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Title: Steamy Underbelly of Hollywood
Review: Nobody captures it better than Paul Schrader. I enjoyed this latest Schrader offering even better than American Gigolo. Kinnear is perfectly cast as Bob Crane-the "Ward Cleaver" father figure corrupted by power and sex. Willem Dafoe is at his slimy best portraying the parasitical hanger on John Carpenter. The scene in the nightclub where Crane breaks off their relationship is particularly chilling and Dafoe comes off as the creepiest movie villain since Richard Widmark some 50 years prior. This film is not so much a biography of a man as it is a chronicle of temptation and lust; and it is gloomily filmed and expertly cast. Oscar nominations for the two principal actors should certainly follow and ones for directing and screenplay as well. The best movie I have seen thus far in 2002.
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