Unstrung Heroes

I really liked this film. Kudos to Andie for not looking at all like a model. Solid dramatic work from Richards, and good direction from Keaton. My biggest criticism is that the stacks of newspapers and junk in the uncles' apartment were unrealistically neat. Whoever did the set design has never seen the "real deal," and it shows! They did manage, however, to avoid pinning the film to a specific time and place, which allowed the film to seem "apart from normal experience," somewhere between reality and someone's very personal dreamworld. Unstrung Heroes is not a big film. It has no definitive message, and it may never become well-known. It was made in an artful manner, rather than for box office receipts, however, and that is one quality I deeply respect.