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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD EAN: 0758445905922 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 09, 2004 Running Time: 93 minutes Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Rick is a rare feature that makes intelligent and exciting use of audience bewilderment. From its opening scenes, this quirky update of Verdi's Rigoletto thrusts viewers into a bizarre corporate culture in which mean-spiritedness, adolescent high jinks, and general dimwittedness are the norm, but there is no explanation as to why. Yet it's impossible to turn away from the madness and decadence of scenes in which Bill Pullman's middle-aged executive, Rick, engages in monstrous behavior toward subordinates or exchanges in fraternal obscenities with his young, clueless boss, Duke (Aaron Stanford), who is routinely enjoying anonymous, online sex with Rick's daughter, Eve (Agnes Bruckner). Screenwriter Daniel Handler, better known to the world as author Lemony Snicket, and director Curtiss Clayton slowly introduce enough background to unlock the central tragedy in this tale, and lead everyone to a shared, startling destiny. Cinematographer Lisa Rinzler (Pollock) sets everything against a fantastic cityscape and voyeuristic hell. --Tom Keogh Description: Rick is the sort of guy you probably once really liked: a devoted husband and a loving father, he lives in a lavish Park Avenue apartment paid for by a high powered corporate job. He has a sharp sense of humor and enjoys a cold, well-prepared martini but the world's gone wrong for Rick. His wife is dead. His teenage daughter Eve is distant as she approaches womanhood. His job gets more and more degrading with each passing day. His young boss Duke is an aggressive punk who forces Rick literally to his knees and spends his time talking dirty in Internet chat rooms, while Rick has to do the dirty work. And it seems you can't even have a martini in this town without getting a curse from an enemy or sinister proposal from an old friend. No wonder his sense of humor is getting a little nasty. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - No Classic, But Still a Great TimeIf the guys from IN THE COMPANY OF MEN had been even more cartoonishly evil and crass, they would be the characters in this movie. And the fact is, those very traits make some bits in this satire absolutely hilarious. Both of the male leads in this film, Rick and Big Boss (who is half Rick's age), seem to compete for the designation of Bad Guy. Equally sleazy, both characters pull stunts that will literally make you gasp. The opening exchange between Bill Pullman and Sandra Oh may be ... Read More Rating:  - A Waste of Time & the Acting TalentThis film is pointless, for many reasons. Not the least of which is that it's a bad bastardization of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'Amuse (and Verdi's Rigoletto). It gets off to an intriguing start, though. Meet Rick (Bill Pullman) - the office jerk. He's a fairly unlikable guy, but that's because his wife was killed. Rick is also pushed around by his less-talented, half-his-age boss. So an old schoolmate says for $10,000 he'll kill any one person of his choosing. What ... Read More Rating: - Stylish and an interesting plotThe only bad part is that it is too long. Still with its flaws, it's still an interesting story about karma. Rating:  - If this isn't a cult classic, it darn well should beTalk about your series of unfortunate events! Scriptwriter Daniel Handler (the man behind Lemony Snicket) delivers up a thoroughly adult tale of power, greed, lust, innocence lost, and seemingly foreordained tragedy in Rick. The movie may be patterned on Verdi's opera Rigoletto, yet the presentation of this story is uniquely memorable; it's a brilliant, intelligent, quirky dark comedy/morality tale that really should be a cult classic. Bill Pullman has finally made a believer out of me; I don't ... Read More Rating: - A triumph for Bill PullmanRick is a chilling and haunting drama that perfectly blends tragedy with cold comedy. Everyone involved in this film should be commended for turning Daniel Handler's script into such a un-hollywoodish feature. But for me, what made this film work above and beyond Handler's script/Clayton's excellent direction/Lisa Rinzler's moody cinematography is Bill Pullman's portrayal of the title character Rick. Pullman has given us some interesting and powerful works over the years, I especially ... Read More |
