Halfway through, "Mask" veers out of control, as it begins to focus less on Rocky and more on his mom, who has a drug problem. Much of Cher could have been lost as well, with no damage to the movie.
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But there's other fat that could have been trimmed instead - Anna Hamilton Phelan's script is full of redundancies, as the same emotional and character points are made over and over. The studio's instincts were right - at over two hours, "Mask" is still way too long.
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The movie needs more of this texture, and in its original cut, it had more - two scenes, of a biker's funeral and of Rocky and his mom singing for the bikers, have been removed. In "Mask," suburban quiet exists only to be shattered by erupting mufflers and slammed doors. There's a wonderfully anarchic scene at a bikers' picnic, where Rocky and his mom chat with friends while a huge brute named Dozer bashes his colleagues around in the background. Set against this extreme milieu, and the horror of his own handicap, Rocky's essential ordinariness becomes something to celebrate - "Mask" makes a romance out of just being nice.ĭirector Peter Bogdanovich has a good feel for the bikers' lunacy (they're less Hell's Angels than Heaven's Devils). His mother is a tough-talking moll (Cher) leading a loose life among a crew of bikers who adopt Rocky as one of their own. In "Mask," Rocky's just a nice kid who collects baseball cards, does well in school and fantasizes about a motorcycle trip around Europe. What's extraordinary about "Mask," though, is not the makeup, but the way Eric Stoltz, as Rocky, makes his disfigurement all but disappear in your mind - you're captured by his spirit. Makeup designer Michael Westmore has brilliantly recreated the mask of "Mask," the grotesque brow ridges and vast domed forehead, the way Rocky's face was stretched and tortured by the renegade bone roiling inside it. The movie is based on the short life of Rocky Dennis, a California adolescent who suffered since early childhood from craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, which causes the skull to grow crazily out of proportion. This is real get-out-your-handkerchief stuff, sure to melt the stoniest of cynics. That said, the story it has to tell is so unutterably sad and inspiring that the movie works in spite of itself. Wednesday and Friday, at 484-7070 and online at ."Mask" is a tear-jerker in the sense that your dentist is a tooth jerker - it yanks on your heart with pliers. They may be purchased fromm noon to 5 p.m. Tickets to Movies at The Reg are $7, with an additional $1 theater restoration fee added. Queen Bees is rated PG-13 and is 100 minutes long. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen discovers that it’s never too late to make new friends and perhaps even find a new love. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying “mean girls” the likes of which she hasn’t encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen (Burstyn) moves into a nearby retirement community. The movie stars Ellen Burstyn, Ann Margaret, Loretta Devine and James Caan. The romantic retirement home comedy Queen Bees, will screen Friday at 7 p.m. On August 9, Mayor Eddie Sundquist will make a proclamation of the celebration at 4 p.m. Created by Forte Restaurant, Sam Elliott Appreciation falls on or near the iconic actor’s birthday. Mask will be shown as part of an ongoing, annual celebration of actor Sam Elliott. Mask is rated PG-13 and is 127 minutes long. Motivated by his loving mother, Rusty (Cher), and her boyfriend, Gar (Sam Elliott), Rocky ultimately overcomes pain, loneliness and prejudice to become a role model to his classmates and teachers alike. The film is based on the real-life story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a disfigured but highly sensitive and intelligent teenager. Peter Bogdanovich’s biographical film Mask will screen Wednesday at 7 p.m.