Intersection - January 21, 1994

Intersection

Tagline(s): Make every move as if it were your last.

Released: January 21, 1994

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Genre: Drama

Directed by Mark Rydell 

Stars: Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, Jennifer Morrison

Rotten Tomatoes: 10%

Metacritic: Not rated

Budget: $45 million

Box Office: $21.3 million

Synopsis

Richard Gere is Vincent Eastman, an architect, racing along a country road in British Columbia when he swerves to avoid hitting a stalled vehicle and collides with some of the beautiful countryside. But what got him here? Told in a series of flashbacks, we soon find out how his relationship with three women, his wife (Sharon Stone), his mistress (Lolita Davidovich) and his daughter (Jennifer Morrison) led to this event.

Recollections

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Review

This film might have otherwise been called 'Everybody Loves Richard' in a film that can only be described as a vanity project for Gere.

It starts at the end and laboriously works its way back to the beginning. If that sounds somewhat art-house then let me dispel any illusion of thematic depth here. The film has nothing new or interesting to say.

Lolita Davidovich has a slight Manic Pixy Dreamgirl energy, however fleeting, whereas Sharon Stone was nominated for a Razzie for seemingly playing her roll with the least amount of personality with which one can still be considered legally alive. Richard Gere gives a typical Richard Gere performance, minus his esoteric Mr. Blinky thing he later became famous for.

Throw in a scene where Gere's architect opens his latest building, a museum of Native American artifacts, by declaring his full and unquestionable connection with Native culture and architecture and you have a movie as tone-deaf as it is otherwise dull.

The poster, name and tagline are especially odd for this movie as you could easily go into this film thinking it would be a thriller rather than the melodrama it really is and come out quite disappointed. Not that disappointment wouldn't follow in any mindframe.