Touch
Director: Paul schrade:*
For another take on Elmore Leonard, why not try Paul Schrader's latest, a cock-eyed parable about a Christ-like figure who brings himself, stigmata, healing powers and all, to the underprivileged and over-ambitious in Los Angeles. Skeet Ulrich is the beautiful Juvenal (perhaps it's this role that got him a job posing for Greg Kinnear in As Good as it Gets) and he gets entangled with a pop-eyed revivalist (Christopher Walken), a blowsy topless dancer (Lolita Davidovich), a hip reporter (Janeane Garofalo) and, finally, Bridget Fonda as the woman who navigates the plot to reality, though a series of intense dialogues that Schrader does so well. Touch is not just a cool exercise in style: Tom Arnold as a Catholic fundamentalist, experiencing his own hilarious miracle on Gina Gershon's talk show, is two guffaws away from vaudeville.
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Rip It Up, Issue 248, 1 April 1998, Page 34
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140Touch Rip It Up, Issue 248, 1 April 1998, Page 34
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