Novocaine
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.
Details
Release details
Duration:
95 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
David Atkins
Screenwriter:
David Atkins
Cast:
Steve Martin
Helena Bonham Carter
Laura Dern
Elias Koteas
Scott Caan
Keith David
Lynne Thigpen
Kevin Bacon
Helena Bonham Carter
Laura Dern
Elias Koteas
Scott Caan
Keith David
Lynne Thigpen
Kevin Bacon