Title:
Flypaper
Released: 1997
Runtime: 108 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Plot
Summary: Flypaper is a curious name for
this shaggy-dog film about characters who continually
cross paths as their lives careen out of control.
Craig Sheffer is the ostensible lead, though his hotheaded,
gun-toting criminal is hardly the picture's hero.
He kick-starts the story by kidnapping meth lab chemist
Lucy Liu, and then hunts down his junkie girlfriend,
Sadie Frost, who is now under the care of her crotchety
real estate mogul guardian (Robert Loggia). In the
very next room is John C. McGinley, cheating on his
jealous future bride, Illeana Douglas, with Talisa
Soto, a dominatrix in tight leather. The film plays
out these threads as if they are destined to intertwine
in some improbable climax, but instead they merely
crisscross in passing, finally fraying in a soft,
anticlimactic conclusion. The performers try to have
some fun with their familiar parts, and writer-director
Klaus Hoch tosses in a few curve balls (my favorite
is the knife sticking out of Sheffer's skull like
a topknot, turning the homicidal heist man into a
punch-drunk pussycat), but for all his offbeat humor
and funky twists, nothing in Flypaper ever sticks.
Comments:
A
very good movie, that unfortunately has not been viewed
by many people. The plot is complex, but the way it
is pulled off; this must be one of a very few titles
that was entertaining in the year of 1997. My advice
is everybody should at least check it out!
Cast
overview:
Craig Sheffer .... Bobby Ray
Robert Loggia .... Marvin
Sadie Frost .... Natalie
John C. McGinley .... Joe
Illeana Douglas .... Laura
Sal Lopez .... Leon
Shane Brolly .... Jack
Talisa Soto .... Amanda
Lucy Liu .... Dot (as Lucy Alexis Liu)
James Wilder .... Jerry
Jeffrey Jones .... Roger
Julie White .... Cindy
Movie
scenes preview:
Scene #1
Scene
Description:
In a strange sex scene, we see Lucy Liu take off her
robe to go fully nude before she lies down in an empty
swimming pool with a guy and they go at it while snakes
crawl around them.
featured
actress:
Scene #2
Scene
Description:
Sadie Frost showing us her nice breasts as she gets
pounded up against a headboard while having hard sex
with a guy.
