Novocaine
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Time Out says
Hmm, dentistry noir. Martin plays Frank Sangster, an easy-going LA tooth doctor with a cornball hygienist-girlfriend (Dern), an occasionally irritating deadwood brother (Elias Koteas), and, it proves, a regulation-issue manipulable libido, exposed by grungy mystery patient Bonham Carter. Enter her mad bad brother Scott Caan, and soon Frank's on the run from hard evidence of murder most gruesome. A tongue-in-cheek comedy thriller riffing on the usual nefarious high jinks, Atkins' debut starts with some neat ideas ('lying is a lot like tooth decay'), but they don't play out; the characters are too shallow, the storytelling too standardised and self-amused, and the visual sensibility that bit too slap-happy for it to take.Author: NB
Release details
UK release:
2001
Duration:
95 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Lynne Thigpen, Keith David, Scott Caan, Elias Koteas, Laura Dern, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Martin, Kevin Bacon
Music:
theme Dany Elfman, Steve Bartek
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