THE SCOUNDREL'S WIFE

[Tim Curry]

My Review

I got to see Scoundrel's Wife this weekend. It's good, Tim's good--he doesn't die!

Tim steals some scenes, but he does it with a very class preformance. We all know he can be magical, but this role proves he can be believable. He plays a 'real' person with real motivations and emotions. It was a gem!

The movie itself is good, but needs to be expanded,it's too much of an 'insider' movie, not everyone understands the workings and motivations of the culture of a small Catholic fishing village located in the US. It needs to be fleshed out a bit.

Julian Sands was pretty amazing, I have seen him only in horror movies before. I can't stand Tatum O'Neil, period. She was miscast I think, as the village scapegoat and disgraced widow.

All in all, it was a good little movie and Tim proved he has a lot more substance as an actor than he has shown before. I thought I caught a glimse of it in the gawdawful 'Wolf Girl.' His Harley had a whimsical sweet sadness that I hadn't seen in his previous roles.

Review:

Plot: Set in Louisiana in the summer of 1942, after U-boats have sunk American ships, when rumors fly in a small Louisiana bayou town that a local is helping the Germans.

From The Times-Picayune, New Orleans own fine newspaper, here is part of a review by New Orleans own fine reporter, Chris Rose, who is on the right in the picture above.

Lights! Cajuns! Action!
A feature film cast and crew set up shop in Cut Off (town in Louisana)
By Chris Rose, Staff writer/The Times-Picayune
In the summer of 1942, German U-boats expanded their terrorist operations from the Atlantic seaboard into the Gulf of Mexico and started attacking ocean-going freighters and merchant marine tankers.
The idea was to disrupt American commerce in any way possible, and knocking off a banana boat off the coast of Tampa was as good as anything else. Closer to home, in Cajun Country, there were persistent rumors that summer that the Germans had found local hosts to feed them and pass along shipping logs.
"Growing up around here, you always heard the same story," says Michelle Benoit, a screenwriter from Cut Off. "From Belle Chasse to Delcambre to Cut Off, the stories were always the same, exactly the same: There was always a priest who had a short wave radio who was aiding the Germans, and there was always someone who was selling bread to the enemy. I guess it was a product of the paranoia of the times."
Indeed, there are oral histories passed down that document the occasional banishings of Catholic priests from coastal towns because their innocence in these matters seemed gravely in question. All of this has become the premise of a film currently shooting in South Louisiana, a movie co-written by Benoit and her husband, renowned Louisiana filmmaker Glen Pitre. "The Scoundrel's Wife" is the story of rumors that beset a small bayou town and a family's struggle to withstand them. The local priest is a suspicious alcoholic, and the arrival of a mysterious doctor with a German accent only muddies the water.

Hope it gets released soon.

Directed by: Glen Pitre

Written by: Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit

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Last revised on 3-27-2002 by Linda Fletcher
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