Film No 99 (2018) Nov. 5th. 6:30 PM LUNA PALACE Windsor, Nedlands .
"The story is mostly true" (Titles that gradually fade from the screen prior to the opening scene).
Another of Robert Redford's projects. He bought the rights to Bill Bryson's A Walk In The Woods then insisted he played the lead role fitting of someone much younger, here Redford plays out the escapades of real life bank robber Forrest Tucker; and it's altogether quite charming. Right down to the same title fonts as those of Butch Cassidy, Redford delivers the story of America's most charming thief with aplomb. The story is based on an article of the same name by David Gran of The New Yorker, so there is an element of myth about Tucker and his nomadic wanderings. His scenes with Jewel (Sissy Spacek), his lover in later life, are mini acting master-classes adding to the films charm. If this is Redford's last screen performance then he certainly goes out on his own terms. 9GUMS.
A dull film that wastes Waits and Glover, and distorts reality to pretend white men committing armed robberies are just having fun. Could you imagine the same leniency being shown to a black man doing the same (and, of course, in the real story there was no black member of the gang)?
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