which pretty much applies to the film overall. In the end,
Flashbacks of a Fool has its touching moments, but it might have turned out better had it been both shaken
and stirred.
--Sam Graham Stills from Flashbacks of a Fool (Click for larger image)
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