There are fewer and fewer labours of love' in the movies these days- you start with a clever guy and a clever idea (right there most projects grind to a halt) get together a few bucks and some close famous' friends-far too big a stars for this little project
and go out for an obscenely FEW amount of days and locations, add a little spit and bailing wire, and somehow come away with a movie.
Two Girls and a Guy is a good example, Let it Ride another one, but for my money, COLDBLOODED is the best of them all.
It's just that good.
Wallace Wolodarsky (supervising producer of The Simpsons) wrote and directed this darker than dark, black, dark black comedy about a young hit man protegee and his kooky environs.
Jason Priestly (as Cosmo Reif) shows the acting form not of Bev Hills 90210, but a foreshadow of his later work in Love and Death on Long Island. Kimberly Williams is perfect as the ingenue girlfriend, and Peter Riegert is spectacular as Cosmo's mentor Steve.
Robert Loggia, Janeane Garofalo and even Michael J Fox show up in smaller roles.
Not available on laser, you'll have to dig this one up on video, or on some of the more obscure cable options-but well worth the effort.
