Novocaine

Novocaine was a very mediocre movie, almost disappointing. The storyline was ok, but could have been a lot better. Plus, the movie was too predictable. This was probably one of Steve Martin's worst movies ever made. The twists they did were... Full review

I was really pleasant suprised with this movie, there is lot of unexcpeted situations,and basically this a movie about that how American dream can become American nightmare. Helena Bonham Carer is great, even better then in "Fight club#, it seems that... Full review

This is the ultimate 6 degress of Kevin Bacon movie, if you've seen this you can link almost any modern actor to Bacon in about three moves, with A Few Good Men and Apollo 13 you can't lose, Bwa ha ha... Full review

There are no words to describe this complete disaster. Some movies are not good, or bad, but this one is disgusting and stupid. I hated every single moment of this mediocre film. What a terrible mistake in Martin's career.... Full review

The only reason I didn't turn this off half-way through watching was because I'm a Steve Martin fan. This is the worst movie I've seen with him. It wasn't funny. The affair scenes were corny. There was no character to root... Full review

This has been a quite entertaining movie. Not really a top notch movie, not really working as a comedy, but still pretty entertaining. It started out veeery slow and boooring - it took a little too long for it to... Full review

To start with, any movie in which Helena Bonham Carter gets naked is a good thing.This is a weird weird movie, but good pacing and casting saves it. A more disciplined director could have turned it into a cult classic.Steve... Full review

I must say that about halfway through this movie I thought about bailing out on it. Steve Martin's character kept making SUCH bad decisions that it was painful to watch and you could easily see where it was going.But I'm... Full review

The suspense of this beautifully written plot manages to keep you squirming while the actors dazzle you with comic flourishes, thick sexual tension, and all-around excellent performances. A great film. Steve Martin has proven that he has a knack for... Full review

I would never have seen Novocaine had it not been for my love of Steve Martin. But what amazed me in this film were the genius performances by the other actors: a terrific character turn for Laura Dern (didn't mean... Full review

But he never seems vulnerable or desperate enough to be a convincing film noir fall guy: even when Franks world is meant to be collapsing around him, Martin appears dapper, light on his feet, two steps ahead of the game. Martin might seem ideal to play a sleek professional with a secret yen for anarchy: outwardly placid and handsome in a Dad-like way,' hes an effective match for the childlike petulance of Helena Bonham-Carter (basically reprising her tough-girl character from Fight Club). ... Full Review

The cast are all outstanding....The twists and turns of the story, plus the great cast, very much save this film from the effects of weak direction.....Novocaine' has a fine cast and is based on an interesting concept....The entertaining Steve Martin narration is in bits and pieces and would have been much better....The good use of 'gimmicky' visuals doesn't make up for the fact.... ... Full Review

Novocaine is admirably weird.... ... Full Review

Atkins, in terms of his visual choices, isn¿t without talent; the problem is definitely more the writing than the directing (although his flashy style does feel like a desperate attempt to cover the emptiness of the script and storytelling). Elias Koteas and Scott Caan, as the psycho brothers, aren¿t too bad - at least they both bring some much-needed energy to this forgettable story. ... Full Review

And yet for all this postmodern funhouse symbolism, Novocaine 's biggest concern still seems to be with the act of lying....These characters are simultaneously disarming and imposing....The telescoping camera is only a single instance of the movie's pervasive, Orwellian suspicion of image-gathering instruments.....This imagery is even more pervasive in the movie's extra-narrative apparatus:....But Novocaine thwarts these expectations, largely because of Atkins' occasionally scattered, often inspired, and al ... Full Review

Century Fox Home Entertainment. On shelves August 28. Steve Martin plays Frank, a dentist with a near-perfect life - a great house, a thriving practice, and a relationship with shapely dental hygienist Jean (Dern). ... Full Article

Well, we'd be precisely where we are now, which is dentistry without that particular local anaesthetic. Novocaine - the trade name for the compound procaine hydrochloride, or procaine for short - began to fall out of favour in the 1940s,... ... Full Article

Novocaine has in its favor a terrific cast who throw themselves into this quirky, dark comedy about lies, sex and dental records. Steve Martin gives it his all as Frank Sangster, a respectable dentist engaged to his beautiful, preternaturally organized... ... Full Article

NOVOCAINE: Film noir.Starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter and Laura Dern.Directed by David Atkins.(R. 95 minutes.At Bay Area theaters.)"Novocaine" is like an anecdote stretched to feature length, more a literary exercise than a movie. ... Full Article

Share Print Email Movie details Novocaine MPAA Rating R for violence, sexuality, language and drug content Running Time 94 minutes Released Nov 16, 2001 (Limited) Distributed By Artisan Entertainment Novocaine, a modern comic takeoff on 1940s film noir starring Steve... ... Full Article

f you didn't already know, Helena Bonham Carter is an expert home-wrecker (ask Emma Thompson and Lisa Marie).In Novocaine , Frank (Steve Martin) is anesthetized below the waist by a drug-addled Carter. ... Full Article