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Title: Story Falls Short
Review: I saw this movie hoping to see a steamy love story involving Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange. It fell short to me. While the performances from Nicholson and Lange are both good, I thought the story just didn't back them up. Basically Nicholson, a con, wanders into this gas station/resturant where Lange is working, he thinks she is hot so he hangs around. Her husband is the owner and a good provider, but he and Lange don't have much in common. She hooks up with Jack(who is now working for them), things start to go wrong, and they end up on the wrong side of the law. To it's credit the end of the picture did surprise me. Nicholson can put a picture on his back and carry it, but in this case there is just not enough going on for him to do it. The movie is painfully slow and the characters while well acted are really not very interesting. Two stars for the two stars.
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