Bright Angel

This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic squabbles. Linking up with Lili Taylor, a Wyoming-bound transient with a checkered history, Mulroney embarks upon an odyssey of self-discovery. Unfortunately, he persists in ...more

With an outstanding pedigree -- acclaimed fiction writer Richard Ford adapts two of his stories for an outstanding cast of solid performers -- Bright Angel turns out to be a mild disappointment. Like Thomas McGuane and Jim Harrison, Ford loves to people the broad expanses of the West with damaged relationships and reckless behavior. Ford's style is to have his characters speak in semi-articulate aphorisms ("Being with is like being alone," says one man to a woman). In McGuane's best screen work, ...more