{"id":99798,"date":"2012-07-17T03:58:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T10:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=99798"},"modified":"2012-07-16T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T23:00:27","slug":"drunkboat-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/07\/17\/drunkboat-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunkboat Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Drunkboat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Bob Meyer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: John Malkovich, John Goodman, Dana Delaney, Jim Ortlieb, Jacob Zachar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s perhaps something of a nautically-titled coincidence, the meandering\u00a0nature and\u00a0theatrical roots\u00a0that &#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; share with &#8220;Jack Goes Boating,&#8221; Philip Seymour Hoffman&#8217;s 2010 directorial debut. But both movies represent personal passion projects ill suited to cinematic adaptation, or at least sludgy, unresolved, mannered and grating\u00a0in their realized incarnations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; centers around a down-and-out Vietnam veteran and drunkard, Mort (John Malkovich), who has an epiphany of sorts when he glimpses a relative while in a stupor. He subsequently returns to his childhood home in the Chicago suburbs, where his sister Eileen (Dana Delaney) still lives with her son and Mort&#8217;s other nephew, Abe (Jacob Zachar). She&#8217;s at first distrustful and suspicious of his newfound and fragile sobriety, but eventually leaves him in charge of Abe to go on a date out of town. With dreams of busting out of this sleepy one-horse burgh, teenager Abe has dreams of&#8230; buying a boat? Yep.\u00a0And\u00a0his desires dovetail with the latest scheme of\u00a0con man and salvage dealer Fletcher (John Goodman), who&#8217;s puttied and painted up a heap of wooden maritime garbage with an eye on unloading it for a couple hundred bucks. Abe is interested,\u00a0but needs an adult signature on the bill of sale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; is directed by Bob Meyer, and co-adapted from his own (apparently semi-autobiographical) stageplay of the same name.\u00a0Its music occasionally seems to posit that the movie is some sort of vaudevillian comedy, and Fletcher is written as a comedic figure as well. But the movie is a stilted, tonal mishmash, and its insights are spare. &#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; toggles listlessly between the conceptual and specific, never successfully translating to screen ideas that might connect more readily on stage, in the abstract.<\/p>\n<p>As an alcoholic\u00a0ex-poet teetering on the edge of self-destruction, Malkovich is great &#8212; his performance is a showcase for what Robert Abele aptly calls the actor&#8217;s &#8220;louche intensity&#8221; in his review for the &#8220;Los Angeles Times&#8221; &#8212; lost in a boozy self-reflection laced with notes of pained regret. Naturalistic and reactive, Zachar is also good. But Goodman grates, and the movie invests a regrettable amount of time in his pointless shenanigans.<\/p>\n<p>Many other films assay the\u00a0slippery qualities of drunkenness and repentance in far more arresting fashion. &#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; unfortunately just ambles along, in languid fashion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B-<\/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\/drunkboat-movie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/drunkboat-movie.jpg\" alt=\"Drunkboat Movie\" title=\"Drunkboat Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-99822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/drunkboat-movie.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/drunkboat-movie-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Drunkboat Director: Bob Meyer Starring: John Malkovich, John Goodman, Dana Delaney, Jim Ortlieb, Jacob Zachar It&#8217;s perhaps something of a nautically-titled coincidence, the meandering\u00a0nature and\u00a0theatrical roots\u00a0that &#8220;Drunkboat&#8221; share with &#8220;Jack Goes Boating,&#8221; Philip Seymour Hoffman&#8217;s 2010 directorial debut. 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