Having delivered some wonderfully charming movies with That Sinking Feeling, Gregory's Girl and Local Hero, Bill Forsyth seemes to have spent the years since 1983 trying to pull himself out of a nosedive.
This ambitious mess never made it to England and having just seen it on video I can see why.
A fair cast, Robin Williams, bit parts from Ewan McGregor, John Turturro, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott and EastEnders Gavin Richards make this worth a look. However, the story - a wild, rambling yarn about one man through the ages (or something) is just awful.
Worth a look but well done if you make it to the end.
This ambitious mess never made it to England and having just seen it on video I can see why.
A fair cast, Robin Williams, bit parts from Ewan McGregor, John Turturro, Robert Carlyle, Ken Stott and EastEnders Gavin Richards make this worth a look. However, the story - a wild, rambling yarn about one man through the ages (or something) is just awful.
Worth a look but well done if you make it to the end.