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Published Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Tatyanavvganqbjkvv.
Going All the Way A unique, one-of-a-kind movie! Both Jeremy Davies and Ben Affleck has earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and is considered by many to be one of the best films of the year! Maybe thats what makes the movie so good.The great cast includes Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan, Rachel Weisz. The movie moves on like a dream and end leaving you wanting for more.
If you love watching Jeremy Davies or Ben Affleck, you are deffinetly going to want to watch Going All the Way.
The Dan Wakefield novel upon which this film was based has been hailed by critics as another Catcher in the Rye, but you wouldn't know that from this unenlightening adaptation. Jeremy Davies (Saving Private Ryan) plays a superneurotic, Korean War veteran who develops an unlikely friendship with another, Neal Cassady-like vet (Ben Affleck) as well as a taste in art, New York City, and college girls. The trouble with the film is that it refuses to yield important information about its central figure. Davies's character has some kind of undefined problem with his mother, religion, ambition, masturbation, and much else, but without access to his internal dialogue, we only see him as a twitchy insect for whom regular sex with a beautiful girlfriend inexplicably does nothing for his ego. Don't blame Davies: he does this nerve-damaged bit all the time, and in the hands of a good director his performances are controlled and economical (see Spanking the Monkey). However, his director on Going All the Way--Mark Pellington--has no idea of how to shape the actor's abilities. --Tom Keogh