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Club Land

2001, Movie, R, 107 mins

Club Land: Review

CLUB LAND
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The familiar struggle between oedipal longing and childhood guilt might have made for captivating drama, if we actually cared about any of the characters in this period drama. Set in the world of 1940s New York dinner theater, Willie Walters (Alan Alda) and Stuey Walters (Steven Weber) are a father and son team of agents, who struggle to stay afloat despite the ghosts haunting them from the past. Willie is a bitter, aging tyrant, who browbeats his son and his clients. Stuey struggles to find his footing with his career, his father, and the women in his life. Haunted by provocative dreams and visions from his past, Stuey floats from one relationship to another, unable to break the stranglehold of a mysterious female specter. When he finally meets Stella (Jenna Hoffman), a woman who seems to understand his suffering and pursues him despite his emotional shortcomings, Stuey turns tail and runs. We spend the rest of the narrative, unwrapping the psychological mystery that envelopes both father and son, crippling their ability to relate to one another or any one else in their lives. Making characters without hearts sympathetic is a challenge this Showtime original production is unable to overcome. leave a comment --Susan MacIntosh
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