Intersection

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Summary: LOLITA, LOLITA, LOLITA
Review: One reason to watch this film: Lolita Davidovich. If you don't fall in love with her character and become completely mesmerized by her looks . . . you need to check your pulse. Her portrayal as Olivia is right on. Richard Gere and Sharon Stone also put in good performances, but you keep asking yourself as you are watching, "Yo Rich! Are you kiddin'? Choose the redhead!" Completely bashed by critics . . . I think critics can't stand Gere or Stone and Lolita got caught in the crossfire. She's a talented actress and deserved much more ado for her performance.

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Summary: THE "INTERSECTION" OF GREAT ACTING AND DIRECTION
Review: Richard Gere guides you through his life in a series of flashbacks that details his troubled marriage and the meeting of his significant other. The movie clearly keeps your attention by cleverly combining flashbacks with the present day to tell a story in an unconventional way. The storyline can probably be applied to almost anyone who views the movie. We all have shared this struggle with emotion. Maybe the critics see too much of themselves in this movie, therefore they have cast it aside in order not to shine any light on their own lives.

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Summary: Live Every Moment, as if it were your last.....
Review: That was the tag line from this great movie, about choices, love, and death. Thats really what life is all about, if you sit back and think about it. This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I am so happy that my favorite actress was involved in it SHARON STONE brings a strong hard preformance after her best role ever in SLIVER, she comes back with a bang. This movie is definetly not going to let you down. Its about a Vancouver Architect who is in love with his wife, and his mistress. When the two women cross paths, his life becomes shattered. This movie will have you crying for more, as it ends with a.......

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Summary: "Intersection" is one dead end after another.
Review: There are a number of things that run off the road in Mark Rydell's "Intersection," one of which is a severe identity crisis that resonates from its lack of character development and intriguing material. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, one of whom is his wife, the other his mistress, but the film moves so awkwardly, ambling towards an ending that is doomed from the start, that we never come to care for his personal struggle, nor those of the women in his life.

The film uses everything from flashbacks to premonitions and dreams to tell its story, yet with everything that's going on, there is a strong absence of interest in any of it. We know from the start that the film's end cannot be joyful: it opens with a car accident, in which Vincent Eastman (Richard Gere) careens out of control. Before anything else happens, we are suddenly taken to the past, where we see him as a successful architect who has been separated from his wife of sixteen years, and has been living with another woman for some time.

The other woman is Olivia (Lolita Davidovich), a perky, upbeat magazine writer whose zest for life has seemingly reawakened Vincent from a deep sleep, that which he attributes to his spouse, Sally (Sharon Stone), whose chilly demeanor and icy words are supposedly what brought their marriage to its crossroads (a flashback later in the film reveals the actual reason for their separation).

At first, it looks as if Vincent is totally committed to his new love, but then things change. He spends more time with his daughter, who pleads with him to come to the islands during her spring break. He ultimately does not, but the fact that his wife is also his coworker doesn't make matters much easier. Soon enough (as if we knew nothing of where this road was headed), Vincent finds himself in a tight spot, caught between his love for Olivia, and his past with his family, for whom he stills cares.

All of this might actually carry some heft if not for the absolute lack of good characterization. Other than what we see on the outside (Olivia's perkiness, Sally's despondency), there is little to suggest that these people have any real emotions underneath their outwardly facades. However good the performances from Gere, Davidovich, and Stone (especially Stone) happen to be, the characters they inhabit have no feelings that connect us to their tribulations, thus leaving us to wander aimlessly in search of something with which to identify.

For instance, other that his adultery, what was it that actually started the Eastmans to grow apart? A minor flashback featuring the two engaging in lite bathroom foreplay, during which she takes a phone call, suggests such elements, but the back-and-forth editing, the storytelling fashion, leave little room for expansion on such important plot points. Such is the case with Vincent's initial involvement with Olivia; we see the two meet, talk, warm to one another, but given the fact that we know next to nothing about his marriage, why even go to the trouble of understanding this relationship? Rather than allowing us the chance to get to know the people and their lives, the film gives us mere glimpses from the outside without ever taking any of the material to a higher, more involving level.

So what is the movie, really? A drama? An erotic thriller? A TV Movie of the Week trapped on the big screen? We may never know. What I do know is that "Intersection" is one dead end after another, it's title suggesting a metaphor that the film itself is too brain-dead to realize. In the end, it all amounts to a squandered cast, a lifeless script, and the realization that Sharon Stone could end it all less painfully with an ice pick.

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Summary: Such an exellent American film ... so underrated ? Why ?
Review: Why it is so underrated ? May be because it doesn't have normal good ending ... but in my point of view - it does . The scene between Lolita Davidovich and Sharon Stone at the end ... THIS what made a real good end to this fine film .
Richard Gere is stuck between his controlfreak reach wife ( Sharon Stone )and a love of his life ( Lolita Davidovich ). He stuck between must and want . He has to pick , but he cann't . And we think , we know his final desision ... but we don't . At the last minute of this film we do find out ... and we still surprised .