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The local review (Dallas Morning News) says
Waters has gone all soft and sentimental. Edward Furlong's
happy-go-lucky demeanor through out the whole movie attests to
that.
Here's a run-down of the characters:
Edward furlong is a (need I repeat myself)
happy-go-lucky hamburger flipping would-be photographer who takes
pictures of everything and everyone in his Baltimore
neighborhood. He is discovered by a Manhattan gallery owner and
soon becomes the "darling". Boy has an eye, boy loses
eye, boy gets eye back. Oops, hope I didn't ruin it for you.
Christina Ricci is the girl friend who runs a
laudromat and takes her job Very Seriously. She's a bit of a
charicheture (sp?) but aren't they all?
Dad runs a bar (The Claw) and is pre-occupied
with the unfair trade practices of his nearest competiture, a
lesbian bar that reveals pubic hair.
Mom is a nebish who runs a thrift store and is
most concerned with dressing the homeless fashionably for a
quarter or less.
Sis is a bar tender at a gay bar that features
"trade" guy dancers. She too, loves her job. Trade is
her life, we come to learn.
L'il Sis is a sugar freak whose addiction, OD
and Ritalin treatment follow Big Brother's rise and fall and
rise.
Then there's the polyglot assortment of the
Manhattan art gallery crowd, the homeless, the Baltimore
neighbors, etc.
And thru it all, the protagonist just clicks
and grins away.
Maybe if it was a musical, I would have liked
it better. I wanted to like it, real bad. But it was pretty
formulaic. Soft, and sentimental, just like the reviewer said
(damn!)
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