“Altman Meets Grisham”
By Raymond Benson
Eccentric, quirky, and often brilliant director Robert Altman had a hit-and-miss career spanning six decades. After a mostly spectacular run of cutting-edge comedies and dramas in the 1970s, Altman’s pictures in the 1980s faltered. He lost some of the value in his stock that he had gained after such hits as M*A*S*H and Nashville. However, he had a strong come-back in the 1990s with The Player and Short Cuts, and he made a few more interesting movies in the last ten years of his life.
One of these was The Gingerbread Man, based on an original story by legal-thriller author John Grisham. Apparently, Grisham had also tried his hand at the screenplay, too, and successfully sold it. Altman, however, rewrote it himself, and then Al Hayes (credited for the film’s screenplay) finished it. Curiously, the picture is more of...
By Raymond Benson
Eccentric, quirky, and often brilliant director Robert Altman had a hit-and-miss career spanning six decades. After a mostly spectacular run of cutting-edge comedies and dramas in the 1970s, Altman’s pictures in the 1980s faltered. He lost some of the value in his stock that he had gained after such hits as M*A*S*H and Nashville. However, he had a strong come-back in the 1990s with The Player and Short Cuts, and he made a few more interesting movies in the last ten years of his life.
One of these was The Gingerbread Man, based on an original story by legal-thriller author John Grisham. Apparently, Grisham had also tried his hand at the screenplay, too, and successfully sold it. Altman, however, rewrote it himself, and then Al Hayes (credited for the film’s screenplay) finished it. Curiously, the picture is more of...
- 11/28/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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