A Hole In One

Writer-director Richard Ledes' dreadfully misconceived, pitch-black, film-noir comedy seeks to find the humor in the post-WWII mental hygiene boom, and the result is way off target. It's National Mental Health Week, 1953, and Dr. Harold Ashton (Bill Raymond) has come to Ice Town — an American township somewhere in the general vicinity of BLUE VELVET's Lumberton — to promote what he firmly believes is the future of mental hygiene: the transorbital lobotomy, during which a long ice-pick is inserted through the patient's eye socket and on into the frontal lobe of the brain. As brutal as it sounds, pretty young Anna Watson (Michelle Williams) thinks a lobotomy might be j...