Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Theatrical Release: 11/25/1998(USA)
Release Date: 03/30/1999
SubTitles: English/French
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Humor, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Dean Parisot, who won a live-action short Oscar, made his feature directorial debut with this black comedy from a producer team that included
Barry Levinson and
Lawrence Kasdan. A philandering stepdad is the victim of vengeful Mrs. Lever (
Catherine O'Hara), who sends her sons out to scare him to death. Cobra helicopter pilots Dorian (
Luke Wilson) and Angus (
Jake Busey) accomplish this by strafing the forest at night as the stepdad runs in terror. No one knows that pregnant Burger-Matic cashier Sally (
Drew Barrymore) was the stepdad's mistress. However, since Burger-Matic and Cobra headsets share the same radio frequency, the notion surfaces that maybe Burger-Matic workers overheard something; Angus suggests that Dorian take a job at the fast-food joint in order to determine just who knows what. Once on the job, however, the situation gets twisted after Dorian falls hard for Sally. The chain-smoking Mrs. Jackson (
Shelley Duvall), Sally's trailer-trash mother, turns up, as does her redneck father, Red (
Lanny Flaherty). In an inside film reference, Angus mentions the classic "Lamb to the Slaughter" episode of
Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Shown at the 1998
Toronto Film Festival.
~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
