Not particularly incisive, but refreshingly unpretentious, JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES explores one man's premature midlife crisis.
Screenwriters and co-directors Bram Towbin and Mark Halliday wear their titles ironically as they follow the adventures of thirty-four-year-old Ryan Legrand (Jay O. Sanders), a private investigator who seems to specialize in recording marital infidelities for his divorce-bound clients. His
partners in the none-too-successful business are equipment whiz Vernon Jackson (Michael Jeter, whose homeless drag queen was one of the highlights of THE FISHER KING) and cameraman Dean Erickson (Alan Ruck), a low-key bohemian-type whose constant razz...
Released:
1992
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins