Friday, April 01, 2005

Dummy (DVD review)

Dummy (2002) starring Adrien Brody. Brody plays a slacker whose ambition is to be a ventriloquist. He even buys a creepy ventriloquist's doll and starts practicing. The movie pursues an offbeat course with a variety of interesting characters. But the potential for drama or comedy involving Brody and the dummy is never fully realized, and the film becomes basically a simple, not very believable love story. One suspects that this movie was released mostly on the strength of Brody's Oscar win for "The Piano." Grade: B-

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