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ULEES GOLD THE BEEKEEPING
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Director Victor Nunez's richly photographed Ulee's
Gold drew critical acclaim for Peter Fonda's and
Patricia Richardson's subtle performances--and premiered
as the Festival Centerpiece in 1997's Sundance Film
Festival. Vividly photographed and set amid southern Florida's
tupelo swamps, the film's narrative hinges on the
evolution of a more-than-platonic connection between neighbors
Ulysses, Ulee for short (Fonda), and Connie (Richardson).
Known for her role on TV's Home Improvement, Richardson
makes a satisfying foray into film with this appropriately
smaller role where she manages
to hatch out of potential typecasting. Fonda's independent,
stubborn, and reserved Ulee anchors the narrative. He is
a bee keeper whose struggling small business is all that
keeps him focused in the wake of his wife Penelope's
death, his daughter-in-law Helen's (Christine Dunford) drug
addiction, and the de facto single-parent obligations
he takes on to his adolescent granddaughters. (Notice
the Homeric references.) Soon the plot twists, however,
in the sociopathy of Eddie and Ferris, friends of
Ulee's jailed son--a sociopathy that is also the impetus
for the family to confront its dysfunction and for
Connie and Ulee to see more in each other than mere neighborliness.
Thankfully, Nunez foregoes the bathos of a Hollywood
ending and leaves us satisfied on one hand with Helen's
healing
and Eddie's justice but uncertain, though hopeful, about
Ulee's next step. --Erik Macki
From: Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video
Guide
A small gem from writer-director Nuñez about a
taciturn beekeeper in northern Florida whose ordered
life is disrupted when his son sends an SOS from prison.
His wife is in trouble, and while Fonda has had no
use for her since she abandoned her two daughters (whom
he is raising) he tries to help--and gets caught
in a quagmire involving his son's former partners in crime.
Slow and steady, like the leading character, but rewarding
entertainment, with Fonda a tower of strength in the best
part he's ever had. Copyright© Leonard Maltin, 1998,
used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam,
Inc.
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