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Written by Gregg Shapiro
Nov 4, 2010
Jill Marie Jones as Imogene Cochran and Laura Harring as Anora in "Drool." – Photo: Courtesy
‘Drool’
(Strand Releasing/Upload/Instinctive)
“Drool” is a feature film about an abused wife who goes on the lam with a “sister in crime” after murdering her husband. You can tell that writer/director Nancy Kissam must have watched her fair share of John Waters films. Waters’ use of sexual frankness, violence and other shock value techniques are not a bad thing to imitate. But “Drool” simply doesn’t have the necessary spit to keep things lubricated.
Mousy Oklahoma housewife Anora (Laura Harring of “Mulholland Drive”) is married to the wretched racist Cheb (Oded Fehr), who is verbally and physically abusive to her and their children. Things come to a head when Anora’s friendship with perky new next-door neighbor Imogene (Jill Marie Jones), a Kathy K cosmetics salesperson, develops into something more.
Anora shoots and kills Cheb in a moment of self-defense and then heads east to the safe haven of Kathy K.’s (Ruthie Austin) house with Imogene and the kids, and Cheb’s corpse in the trunk. All but one of the characters has some sort of same-sex interactions or attraction, including Cheb orally servicing his male boss in order to keep his job.
“Drool” has an abundance of ideas, but only a couple of them get are fully developed. DVD bonus features include the original theatrical trailer.
‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’
(Disney)
Sadly, in “Prince of Persia,” Jake Gyllenhaal as title character Dastan doesn’t spend enough time shirtless to justify you spending any time on this big-screen adaptation of a video game.
An orphan born in the slums of Nasaf, Dastan is adopted by a Persian king and raised alongside his sons Tus (Richard Coyle) and Garsiv (Toby Kebbell). Dastan is blamed for the king’s death following a raid on the holy city, the capture of its princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) and a sacred dagger. He, Tamina and the dagger make a narrow escape.
But this isn’t just any dagger. When the handle is packed with the magical Sands of Time, it can turn back clocks like nobody’s business. The king’s evil brother Nazim (Ben Kingsley) is eager to get his hateful hands on it, and with the assistance of the ninja-like Hassansins, his dastardly plot has a good chance of succeeding. Thank goodness, Alfred Molina turns up as cut-throat but comical Sheikh Amar for a few laughs.
The three-disc combo pack includes a Blu-ray, a DVD and a digital copy. DVD bonus features include the featurette “An Unseen World: Making of Prince of Persia.”
“Just Say Love”
(E1/Regent/here!)
Much less a movie adaptation of a play than a play filmed for the screen, the staginess of “Just Say Love” is the least of its problems. Plato-quoting Guy (Matthew Jaeger) sits on a park bench near a construction site reading, you guessed it, Plato. Swarthy construction worker Doug (Robert Mammana) joins him and digs into his brown paper lunch bag, which includes a beer. Doug has good gaydar for a straight guy and immediately begins talking suggestively to Guy. He’s horny all the time because his girlfriend Gita is pregnant. An accommodating fellow, Guy brings Doug back to his place for some non-reciprocal oral sex.
A pattern is established, with no strings attached. But predictably, as time passes, the guys form an attachment. When they eventually have sex together in Guy’s bed, it’s a transformative experience for both men. Then, Doug invites Guy to his home (with Gita away) to meet his newborn son Charlie and spend the night in Doug’s bed. The story takes an unexpectedly hippie-like turn, adding yet another hard-to-swallow aspect to the film.
