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Bobbie is approached by Mel, the charismatic uncle of one of his drug buddies. Mel offers Bobbie the chance to "break in" to big time larceny with the chance of a big score in another town. With the prospect of easy money, limited risk, plenty of drugs and excitement on offer, Bobbie cannot refuse.
Bobbie sets off with his girlfriend Rosie, Mel and Sidney, Mel's heroin addict girlfriend. Between the shopping and fixes the foursome begin to bond and an unlikely family emerges.
However, the heist becomes more dangerous than imagined and Bobbie is forced to make a decision about his new found "family" and his outlaw life.
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Definitely, this is not a movie for children or even adolescents. The graphic drug, sex and violent scenes are all necessary for realistically carrying the film through to its logical conclusion. The film is about a group of dysfunctional people whose life of crime is pursued in an almost tenderly family setting. The young people desperately need parenting, while the characters played by Griffith and Woods hover and brood over their "children" trying to teach them how to live in the river of crime that this "family" wades through.
One of my favorite Woods scenes comes near the end in the car at a rural filling station. As everything in his life begins to unravel, Woods launches into such extreme paroxisms of rage and frustration that we the audience can feel, in his fit he's about to jump out of the screen and tear up our living room. That was a spectacular scene rivaling many of his legendary ones in SALVADOR.
Some people may not be able to stand the vehicle filmmaker Larry Clark uses for dragging us through the grotesquely twisted criminalized lives of two young druggies and their murderous elders. The repeated use of extreme expletives by the characters is necessary because these are people who are verbally inarticulate, and "need" to express themselves with an intensity that moves them to use weapons for self expression. I think viewed this way, the film makes sense. Otherwise, it will burn your ears off, offend your eyes and you'll not wish to see and hear any of it.
Melanie Griffith was very good but James Woods is absolutely great. Acting in a film of this genre cannot garner Academy Awards for those who made this movie. Nevertheless, ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE must be seen by fans of these gifted American actors.
Fantastic stuff
For this excellent film that I would recommend to anyone who loves 'violent runaway romance' movies.
BUT
The DVD I received 'Another Day In Paradise [DVD] [1999] [US Import]'
is NOT 'All Region' as stated in the description section of the Amazon page for it. It arrived today
in good time, perfect condition and well packed but it would not play on my 'Region 2' DVD player,
so it must be a 'Region 1' DVD (As it doesn't say on the box what region it is). The reason I bought
this version rather then the 'Region 2' one was because this was cheaper and SAID it was 'All Region'...
Not true.
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