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I have just stumbled upon this film on Amazon and decided to give it a watch, solely because I've always had a soft spot for Goldie Hawn.
Hawn stars (In one of her more serious roles) as a struggling single mother doing her best to raise her son and improve their circumstances after her husband (The underused Keith Carradine) abandons them after returning from Vietnam suffering from PTSD.
She decides to go to to desperate lengths, and takes a job as a stripper, in the hope that she can move her and her son out of the motel that they live in, and into a real home.
Her 12 year old son (David Arnott) also works hard. One of his jobs is delivering fish to a local restaurant, or so he thinks.
One day he discovers that the fish are stuffed with cocaine, and having discovered what his mom does for money, he also decides to go to desperate lengths and keeps the coke and sells it himself to try and help his mom out.
The film just gently roles along. The cinematography is superb, and the whole thing gave me a sense of nostalgia and longing for a time and a place that I was never even a part of.
The performances are all good, but in truth, the movie rests on the shoulders of young David Arnott.
His perfomance is very low key and subtle. A lot of child actors overact, Arnott is the opposite, he underacts. His voice is deep, and he often mumbles his dialogue. I'm really not sure if he was instructed to play the part that way, or if he just wasn't a very expressive actor? Either way, I really enjoyed his performance. I was rooting for him because it felt like you were watching a real kid, not an actor.
This was Arnott's one and only performance, and I wonder why? It was a a pretty tough gig for him I would say. He spends half the film dressed only in denim shorts, and in one short scene he wears nothing at all. A tough ask for a kid of his age. I was interested to see what became of him, but I could find nothing about him on the internet, which is unusual. I wonder what happened to him? Does anyone know?
CrissCross is not a great film, but it has something very likeable about it, and I would recommend that you give it a watch.
7/10.
Hawn stars (In one of her more serious roles) as a struggling single mother doing her best to raise her son and improve their circumstances after her husband (The underused Keith Carradine) abandons them after returning from Vietnam suffering from PTSD.
She decides to go to to desperate lengths, and takes a job as a stripper, in the hope that she can move her and her son out of the motel that they live in, and into a real home.
Her 12 year old son (David Arnott) also works hard. One of his jobs is delivering fish to a local restaurant, or so he thinks.
One day he discovers that the fish are stuffed with cocaine, and having discovered what his mom does for money, he also decides to go to desperate lengths and keeps the coke and sells it himself to try and help his mom out.
The film just gently roles along. The cinematography is superb, and the whole thing gave me a sense of nostalgia and longing for a time and a place that I was never even a part of.
The performances are all good, but in truth, the movie rests on the shoulders of young David Arnott.
His perfomance is very low key and subtle. A lot of child actors overact, Arnott is the opposite, he underacts. His voice is deep, and he often mumbles his dialogue. I'm really not sure if he was instructed to play the part that way, or if he just wasn't a very expressive actor? Either way, I really enjoyed his performance. I was rooting for him because it felt like you were watching a real kid, not an actor.
This was Arnott's one and only performance, and I wonder why? It was a a pretty tough gig for him I would say. He spends half the film dressed only in denim shorts, and in one short scene he wears nothing at all. A tough ask for a kid of his age. I was interested to see what became of him, but I could find nothing about him on the internet, which is unusual. I wonder what happened to him? Does anyone know?
CrissCross is not a great film, but it has something very likeable about it, and I would recommend that you give it a watch.
7/10.
I am, more often than not, left disappointed when my favourite literary classics are adapted for television or the big screen, and while this BBC production of LP Hartley's novel is not perfect, it does better than most.
The drama begins with a crushed, sorrowful looking older Leo (Jim Broadbent) travelling on a train to Norfolk, the scene of his foreign past. He imagines his younger self, (Jack Hollington) who accuses him of being a "Dull Dog." The older Leo then lays the blame for him being this "creature of ashes and cinder" squarely on the shoulders of his younger self. I found it to be a clever, and moving way of beginning the story.
We then travel back fifty years in time to the scorching summer of 1900 and the characters that would haunt Leo into his old age.
Leo spends his holidays at the country manor of his upper-class friend Marcus. (Samuel Joslin) It is here that he meets the beautiful, but manipulative and selfish Marian, (Joanna Vanderham) who he becomes instantly besotted with. He then becomes a postman of sorts, as he delivers love letters between Marian and her bit of rough, the tenant farmer Ted Burgess. (Ben Batt)
Over the course of the summer, Leo feels increasingly uncomfortable and guilty about ferrying these correspondence, which he now knows aren't just "normal letters," back and forth. The engagement of Marian to the landlord, war hero, and thoroughly decent Trimingham (Stephen Campbell Moore) increases Leo's torment even further.
I found it to be well directed, beautifully shot, with picture perfect locations. The performances were excellent throughout, especially from Master Hollington as young Leo. His acting was subtle, natural, intuitive and he had a charismatic presence that you could not take your eyes off of. One to watch out for I would say.
At times it felt a little rushed, especially at the end where Broadbent returns as Leo, Batt as Marian's grandson, and Vanessa Redgrave plays the part of an older Marian. That is just a small complaint though. Overall, I found it to be a very moving adaptation of my favourite LP Hartley novel
The drama begins with a crushed, sorrowful looking older Leo (Jim Broadbent) travelling on a train to Norfolk, the scene of his foreign past. He imagines his younger self, (Jack Hollington) who accuses him of being a "Dull Dog." The older Leo then lays the blame for him being this "creature of ashes and cinder" squarely on the shoulders of his younger self. I found it to be a clever, and moving way of beginning the story.
We then travel back fifty years in time to the scorching summer of 1900 and the characters that would haunt Leo into his old age.
Leo spends his holidays at the country manor of his upper-class friend Marcus. (Samuel Joslin) It is here that he meets the beautiful, but manipulative and selfish Marian, (Joanna Vanderham) who he becomes instantly besotted with. He then becomes a postman of sorts, as he delivers love letters between Marian and her bit of rough, the tenant farmer Ted Burgess. (Ben Batt)
Over the course of the summer, Leo feels increasingly uncomfortable and guilty about ferrying these correspondence, which he now knows aren't just "normal letters," back and forth. The engagement of Marian to the landlord, war hero, and thoroughly decent Trimingham (Stephen Campbell Moore) increases Leo's torment even further.
I found it to be well directed, beautifully shot, with picture perfect locations. The performances were excellent throughout, especially from Master Hollington as young Leo. His acting was subtle, natural, intuitive and he had a charismatic presence that you could not take your eyes off of. One to watch out for I would say.
At times it felt a little rushed, especially at the end where Broadbent returns as Leo, Batt as Marian's grandson, and Vanessa Redgrave plays the part of an older Marian. That is just a small complaint though. Overall, I found it to be a very moving adaptation of my favourite LP Hartley novel