Movieville

Wow! Real characters! No, not characters, human beings. John Sayles does what he does so well - perfectly developed people in a slightly imperfectly developed script. Still, a breath of oxygen after a spring full of iffy Canned Film Studio Product. Note: ending reflects the title, which may bother those used to tidyness. A-

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly