Larry-Miller Movie Reviews

1990 was the year of the Ghost Films. Ghost, Always, and Flatliners. Very Morbid subjects for films with no plot and very bad acting. It's a shame Paul Hogan tried this with this film, playing a man who thinks He's an angel after a near death encounter. Charlton Heston's small part does not do anything for this film, except make you not want to see it again ever.

A Professional Thief (Paul Hogan) dies in a Accident, he`s has been resurrected as a Probational Angel in Heaven, who has to help people are in Down Spirits and Disbelieve in God, in the search of Redemption.

This Charming Downbeat Comedy has fine performances by Hogan, Elias Koteas and Linda Kozlowski. Directed by John Cornell (Crocodile Dundee 2) has made himself a fine film here. Charlton Heston has a Cameo here as God. This film is a Geniune Well Made Movie. Super 35. Grade:B+.

Good movie to see if you are a Paul Hogan or Linda Kozlowski
fan. It is also one of those movies a viewer should see
twice, because the first time you don't know what is really
going on. Don't miss the ending, all is explained. I give it
four stars - not one of the best movies around, but one of my
own personal favorites.

I have always been a fan of Drew Barrymore and I have liked all of her movies that I have seen but I didn't like Irreconcilable Differences, the movie definitely had potential but I found it instead to be boring and it wasted the talents of Drew Barrymore, Shelley Long, Ryan O'Neal and Sharon Stone, and the sight of Sharon Stone's character with her hairy armpits is enough to make you want to hurl! This is definitely a movie I don't want to see again or have in my video or DVD collection!

"Irreconcilable Differences" is a small, simple film with a message. Don't pull your children into your troubles! Drew Barrymore plays Casey, a precocious nine year old who decides to divorce her self-absorbed parents after years of being used as a pawn in their bitter feuding. Casey sits on the sidelines watching her parents' love and lives deteriorate and the story is told through flashbacks during testimony in court. There are some funny moments in the film (such as a cocky young starlet's talentless singing about the Civil War), but the whole general effect is very sobering. One particularly poignant note is the parallels that can be made between the film and Drew Barrymore's own childhood. The scene where she sneakily downs a glass of champagne while sitting ignored at her father's New Year's Eve party takes on particular meaning when viewed against her own much publicized battles with youthful addiction. In the end, the film should be made required viewing at divorce cases where children are involved.

A terrific little "gem" of a movie. Very witty & well written story, told in flashback, of child, played wonderfully by little prodigy Drew Barrymore, who's divorcing her battling parents. Little Drew seems to be the only sane person here, the adults all progressively deteriorating into vindictive, obnoxious, immature beings. The parents are portrayed with comic skill by Ryan O'Neal & Shelley Long. Watching them meet, fall in whirlwind love, achieve fame, grow apart... is funnier than it sounds, though also at times very moving. Sharon Stone, in what I believe was her introductory role, is hysterical as new star "Blake Chandler", the obnoxious, self-centered opportunist in sheeps clothing. Her scene in O'Neals characters pathetic and doomed musical version of "Gone With The Wind", where she sings, always cracks me up, she is so perfectly talentless, arrogant, and awful. Just a great little underrated film, that is very entertaining, comical, and ultimatley very touching. There ain't a dang thang wrong with this movie. Definatley worth watching.

I have always been a fan of Drew Barrymore and I have liked all of her movies that I have seen but I didn't like Irreconcilable Differences, the movie definitely had potential but I found it instead to be boring and it wasted the talents of Drew Barrymore, Shelley Long, Ryan O'Neal and Sharon Stone, and the sight of Sharon Stone's character with her hairy armpits is enough to make you want to hurl! This is definitely a movie I don't want to see again or have in my video or DVD collection!

"Irreconcilable Differences" is a small, simple film with a message. Don't pull your children into your troubles! Drew Barrymore plays Casey, a precocious nine year old who decides to divorce her self-absorbed parents after years of being used as a pawn in their bitter feuding. Casey sits on the sidelines watching her parents' love and lives deteriorate and the story is told through flashbacks during testimony in court. There are some funny moments in the film (such as a cocky young starlet's talentless singing about the Civil War), but the whole general effect is very sobering. One particularly poignant note is the parallels that can be made between the film and Drew Barrymore's own childhood. The scene where she sneakily downs a glass of champagne while sitting ignored at her father's New Year's Eve party takes on particular meaning when viewed against her own much publicized battles with youthful addiction. In the end, the film should be made required viewing at divorce cases where children are involved.

A terrific little "gem" of a movie. Very witty & well written story, told in flashback, of child, played wonderfully by little prodigy Drew Barrymore, who's divorcing her battling parents. Little Drew seems to be the only sane person here, the adults all progressively deteriorating into vindictive, obnoxious, immature beings. The parents are portrayed with comic skill by Ryan O'Neal & Shelley Long. Watching them meet, fall in whirlwind love, achieve fame, grow apart... is funnier than it sounds, though also at times very moving. Sharon Stone, in what I believe was her introductory role, is hysterical as new star "Blake Chandler", the obnoxious, self-centered opportunist in sheeps clothing. Her scene in O'Neals characters pathetic and doomed musical version of "Gone With The Wind", where she sings, always cracks me up, she is so perfectly talentless, arrogant, and awful. Just a great little underrated film, that is very entertaining, comical, and ultimatley very touching. There ain't a dang thang wrong with this movie. Definatley worth watching.

This was an interesting concept for a movie. A solar flair burst bigger than anything ever recorded is headed toward Earth. The temperature begins to rise on what is already a hot summer. The movie focuses on Los Angeles and how the city copes with the rising heat. The main characters are a local high school teacher, who is also a member of the National Guard, a Doctor who can no longer practice because of a patient's death, a lifeguard from a local beach, who is also a medical tech and her bad boy ex-boyfriend, also a General who has been sent to LA to try and keep the city under control until the solar wave passes over Earth. The city is placed under Marshall Law as the temp soars to around 140 degrees and starts baking the city along with the cast. Not a bad story but could have been better.

It is absolutely unbelievable how truly awful this film is--'Frozen Assets' is easily one of the WORST films ever made. This movie is so bad that it's beyond comprehension.

(Almost worth seeing for the broad strokes of undiluted incompetence this film was brushed with.)

Even its great cast cannot make this a good movie. I must say that it makes some important points that deserve further thought.

For a slightly different, light hearted comedy, try Frozen Assets. It will put a smile on your face without a lot of foul language and nudity.

American Drive-In is a really strong contender for worst movie ever made, and no movie I have ever seen tries harder to claim that ignominious crown. Not content to merely torture us with its own painfully unbearable presentation, the movie injects itself with heavy doses of director Krishna Shah's earlier monstrosity of a movie, Hard Rock Zombies. I see this in one of two ways. Either Krishna Shah was the most evil, despicable director to ever live, or else Shah thought that American Drive-In would not seem nearly so bad as it obviously is compared to Hard Rock Zombies. There really and truly ought to be a law against movies this bad.

There's really no story to speak of, but I'll mention some of the things that happen here. Basically, every disgusting and insane person (not to mention bad actor) in a five hundred mile radius come to the drive-in to watch the dreadful Hard Rock Zombies. There is a city boy and country girl who seem to think the movie is about them because they alone actually attempt to act at one point (big mistake). A gang of hoodlums spend the night terrorizing people and attempting to grab and rape the country girl. A mayoral candidate is trying to catch the local drug dealer in town, but the film his son records of him nabbing the bad guy ends up being a film of him doing something else entirely. Let's see. There's also a guy trying to make his girlfriend perform a little service for him, a clueless geek who pontificates on the deep philosophical aspects of Hard Rock Zombies while his hot and randy date fumes. You have a couple of middle-aged gay men trying to be funny, two old women who have a hard time figuring out modern cinema, some rambunctious kids, an insane projectionist, a dwarf trying to enjoy his own performance in Hard Rock Zombies, and a few other characters I am desperately trying to forget.

