The film is an Oliver Stone panorama by way of The Love Boat.
The only relief here is that Ed Burns doesn’t conclude the story with a group of sensitive men cathartically crying.
The film revisits an Alphabet City virtually unseen since Paul Morrissey’s vibrant gangland dramedy Mixed Blood.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Buena Vista Home Entertainment releases one of their biggest turkeys in years on DVD.
The Nightmare Before Christmas and Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory have more life and cheer in any given shot than the whole of this film.
The commentary is an engaging reminder that good cinema can come from very small budgets.
As reductive as it is comfortably airtight, the film is a lovely romantic scruple for those weary of Woody Allen’s aging neuroses.