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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
The Muse
93 minutes (PG) EV
Director: Albert Brooks
review by Jeff Young
Sharon Stone is alternately flighty and needy, charming and inspiring in this cool
comedy about Hollywood starring, and directed by, cult comedy filmmaker, Albert
Brooks. He plays a troubled screenwriter ("they're saying I've lost my edge"), and
Stone is, apparently, the perfect cure for his writer's block. Andie McDowell plays
Brooks' too understanding wife, Jeff Bridges is the friend also heavily dependent on
Stone's influence, while various funny cameos from James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and
Rob Reiner keep this whole ultimately conceited enterprise alive whenever Brooks' wit
and invention flails - which, thankfully, is not often. It will, of course, help if
you're a fan of Brooks' somewhat neurotic sense of humour (in many ways he is a poor
man's Woody Allen), yet there's enough sharp writing here to please anyone who
enjoyed The Player and would like to see a rather less maniacal interpretation
of the Tinsel Town blues.
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