An unusually funny and
entertaining comic drama to watch without fail. The man in multitasking here is
Vincent Gallo in his brilliant directorial debut who has not only written,
directed and acted but also scored the original music by himself; quite an
arrogant statement just like his character of Billy in the film or rather an
achievement on independent spirit of filmmaking. Billy, a sleazy hot headed
ex-con kidnaps a feisty dumb young girl as soon as gets out of prison and gets
her to pretend as his loving wife for the visit of his parents’ home. Parents
are wacked out too, unaware about Billy’s been away in jail.
Wonderful quirky humor runs
through out the film in this low budget independent film and Gallo has achieved
it through bizarre romance between two unlikely characters performed so damn
well by Gallo and Christina Ricci. Along with them there’re eccentric performances
by Billy’s parents too. His sports obsessed mom and his pervert Dad who takes
advantage of her son’s pretended wife played so brilliantly by Ben Gazzara. Gallo
also covers the film with fine visual style and images too including those intermittent
short flashbacks pop up on screen. There are number of scenes that made me
laugh out loudly whether its dinner table scene, auto photo session, bowling
alley or demand for hot chocolate at Restaurant. The film becomes quite a serious
towards the end but Gallo surprises me with a real happy ending towards the
end.
Ratings- 8/10
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