One doesn't often encounter movies about hairpiece salespeople, so credit must go instantly to someone who dares to be different when contemporary cinema generally demands something more simple-minded; this film is anything but.
From the very beginning, there are visual clues that the story deals with more than meets the eye--beginning with some incredibly vivid coastal shots; the camera will occasionally just sort of cruise off scene to pick up significant wall art, or highlight something about a neighborhood; meanwhile a zany story pits hair salesmen against each other in a race against time.
The included preview hints that this is a Christmas film, but it is only in the way that Meet John Doe might be, using the holiday as a vague thematic background. On the surface, there are lots of laughs, but underlying that surface is a touching idea that only starts to broadly surface in the last ten or fifteen minutes, and it knocked me for an emotional loop, gently. By the way, I found that subtitles absolutely necessary, as the dialect is often quite difficult to understand, and its nice to have some assistance. Another underrated gem from Barry Levinson
From the very beginning, there are visual clues that the story deals with more than meets the eye--beginning with some incredibly vivid coastal shots; the camera will occasionally just sort of cruise off scene to pick up significant wall art, or highlight something about a neighborhood; meanwhile a zany story pits hair salesmen against each other in a race against time.
The included preview hints that this is a Christmas film, but it is only in the way that Meet John Doe might be, using the holiday as a vague thematic background. On the surface, there are lots of laughs, but underlying that surface is a touching idea that only starts to broadly surface in the last ten or fifteen minutes, and it knocked me for an emotional loop, gently. By the way, I found that subtitles absolutely necessary, as the dialect is often quite difficult to understand, and its nice to have some assistance. Another underrated gem from Barry Levinson