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California Myth

1999, Movie, NR, 98 mins

California Myth: Review

CALIFORNIA MYTH
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A romantic comedy that pokes toothless fun at California lifestyles and, more seriously, addresses questions of national and personal identity. Peruvian-born attorney Roberto Klein (Tyrone Power, Jr.) has recently moved to Los Angeles with his pregnant, American wife Jill (Sherry Hursey), and is working in the word processing department of a white shoe law firm owned by a friend of his father-in-law while he awaits the results of his California bar exam. While Jill is thoroughly absorbed by her pregnancy, attending an apparently endless stream of touchie-feely classes aimed at over-prepared mothers-to-be, Roberto is restless and feels increasingly alienated from the future he sees shaping up. He's sexually frustrated, feels shut out of the American dream, and is totally humiliated when, after an evening of sailing with his buddies from work, he's pulled over for DWI and ordered to attend alcohol awareness classes with a bunch of losers. But it's in class that he meets Angie (Laura Johnson), a predatory redhead who instantly becomes the subject of his fervent, guilty fantasies. Angie persuades him to take acting classes with her: How apropos that her drama teacher believes aspiring thespians should rehearse in the nude, and that she's preparing a production of the bawdy Lysistrata, about women withholding sex as a way to control their husbands. The film is stolen right out from under the leads by supporting player Patricia Charbonneau, who plays a man-hating, sex-loving family therapist whom Jill and Roberto set up with their pal Joe (John Posey), an aspiring novelist. Not only does she look fabulous in lingerie and a jet-black Louise Brooks bob, but Charbonneau brings to her role a sparkle and bite that the rest of the film sorely lacks. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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