Bash
Get past Calista Flockhart's ghoulish visage and you'll find a memorable, if tough, movie in Bash, a videotaped version of LaBute's Broadway play. Bash comprises three vignettes of actors-speaking-to-audience. Two are monologues, and one is a duet (Flockhart plays two of the roles). All three revolve around Mormonism and violence (or murder) -- a dichotomy that must please LaBute to no end for its sheer ugliness. While Miss Flockhart's performance is a bit over-the-top ("big" as one newspaper described it recently), Rudd and Eldard are quite creepy as their unlikely evil-doers. Recommended for the strong of stomach.
Aka Bash: Latterday Plays.
Rating
3.5 out of 5 Stars
- Director: Neil LaBute
- Producer: John Purdy
- Screenwriter: Neil LaBute
- Stars: Calista Flockhart, Paul Rudd, Ron Eldard
- MPAA Rating: R
- Year of Release: 2000
- Released on Video: Not Yet Available
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