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Unstrung Heroes [DVD] [1995]

Andie MacDowell (Actor), John Turturro (Actor), Diane Keaton (Director) | Rated: Parental Guidance | Format: DVD
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Steven Lidz's mother is ailing, his father has little time for him and he is not popular at school. So he goes to stay with his eccentric uncles, and soon begins to behave as strangely as they do. As his mother's condition deteriorates, Steven returns home to his father, who still has little time for him. When Steven's mother dies, it seems that father and son will never be reconciled.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The film's OK, but the book's far, far better 16 Jan 1999
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Unstrung Heroes is one of my alltime favorite books, and I was deeply disappointed how the filmmakers homogenized, pasteurized, de-ethnisized and generally watered it down. Granted, paring is a function of filmmaking - but the treacley script fails to capture the memoir's honesty, humor or dark irony. Unlike the book, the film wallows in sentimentality. Gone are 2 of the uncles - most missed is Uncle Leo, whom the young boy visits in the asylum that's been his home for more than 30 years. Instead of being genuinely mad and edgy, the two remaining uncles play out like Oscar and Felix on The Odd Couple. (They've been Disneyfied, like the rest of the major characters). And the boy's profoundly evil best friend - Ash - is reduced to a sort of Eddie Haskell. This film loses a lot - mostly an urban edge - by shifting locales from New York City to Pasadena (!!!) On top of that, the father (John Turturro) is shorn of all humor - the Sidney Lidz portrayed in the book was an extremely witty (though deeply flawed) man. Turturro does a fantastic job with a badly scripted, unplayable part. He transcends this disappointing adaptation and warrants 5 stars. And Disney has added all kinds of dopey capers (like the boy "saving" his uncles from eviction) to "move the action along." Really dumb and insulting to the viewer! My advice: Buy the book! It's richly rewarding, still in paperback and dirt-cheap.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A small, calculatingly warm and fuzzy movie 20 Aug 1999
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It's interesting to watch the jagged leaps and bounds by which this hilarious, unsentimental Lower East Side memoir became a sentimental tearjerker about a beautiful mother dying of cancer in L.A. That Hollywood gets Jewishness wrong again and again should come as a surprise to no one (Remember Melanie Griffith in "A Stranger Among Us"?) But the story of "Unstrung Heroes" is a rather spectacular example of Disney not getting anything about New York at all. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about this sanitized ode to motherhood is that it is practically impossible to watch without crying. Billed as a Jewish "Terms of Endearment", it's really just another Light-Hearted Weepie that plucks at the heartstrings pretty darn hard.
31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars What A Missed Opportunity! 12 July 1999
By cocolbernal@hotmail.com - Published on Amazon.com
This sappy, syrupy reworking of a splendid memoir is only affecting because it manipilates audiences by focus group-tested Hollywood formula. Sadly, the filmmakers were too callow to take even minimal risks and follow the book, which is exciting and volatile and genuinely affecting. The memoir survives on its honesty -- the film is hollow from its first false frame to its last. Only John Turturro's brilliant performance redeems this cheap, commercial project. But then, what else would you expect from Disney?
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