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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 30 2012, 05:12 PM Post #1 |
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Ever have one of those days? Donald Southerland is a San Francisco health inspector; Brooke Adams is his assistant, and some odd things are happening. First, it rains a strange gooey substance that attached to plants and causes little pods with red blossoms to sprout up all over the city. Then, people start complaining that their loved ones AREN'T their loved ones... they look like 'em, sure enough, but they're not them. Including Brooke's boyfriend. Things must be REALLY tough if you have to go to your local Health Inspector for help, eh? Donny calls on his pals, psychiatrist Leonard Nimoy, poet Jeff Goldblum (yeah, times are even tougher when a poet has to be called in) and mud-bath proprietor Veronica Cartwright to investigate. Pretty soon, they're running for their lives and tryin' hard to stay awake, lest their bodies be snatched. Surprisingly not-bad remake of the 1956 classic, with Kevin McCarthy (as a madman screaming, "You're next!" in traffic) and director Don Seigel (as a cab driver) back from the original, and Robert Duvall in a cameo for some reason we can't know. Philip Kaufman directs. The small town setting of the first one worked better; this is more 1970s post-Watergate paranoia, which doesn't exist anymore, shockingly, since now the U.S. government actually CAN spy on us or even order our murder without even a warrant. Holy shit. People are more concerned that Gallop is cooking its books to favor Obama than it is concerned that Obama has decided he can order people to be destroyed. Funny world we've built for ourselves. |
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