"DESERT BLUE" HAS ALL THE STUFF THAT INDIE BUZZ IS MADE OF - BUT NO SNAP FIVE STAR LIFT Edition

Take a young director fresh from success at the Sundance Film Festival, add a cast of Generation-Z notables, stir in a script about government cover-ups, place them all in a photogenically bleak Mojave landscape, and what have you got? A recipe for indie-circuit buzz. Specifically, those are the raw...

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Published inSt. Louis post-dispatch
Main Authors Williams, Joe, Of The Post-Dispatch
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published St. Louis, Mo Pulitzer, Inc 18.09.1999
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Freeman, Morgan J
Motion pictures
Ricci, Christina
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Summary:Take a young director fresh from success at the Sundance Film Festival, add a cast of Generation-Z notables, stir in a script about government cover-ups, place them all in a photogenically bleak Mojave landscape, and what have you got? A recipe for indie-circuit buzz. Specifically, those are the raw ingredients of "Desert Blue," the second feature from young director Morgan J. Freeman (no relation to the actor). Yet even with a cast that includes such hot commodities as Christina Ricci, Casey "Brother of Ben" Affleck and Kate "Daughter of Goldie Hawn" Hudson, the movie doesn't live up to its own possibilities. A professor of popular culture (John Heard) is touring the attractions of the American roadside with his TV-star daughter, Skye (Hudson). The sullen Skye wants to hurry back to Los Angeles, but first the professor forces them to visit the world's largest ice cream cone, a plaster curiosity in the desert oasis of Baxter, Calif. (population 87).
ISSN:1930-9600