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FLESH AND BONE
Directed by Steven Kloves; with Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, James Caan,
and Gwenyth Paltrow.
1993
ilmed
all over Central and West Texas, Flesh and Bone is a stormy film
that follows Arlis Sweeney (Quaid), a loner with a vending machine business
and a terrible secret from his past, as he makes the statewide deliveries
that have become his way of forgetting about the childhood spent with
his evil father (Caan). But his ritual is soon interrupted when he meets
love interest Kay (Ryan), and discovers their paths have crossed before.
The opening scene of this film is one of the most chilling I've seen,
and there's nice writing all around. As a man with such a tragic past,
it would have been nice to see a little more of what makes our quirky
protagonist tick, but he manages the role of a Texas archetype -- the
cowboy riding and hiding his pain -- just fine. Texas flavor is strong
in bar scenes filled with domino playing, Hill Country shots of horseback
riding and swimming, beautiful big-sky landscapes, and a romantic two-step
in an empty honky-tonk with Willie on the vintage juke. Don't expect
a happy ending, but our hero does drive off into the sunset.
ilmed
all over Central and West Texas, Flesh and Bone is a stormy film
that follows Arlis Sweeney (Quaid), a loner with a vending machine business
and a terrible secret from his past, as he makes the statewide deliveries
that have become his way of forgetting about the childhood spent with
his evil father (Caan). But his ritual is soon interrupted when he meets
love interest Kay (Ryan), and discovers their paths have crossed before.
The opening scene of this film is one of the most chilling I've seen,
and there's nice writing all around. As a man with such a tragic past,
it would have been nice to see a little more of what makes our quirky
protagonist tick, but he manages the role of a Texas archetype -- the
cowboy riding and hiding his pain -- just fine. Texas flavor is strong
in bar scenes filled with domino playing, Hill Country shots of horseback
riding and swimming, beautiful big-sky landscapes, and a romantic two-step
in an empty honky-tonk with Willie on the vintage juke. Don't expect
a happy ending, but our hero does drive off into the sunset. 
