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roddglenn · Superstar Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1026

I've never heard of that one either, so why not!

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

We are all in tthe same boat then Flickers because I never heard of it either.....should be fun ....good choice babe

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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6162

The reviews should be interesting if none of us have seen it before!

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

Yes we are entering the unknown pit ....... the abyss......the hidden hole ...the desolate crack......erm I don't know where I'm going with this

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roddglenn · Superstar Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1026

lol descending into darkness and depravity! Yay!

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Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

Hey its where I live man its where I'm at my best

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roddglenn · Superstar Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 1026

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The Man Chump · Popcorn Seller Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 91

I was planning to stay up and watch it, but fell asleep

a trip to choices of me then!
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Catnapper · Site Joined: 30 Jul 2007 Posts: 6162

Not to worry Chump!

I got a copy from a carboot on Saturday.......I hope it plays ok

Lucifer_666 · Site Joined: 27 Jul 2007 Posts: 9571

I found American Perfekt the strangest yet one of the most interesting road movies I've seen in a while......It begins with Angela Plummer's character Sandra driving on a desolate road and gets abruptly veered off it by some strange other guy in a car...it is here that she meets another passer-by ...named Jake Nyman (Robert Forster) a criminal Physchologist who has incorporated into his life the idea of every decision having to be
made by the flip of a coin and it isn't long before he is helping Sandra out to get to her destination where she is to meet up with her wayward sister..... Sandra is intrigued with the idea of living your life by chance and starts to obviously come on to Jake... The truth is early on you really don't know what to make of the characters because both are so quirky my initial gut feelings were telling me neither can be trusted...and it was this uncertainty I liked from the beginning.
When they reach the place to get someone to tow her car back Sandra notices the car that run her off the road earlier and crazily gets in and steals money from it so then when Later down the line they run out of
fuel and go walking on the hope of being picked up by another car it kind of adds that bit more tension when that very same car makes a reappearance.
Anyway they eventually flip to take the ride and we get introduced to Santini played by David Thewlis who explains that some woman nearly run him off the road earlier when he tried to return her lighter

...Santini is a small time con man.... a trickster and when they stop later at a cafe Jake notices him tricking a local Deputy out of money meanwhile Sandra is getting exceedingly jealous of Joanna Gleason's Shirley who comes over and chats to Jake..It builds to Santini striking Sandra (which just seemed to come from nowhere) and Jake flipping his coin on whether he should kill Santini or just make sure he never talks to Sandra in the same way he did before.....
It all leads to Jake on his own meeting Sandra's more suspicious and to me more streetwise sister played by Fairuza Balk who seems much more like a normal human being than her sibling...this part of the movie mainly features her very different relationship with Jake, searching for her sister. and of course in the end she finds her......It also shows the Sherriff (Paul
Sorvino) enter Santini's room and start tracking the others down
I don't know about anyone else but as I was watching each conversation and event occur.....it was almost like a movie that was based on a stage play I was watching..... that may sound strange after all its a road movie... I know!!.... but it was very character driven and the conversations seemed at times like staged acts and scenes...
The acting was very good too but who steals the show is Robert Forster who plays Jake...he's exellent and its a completely different role for him...I wouldn't normally associate him with this kind of part at all.
I enjoyed the film but it is weird most notably the ending.......if your staying with the film thinking your going to get all the answers your going to be disappointed however if the ending is really getting on your wick I do think the reason Jake collapses to his knees is simply because he cannot decide what to do next without his coin to flip

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