Movie review.

[saxikath]

Last night I went to the Boston premiere of Heights (as I mentioned in an earlier post). Now, it's not possible for me to be objective about this movie; it was written by a woman I've known since she was born. Her family and mine were next-door neighbors all through my childhood, and they might as well be family themselves.

That said, I recommend the movie very much. It's a drama about one day in the interconnected lives of several New Yorkers, led by Glenn Close and Elizabeth Banks as a famed actress and her daughter. Some aspects of the plot are a little obvious; you can see certain developments coming. But the performances are excellent, and, while I'm biased, I do think Amy Fox (the writer) has a real gift for capturing the ways people talk. (ACRONYMians out there: Amy's the younger sister of our teammate David Fox.)

Those of you who live in or have connections to New York would, I think, particularly like it. It's in some ways very much a New York movie; one of the characters makes a remark about how six degrees of separation is more like two in New York, and you get that feeling in the movie.

Anyway, I encourage everyone to go see it. In Boston, it's playing at the Kendall Theater (and possibly other places, I don't know). It will be opening around the country in the next week or so, if it hasn't opened where you are yet.

Comments

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

Did you meet Glenn Close?

[saxikath]

Alas, no... Amy was the only person creatively involved with the film who was there. There were a couple of investor types too, but that was it.

[ennienyc.livejournal.com]

I've always maintained that New York is actually like a small town. It's not the huge impersonal city it's often made out to be.

Congratulations to Amy - you'll really be able to say you "knew her when." I'm sorry I didn't go to the New York premiere. I've vowed to "get out more," but so far haven't been very good about it.