Advantages: Chris O'Donnell Disadvantages: But not his best acting.
Straight down to business then?. "The Bachelor" on DVD.
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THE FILM
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Gorgeous Chris O'Donnell (Robin in recent Batman films) plays Jimmie Shannon a self-confessed commitment-phobic bachelor. As all around him bachelor friends are slowly being caught like wild mustangs by a rope, Jimmie begins to contemplate proposing to his girlfriend Anne (Renee Zellweger). But before he's thought it through thoroughly, she catches the brides bouquet and he loses his grip of freedom. In The Starlight Room - a restaurant known for nervous men with rings in their pockets and girls knowing they'll leave being on their ways to becoming honest women Jimmy blurbs out a less than romantic proposal "You win!" Anne declines as every woman with an ounce of self dignity would. She decides to do a heart-broken runner to Europe but unbeknown ...
e.j.kingham 26.05.2005 (08.06.2005)
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Advantages: Great acting Disadvantages: Abit depressing but with lighter parts
This Steve Buschemi's debut as writer and director. Made in 1996 it is a relatively unknown film but was a critcal if not commercial succes for Buschemi
The film is about an alcoholic named Tommy (Steve Bushemi), the film starts and he is trying to wangle one more drink out of the barmaid 15 minutes after 'time'. The barmaid Connie(played by Carol Kane - Hester Street, Taxi) is obviously familiar and serves him with Tommy, which is an interesting tenet to the film as everyone knows everyone in this small suburb and everyone knows Tommy and he seems to recoil from it in shame. The bar 'Trees Lounge' is always populated by Tommy, an elderly alcoholic Bobby and another successful alcoholic Mike (Mark Boone Junior - Batman Begins, Lonesome Jim) Tommy starts to form a friendship with Mike thinks he is a looser. Mike is a strange character ...
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