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Caught

1996, Movie, R, 109 mins

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A gripping and superbly acted film noir from veteran independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Penniless and on the run from the cops, Nick (Arie Verveen) stumbles into a mom-and-pop fish store owned by Joe (Edward James Olmos) and his wife Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso). Betty is sexually restless, and her preoccupation with absent son Danny (Steven Schub) -- a would-be stand-up comic trying to make it in L.A. -- verges on the unhealthy. She takes an immediate shine to Nick and offers him a job and a place to stay, setting him up in Danny's old room and giving him Danny's clothes to wear. It's soon clear that Nick is more to her than just a hired hand, and they begin a torrid affair right under Joe's nose. An already dicey situation becomes even more so when the unstable Danny returns home for a surprise visit. What sounds like a lurid THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE knock off is actually a compassionate portrait of frustrated lives. And though the Oedipal subtext often threatens to explode into melodrama, the finely modulated performances and Young's keen social consciousness keep it all in check. leave a comment
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