Kelly Gately Movies
- 1996
With a big tip-o'-the-hat to The Big Chill, this slacker comedy chronicles an all-night of several friends in their twenties. They have come to mourn the suicide of their friend. As the evening progresses, the friends talk about their pasts, presents and futures. Sex, death, life and race relations also get discussed and in between innumerable bottles of beer and ounces of marijuana smoke games get played. In the end the games turn more serious as the friends begin pairing off to spend their remaining hours seeking solace in each other's arms. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Based on a novel by William Wharton, A Midnight Clear is set in the Adriennes Forest in December of 1944. A group of American GIs, all of whom have been together a bit too long, cling to the vestiges of their peacetime interests to remain sane. None are brilliant soldiers, though Will Knot Ethan Hawke is the one who exhibits the strongest leadership qualities. Billeted at a chateau, the soldiers begin hearing strange noises emanating from a graveyard, the handiwork of a group of mischievous German soldiers. The two enemy camps draw closer to one another as Christmas approaches, due in great part to the influence of GI Vince "Mother" Wilkins Gary Sinise. A sudden, impulsive hostile act results in the wholesale -- and unnecessary -- slaughter of the German soldiers. Though the exteriors are convincingly mid-European, the film was actually lensed in Utah. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, (more)
