Valentino Returns

Predictable, contrived, and tedious, VALENTINO RETURNS is yet another example of what happens when filmmakers run out of fresh material and original ideas. Not that this film, directed by Peter Hoffman from a screenplay by Fat City author Leonard Gardner, doesn't have a few effective moments, but overall it doesn't have much impact. Frederic Forrest and Veronica Cartwright give fine performances, but even these impressive players are overshadowed by the film's lackluster direction and choppy editing. Moreover, Hoffman and Gardner don't seem to have been able to decide whether they wanted to focus their story on the estranged spouses played by Forrest and Car...