![]() ![]() The role is thinly written as a crude jerk, and Pesci plays him as another of his hot-headed Italians that long ago became tiresome. The screenplay by journalist Mark Jacobson probably doesn’t do justice to the Joe/Charlie character. Then a brief shaft of light, a brief flash of optimism, darts through their dreary lives. Armando wants to win her over, though, because he senses who really runs things at the ranch.Īs he does so, the two discover they have much in common. To Grace, bringing a former champ out to the ranch to train and for her to manage is just another one of her husband’s not-always-successful entrepreneurial schemes. The Grace-Armando dynamics are slow to heat up. Let’s just say Grace and Armando have reasons to believe that life is short. Perhaps the biggest alterations involve the health conditions of the wayward lovers. Names have been changed - Joe is now Charlie Bontempo, Sally is Grace and Oscar is Armando Bruza - but the facts have been modified only slightly. So perhaps the film will play better in the living room. The film seems like one of those cable television films that looks at bizarre-but-true news stories in greater and often fictional detail. ![]() Whether these are strong enough to attract adult viewers curious to see Mirren as a brothel queen is unlikely. ![]() One, of course, has the Oscar-winning actress who played Queen Elizabeth now playing a different kind of queen, a fact acknowledged when her husband (Joe Pesci), cries out, “Who do you think you are? The queen of f***in’ England?!” The other is that this is the first time she has worked with her husband, director Taylor Hackford, since they met on the set of “White Nights” in 1985. ![]()
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