Nicholson's latest film now playing at theaters
Nicholson's latest film now playing at theaters
JAKARTA (JP): This is the time in the week to excuse yourself
from the humdrum daily routine.
Movie ticket prices may have increased by an average of 20
percent, but taking in an hour or two of celluloid is still much
cheaper than a night out at a bar or fancy restaurant dinners.
Two new offerings on local screens, a comedy and an action-
packed thriller, are ready to take you into their worlds.
As Good As It Gets. Cast: Helen Hunt, Jack Nicholson.
Director: Paul Verhoeven.
At a ripe old 61 years, Jack Nicholson, one of the greatest
working actors alive, keeps on going from strength to strength.
Beginning his Hollywood career as an office boy in MGM's
cartoon department, Nicholson is today the recipient of two
Oscars, one as Best Actor in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and
the other for Best Supporting Actor in Terms of Endearment. He
also has Oscar nominations for eight other roles.
In his latest movie, As Good As It Gets, he is Melvin Udall, a
cynical and aging writer romancing Helen Hunt and harassing Simon
Nye (Greg Kinnear), a talented gay artist living across the hall
of his apartment.
Hunt is no ordinary actress. Best known for her hit role in
the sitcom Mad About You, this former child star gained big-
screen fame in Twister, where she battled dreaded tornadoes for
the sake of science and humanity.
In As Good As It Gets, she is no longer the tough, tornado-
chasing scientist, but the only waitress who is willing to serve
breakfast for the sarcastic Melvin. She is also raising her
chronically ill son.
The Replacement Killer. Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino.
Director: Antoine Fuoua.
Known for his leading role in God of Gambler sequels in
Mandarin movies, Chow Yun-Fat gets a new role as John Lee, a
Chinese immigrant who moves to America to assure safe grounds for
his family in their move from Beijing.
But Lee's violent past as a professional hit man comes back to
harm him as a powerful underworld figure, Mr. Wei, assigns him to
kill a police detective Stan Zedkov (Michael Rooker).
Instead of completing his deadly assignment, Lee fights Wei
with the help of document forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino).
Sorvino, Academy Award winner for her stunning performance as
a prostitute in Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite and in real life a
student of Chinese studies at Harvard, soon becomes Wei's target
for helping Lee.
If these two movies are not to your cinematic taste buds,
Alien Resurrection, Tomorrow Never Dies, Devil's Advocate, Kiss
The Girls and Witch Way Love may be more to your liking. (ste)