Fool for Love (1985)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 12
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 3
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Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the couple is alternately bickering violently and making love with equal fervor. Peripheral characters include Harry Dean Stanton as a boozed-up bum, Martha Crawford as an aristocratic would-be murderer, and
Jan 1, 1985 Limited
Apr 20, 2004
Cannon Films
Cast
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Sam Shepard
Eddie -
Kim Basinger
May -
Harry Dean Stanton
Old Man -
Randy Quaid
Martin -
Martha Crawford
May's mother -
Louise Egolf
Eddie's mother -
Sura Cox
Teenage May -
Jonathan Skinner
Teenage Eddie -
April Russell
Young May -
Deborah McNaughton
The Countess -
Lon Hill
Mr. Valdez
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Though most of the tension of the theatrical presentation is gone, the movie preserves a lot of the play's lunatic humor. It also understands the Shepard concern for characters who have somehow found themselves cut loose from any social roots.
Top CriticAltman's staging only underlines the pretentious vagaries built into Shepard's concept.
With Fool for Love, he has succeeded on two levels that seem opposed to each other. He has made a melodrama, almost a soap opera, in which the characters achieve a kind of nobility.
The basic friction between Altman's lightness and Shepard's portentousness serves the movie in rich and ever-expanding ways, and not just because you can't ever predict how the narrative will swerve.
It seems like a transplanted drama from the 1950s.
A scorching drama about the war between the sexes.
Fool For Love is too removed from the real world to connect as more than a spooky, extradimensional love story.
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