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Source: Film Stew - After reporting on everything from John Wayne Bobbit’s privates to a drunk - Captain Kangaroo, award-winning cameraman Steve Anderson makes his - feature film debut. - By Todd Gilchrist - The Big Empty takes place in a small town outside of Los Angeles - Baker, - to be precise - where everyone evidently is a kook, a weirdo or just plain - eccentric. While it hardly seems like a place anyone would want to stay for - longer than the span of a night, and only locked away safe in your motel - room at that, it’s a place that John Person (Jon Favreau) cannot escape. - Person is an actor (well, sort of), and has been enlisted to carry a suitcase - to the middle of the desert and deliver it to Cowboy (Sean Bean). The - trouble is, however, that he always seems to miss the rendezvous, and - ends up finding trouble - and lots of it - instead. - The Big Empty follows the same dusty trails as Oliver Stone’s U-Turn and - David Dobkin’s Clay Pigeons, both also about men trapped in inescapable - circumstances. Writer/director Steve Anderson’s directorial debut is similarly - trapped, in a plot that it cannot resolve without having either too big or too - small a denouement to satisfy the mainstream audience he hopes to capture, - or the indie crowd that gathers around quirky pictures like this one as if it - were a mini-2001: A Space Odyssey monolith. - But back to the weirdoes. In L.A., Person struggles with infrequent and - unsuccessful auditions. His cute across-the-hall neighbor Grace (Joey Lauren - Adams) is keen on him, but also understandably suspicious when their nutty, - neck-braced neighbor Neely (Bud Cort) makes him an offer he can’t refuse: - take a suitcase to the desert, and he’ll be paid a tidy sum of money to clear - out his mounting debts. Despite his reservations, John agrees and drives - out to Baker to make the delivery. - Unfortunately, John misses Cowboy and finds himself stuck in the one-horse - town with but a cast of bizarre locals to keep him company. There’s the motel - clerk Elron (Jon Gries), who buddies up to him but keeps fouling his rendezvous - plans; Stella (Daryl Hannah), a barkeep whose daughter Ruthie (Rachael - Leigh Cook) ain’t living unless she’s misbehaving; and Randy (Adam Beach), - Ruthie’s insane (and insanely jealous) boyfriend, who sees John as potential - competition. Before long, John receives word that Neely is dead, and that the - Cowboy is one foul-tempered S.O.B. who with every pass of their scheduled - meetings gets more angry, impatient, and possibly murderous. - The film is a textbook “hell” movie, one of those pictures where each - subsequent action aimed at resolving the entanglement of problems only - sucks in our feckless main character that much deeper. As our reluctant hero, - Favreau evokes shades of his younger self, the aspiring thespian navigating - the Hollywood social scene in Swingers, but one who has long since lost any - realistic perspective on his potential career. Now in his thirties, the dream of - an actor’s life is fading, and he faces down more debt than he can possibly - repay, with his main collateral consisting of a folding card table (when he’s - asked about his bed, he replies, “You know, I don’t need that”). - Favreau is an actor whose stock and trade is his consummate “averageness.” - Few actors have been more successful at painting the picture of an everyday - Joe the way he does time and again, be it in little pictures (Made) or in little - in big ones (Daredevil). He’s smart, but not too smart, knowing when to - answer a straight question and when to ignore the question altogether, and - brings life to the frustrating maelstrom of trouble that seems to intensify - with every turn or twist. - Without him, The Big Empty might never have been made, but with him, - even the film’s most ridiculous detours (especially the Area 51-UFO subplot) - carry a certain plausibility; Favreau shines his indignities on and perseveres, - and we can’t help but sympathize with him. - The remainder of the cast was no doubt selected for their relative marquee - value. Joey Lauren Adams still can’t act, but she figures in as the second - biggest “name” on this no-name debut (at least from the vantage point of - the indie circuit in which this film will no doubt circulate). - Rachael Leigh Cook wore out her eight-headed welcome five minutes after - She’s All That, and Bud Cort has apparently accepted that he will always be - known as Harold in Harold & Maude, and has given little concern to the nut - jobs he’s played subsequent to that career-defining role. Daryl Hannah lends - sensitivity to what must have been a job completed between weeks of shooting - Kill Bill, and ditto for Lord Of the Rings’ Sean Bean as Cowboy. Those must - have been a fun couple of late nights, working for Anderson for peanuts as - a reminder of the actor’s noble struggle between the multiplex and the art - house. - Nonetheless, The Big Empty is not an art house film. Small, definitely. - Independent, sure. But the film’s underwhelming slightness makes for a - Saturday matinee with the hordes, not a wine and cheese party at the - American Cinematheque. Still, it’s a very entertaining film, one that deserves - a spot next to the studio-fed crap that creeps into theatres for an undignified - death (surely this could have replaced a few screens of Duplex or Jeepers - Creepers 2). - Steve Anderson has crafted an impressive, well-photographed debut whose - only shortcoming is an ending that doesn’t quite live up to the story’s - potential pathos, or the whimsy of its curiously eccentric detours. The - director will no doubt find future directing gigs at a fast clip - the pacing - and storytelling is clear and compelling - but let’s hope for the sake of his - continued career that he learns to separate the acting from the aliens.
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INFO RedateljSteve Anderson GlumciJon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Rachael Leigh Cook, Daryl Hannah Sažetak John Person (Jon Favreau) je 30-godišnji glumac koji se pokušava probiti. Živi sam i prijeti mu izbacivanje iz garsonijere u Hollywoodu. Kasni sa stanarinom i do grla je u dugovima. Umjesto da posluša svoj razum i zgodnu susjedu Grace (Joey Lauren Adams), on prihvati ponudu svog čudnog susjeda Neelyja (Bud Cort) da prenese plavi kovčeg do autobusne postaje u pustinji, u Bakeru u Kalifroniji.