Other than a scene in which one of the more annoying characters gets the stuffing kicked out of him, there's almost nothing to enjoy here, folks. When all is said and done, however, one character does deserve special kudos. A young man takes it upon himself to add some actual comedy to this movie by planting a microphone on a certain van that's a rockin' and somehow rigging it up so that the activities in the van play over the sound system in place of the movie soundtrack. Thanks heavens for such enterprising youth; without that fine young man, I have to wonder if I could have come out of American Drive-In with my sanity intact.

Mature adults only! Not for children to see! This is the film that Danny Nucci doesn't want anyone to see (as he jokingly said on a Yahoo Chat Event on March 7, 2001). This film contains a whole cast of characters. They all come to the "City Limits" Drive-In to see the mock film "Hard Rock Zombies". You will meet the booth lady who has to remind people about their raffle tickets. But she can hold her own when it comes to four thugs, like Sarg and Mike. You've got a movie projector man who is nuts. The only nice people are Jack and his country girl, Bobby Ann. Also in the Drive-In is a gay guy and his straight-acting friend, Benny. A fat family that believes in dieting, but here at the drive-in, they will have their last feast. Then there is the man who is a candidate to be Mayor. All he has to do is crack a case. He sends his young son out into the drive-in field to see who has "Mary-Jane". His daughter, Deena, goes to find some sexual action of her own. Two old ladies come to see "Hard Rock Zombies". Then a nice dwarf man who is an actor in the film that is showing is so excited at seeing himself and his great performance. (I'm sorry I do not know the actor's name but he steals the scenes in this movie) But that's not all. More zany people come to this drive-in. You have a young Asian couple. He's in the mood, she's not. Then she is in the mood, but he is not. Another couple, "Danny" and "Marge". Danny wants her to do a certain sexual act for him. She won't do it because it's gross. He keeps trying to make her do it. Then you got the prostitute in the camper. Guess what she makes the candidate-for-Mayor do? Then you have the two sex-crazed couples with the old man in the next car watching. Why doesn't Danny Nucci want anyone to see this film? He is the boy in the red shirt on the bicycle. And don't forget the prize is a bouquet of roses, so keep your raffle tickets.

This movie is amongst the worst "action" films ever! There's barely any action, too much scientific talk, lame plot, and to top it all off--the story setting is in California yet the coverbox for the film shows the East River in New York City! There ya have it.
P.S. I gave it one star just for its effort in "trying" to entertain the viewer.

Or you out of your mind! I watched about 5 mins. and I'm speachless. That was the worse movie I ever "started" to watch and couldn't get to the controls fast enough to turn it off. Throw them away, please.

DVD features: None
First off the dvd features are bad. Only 2.0 sound english and scene selection make this movie already seem bad. The movie is about a terrorist who is making tidal waves and only 2 people can stop them. This movie lacks character development and and a series of dialogue that is uninteresting and intended to explain how tidal waves are possibly made. Some of the dialogue gets too technical thus making the film lame and boring. Next the special effects are weak and action is little in this film. This movie features mild violence and disaster moment but I would recommend this as a family movie (this movie has no rating). I would highly recommend you don't buy this movie.

"Body Waves" is a 1992 movie that comes across as an '80s leftover. Rick is a young man who tries to be an entrepreneur. Him and his buddy buy cases and cases of suntan lotion. They try and sell the lotion at the beach but nobody's buying. Rick stumbles across a trio of nerds who decide that they will pay him a bunch of money if he teaches them how to be desirable to the opposite sex. You can see where this is going, right?

It's yet another film whose sole purpose is to show several topless women. Now, there's nothing wrong with topless women...it's just that a full-length movie needs a little more than that to stay interesting. "V.I.P." fans will be interested to know that this was the first movie role for Leah Lail (the blonde computer whiz). No...you don't get to see her topless, but you do get to see that she has decent acting talent.

"Body Waves" is completely insulting to anyone over the age of 12. It's simply a rehash of about a hundred lame comedies from the '80s. Wave goodbye to this one.