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Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 ><NOBR><div> This is Fagnostic!…a new version of fantastic…</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Gilly: Chris Klein</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Jo: Heather Graham</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Dig: Orlando Jones</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Valdine: Sally Field</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Walter: Richard Jenkins</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Leon: Jack Plotnick</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Jack: Eddie Cibrian</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Jimmy: Mark Pellegrino</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Streak: Brent Hinkley</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Freddy: Henry Cho</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Gina: Sara Silverman</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Director: James B. Rogers</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: A couple falls in love, only to be told later that they are siblings. They separate and the man subsequently learns that they are not brother and sister. He tries to find her so he can pick up where they left off.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> Gilly (Chris Klein) makes $18,000 a year working at an animal shelter where many of the pets he captures are put to sleep. He is a lonely person, orphaned as a child, but he's happy in his dead end job. </div> <bR> <div> After hearing about the attractive and popular new lady barber in town, he goes in for a haircut and meets Jo (Heather Graham). She clips him all right, with a haircut from hell.   Jo also nicks his face a little and his ear a lot, which sends him to the hospital emergency room. To make amends, she invites him to dinner at her home, where she lives with her parents, Valdine & Walter (Sally Field and Richard Jenkins). Valdine gives trailer trash a bad name and Walter is recovering from a stroke. Jo's mom wants her to marry someone with major financial resources so that she can be taken care of and they can <I>all</I> live happily ever after.     </div> <bR> <div> Jo and Gilly hit it off and before long are passionately in love. Because Gilly wants to find out who his real parents are, he hires a private detective. The detective reports that Valdine is his mother, thus making Jo (whom he's slept with) his sister! Gilly and Jo go their separate ways. She leaves Indiana to reunite with her old boyfriend Jack (Eddie Cibrian), who lives in Beaver, Oregon. In the meantime, Gilly becomes an outcast for boning his sister. Some suggest that he should become a "vaginatarian" and on his dirty Ford truck, the word "Fordicator" is spelled out. </div> <bR> <div> Showing up on Valdine's doorstep one day is Leon (Jack Plotnick), who has DNA proof that he is her son and Jo's real brother. By this time Jo is engaged to be married to Jack, who is quite wealthy; though not a very nice guy.  Valdine knows that Jo and Gilly are in love with each other, so she does not want her to find out that he really is not her brother until after the wedding has taken place.</div> <bR> <div> Gilly leaves for Oregon and Valdine puts things in motion to ensure the wedding proceeds as planned. Along the way humor on par with <I>American Pie</I> and <I><B>Me, Myself & Irene</B></I> is repeated, and often taken to a new level…lower. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: If there were an Academy Award for Best Crude Comedy of the year, this would be on the short list. But it's only March, and a few other jewels like <I>Tomcats</I> and <I><B>Freddie Got Fingered</B></I><I>,</I> are not yet released. </div> <bR> <div> Sally Field was in the upper atmosphere in<I><B> </B></I><I><B>Where the Heart Is</B></I><I><B>;</B></I> in outer space in <I><B>Beautiful</B></I> and in another solar system in this one. She is certainly trying to do new things…and not afraid of going new places in film by using the absurd. This is more of an observation than saying it's good or bad. I'll leave that up to you. </div> <bR> <div> The gross humor is so focused in this film that by the time Orlando Jones does his buck eyed routine, there is no racial connotation as in films like <I><B>Double Take</B></I> and <I><B>Ladies Man</B></I><I><B>.</B></I> If anything, this film illustrates that if there is balance in how characters who tend to be stereotyped, can have that neutralized when <I>all </I>the characters are buffoons. This qualifies as a dubious distinction at best.</div> <bR> <div> There are a few funny things in the film, but just looking at Klein and Graham along with wacko characters like Jimmy, Leon, Freddy, Gina, and Streak and it's clear this is a movie aimed at the lowest common denominator of intelligence. </div> <bR> <div> Like the first <I>Airplane</I> movie, which did a bang up box office, and was really funny in part because it was fresh and different. I wonder however, where the numbing point is on these crude humor films when the box office receipts start to taper off?!</div> <bR> <div> For those of you who think being a movie critic is all fun and games, you may understand why sitting through films like this is when you'd be glad to pay someone else to write that review for you. There are some lessons you don't want to learn, and films like this have a book full of throwaway lesson plans.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> R (sex; nudity; drugs; violence; language)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> Mini Filmography </div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="286"><div> Chris Klein: <I>American Pie</I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Heather Graham: <I>Committed</I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Orlando Jones: <I><B>Double Take</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Sally Field: <I><B>Where the Heart Is</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Richard Jenkins: <I><B>Me, Myself  & Irene</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="286"><div> Jack Plotnick: <I>Mystery Men</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Eddie Cibrian: <I>Third Watch-TV</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Mark Pellegrino: <I><B>Drowning Mona</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Brent Hinkley: <I>Dangerous Waters-TV</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="286"><div> Henry Cho: <I>McHale's Navy</I></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Sara Silverman: <I>The Way of the Gun</I></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> James B. Rogers: <I><B>Me, Myself & Irene</B></I></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>