Starry Night

This congealed exercise in labored whimsy won the Audience Favorite Award at the 2000 Newport Beach Film Festival; you have to wonder about the competition. In 1885, a gypsy tells the suicidal Vincent Van Gogh (Abbott Alexander) that he will walk the earth for 100 days in 100 years time. Nearly a century later, the resurrected painter is knocked down by a float at the Tournament of Roses Parade; groggy but delighted, he spots prints of his once-disparaged masterworks everywhere. After recuperating, Vincent romances fledgling painter Kathy Madison (Lisa Walz) and, understandably enough, has trouble convincing Kathy he's the Vincent Van Gogh, and after "improvin...