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Also in Theaters
By STEVE PERSALL
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 26, 2001
Heard through the grapevine
Rumor has it that Warren Beatty wanted to call his new movie The Return of Ishtar, but Town and Country (R) will have to do. Just kidding, but the buzz on this extramarital comedy is so bad that comparisons to Beatty's infamous 1987 flop are inevitable. Beatty plays an architect who considers cheating on his wife (Diane Keaton), while his best friend (Garry Shandling) does the same to his spouse (Goldie Hawn). How anyone can miss with that cast is a mystery still unsolved, since New Line didn't screen Town and Country in time for critical review. The movie has been sitting on the studio's shelf for a year, so why wait? Ishtar got better treatment.
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One hunk and a few undead
The Forsaken (R) is a generic title for a horror movie serving as this week's reason for hunky young actors to cherish employment on television. Kerr Smith (Dawson's Creek) plays Sean, driving cross-country for his sister's wedding when he picks up a vampire-hunting hitchhiker named Nick (Brendan Fehr, Roswell). Pretty soon -- probably not soon enough -- there's a showdown with the bloodsucker-in-charge (Johnathon Schaech, Time of Your Life). What? No Party of Five refugees? Somebody needs a new agent. Or perhaps the best agents are keeping their clients away from this stuff.
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Three guys and a vamp
One Night at McCool's spent nearly one year on New Line Cinema's shelf. Hardly a show of respect for the first release from Michael Douglas' production company, Further Films. Douglas hired first-time director Harold Zwart for this dark comedy about a nightclub vamp (Liv Tyler) and her various ways of seducing three men (John Goodman, Paul Reiser, Matt Dillon). Zwart tells his story Rashomon-style from each man's perspective, with the truth somewhere in-between. Douglas has a small role as a sympathetic listener to their jumbled memories.
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