{"id":94984,"date":"2012-05-25T07:18:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=94984"},"modified":"2012-05-25T07:18:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:18:53","slug":"mighty-fine-movie-review-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/05\/25\/mighty-fine-movie-review-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Fine Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Mighty Fine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Debbie Goodstein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Andie MacDowell, Rainey Qualley, Jodelle Ferland<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A deadly dull melodrama of familial dysfunction and emotional abuse in the face of patriarchal anger management, writer-director Debbie Goodstein&#8217;s &#8220;Mighty Fine&#8221; leans heavily on autobiographical inspiration for dramatic heft and connection, a tactic that proves ill-advised. A somewhat drab and unimaginative telling further dents this offering of already rather limited psychological insights and pat conclusions and catharses.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1970s, &#8220;Mighty Fine&#8221; centers around a so-surnamed husband and father, small businessman Joe (Chazz Palminteri), who uproots his family and moves them from Brooklyn to New Orleans. His wife Stella (Andie MacDowell) is a Holocaust survivor for whom Joe wants only the material best, so he overextends himself buying a big home and steady stream of extravagant gifts for Stella and their two daughters, Natalie (Jodelle Ferland) and Maddie (Rainey Qualley, MacDowell&#8217;s real-life daughter). Unfortunately, his apparel business suffers a downturn, and Joe turns to loan sharks to keep his lifestyle afloat. The stress of this leads to flashes and fits of anger that frequently leave his family scared and\/or in tears, but Joe seems unable to curb his destructive behavior, even (and perhaps especially) as his eldest daughter grows more willing to confront him about it.<\/p>\n<p>First-time narrative feature director Goodstein has a good instinct about the toll of parentalization and walking-on-eggshells management that such sideways bursts of adult behavior can take on children, noting that the family worked hard to &#8220;keep that monster in a cage.&#8221; Too often, though, she deploys terribly obvious voiceover (&#8220;My dad missed the whole show &#8212; where the hell was he?&#8221;) that neither advances the plot nor illuminates characters&#8217; feelings in a manner that isn&#8217;t already evident. Goodstein tells rather than shows, consistently missing opportunities to dig deeper into the effects of Joe&#8217;s lashing out.<\/p>\n<p>None of this falls on Palminteri, really, whose performance does a good job of highlighting some of the underlying fear and insecurity that informs Joe&#8217;s behavior. The rest of the casting, however, is somewhat problematic. Ferland is more or less fine, but egregiously underused; her character comes across as a delicate cipher, the &#8220;artistic child,&#8221; and it&#8217;s not something that Ferland is experienced enough to communicate in unspoken strokes. MacDowell and Qualley, meanwhile, are out of their element. The former&#8217;s ridiculous, stilted accent does her no favors, and Qualley, in her film debut, can only unconvincingly pantomime the white-hot flashes and swings of teenage emotion. Nothing about their reactions to Joe&#8217;s fits feels particularly nuanced or well sketched out, and the well worn grooves of dramatic engagement that the film follows renders &#8220;Mighty Fine&#8221; anything but.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: D+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: D+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty_review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty_review.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mighty Fine \" width=\"539\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty_review.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty_review-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/mighty_review-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Mighty Fine Director: Debbie Goodstein Starring: Chazz Palminteri, Andie MacDowell, Rainey Qualley, Jodelle Ferland A deadly dull melodrama of familial dysfunction and emotional abuse in the face of patriarchal anger management, writer-director Debbie Goodstein&#8217;s &#8220;Mighty Fine&#8221; leans heavily on autobiographical inspiration for dramatic heft and connection, a tactic that proves ill-advised. 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