Five Corners

Classics and Shakespearean scholars of the world, unite! This one is for you! Outside frame #1: Cupids whose arrows are directed toward anger and hatred, not toward instilling love. Inside frames: 1. Snow White rescued from troll-baby by Prince Charming, who... Full review

Set in 1964 Bronx, the film starts off great with the Beatles "In My Life" and just keeps getting better. A psycho Heinz (John Turturro) is released from prison and goes after the woman Linda (Jodie Foster) who put him there.... Full review

Offbeat--to say the least--comedy-drama from director Tony Bill and writer/co-producer John Patrick Shanley combines unforced, unshowy nostalgia with dark (and rather wobbly) comedic undertones. In a troubled Bronx neighborhood in the 1960's, Jodie Foster is a young woman hounded by just-released... Full review

Some interesting performances from people who went on to bigger and better things. Turturro in particular gives a controlled turn to a role that could easily have been over the top. Many discontinuities mar the script, and there are plot elements... Full review

Life in the Bronx in 1964. A psycho gets out of prison and picks up where he left off, affecting the lives of people he knew. Has some funny moments and a couple interesting sub-plots. Excellent cast in this Hand-made indy:... Full review

Even though numerous critics felt that Five Corners' mixture of widely disparate tones was not completely successful, the end result is a surprisingly charming and unique tribute to a time and a place. The script by John Patrick Shanley, who won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Moonstruck, manages to (for the most part) bring these seemingly unrelated stories together into a fairly logical conclusion. ... Full Review

Star-Ledger file photo An unsmiling Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, right, is seen with Democratic presidential nominee New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, center, at his first campaign rally at Sea Girt on Aug. 27, 1932. ... Full Article

In Tony Bill's new movie, "Five Corners," a high school math teacher in the Bronx is struck down on his way to class by a red arrow smack in the middle of his back. ... Full Article

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright 1999 Filmcritic.com Uber-quirky but strangely satisfying Coen escapade, skewering the world of big business (at least as it existed in the 1950s), as a company schemes to drive the price of the... ... Full Article

"I don't want to be in a movie where $40m is behind "kind of a good idea". If you're an actor, that will not sustain you." ... Full Article