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Who’s in it: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Billy Zane, Danny Huston, Daryl Hannah
What it’s about: An apparent murder threatens the career of an ambitious Colorado candidate for governor, the grammatically challenged Dicky Pilager (Cooper). When Pilager reels in a corpse during the taping of an environmental political ad, his campaign manager (Dreyfuss) looks for links between the corpse and Pilager’s enemies.
Worth watching? **1/2
“An instructive, multicharacter, multicultural lament about the multiple ways in which the rich and powerful stick it to the not rich and good. It’s also another in the director’s growing multitude of socially conscious, intelligently written movies … that can’t connect dramatically to save their lives.”
