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Actors: James Spader, Jason Robards, Joanne Whalley, Charlotte Lewis, Piper Laurie
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Storyville |
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Based on the novel "Juryman" by Frank Galbally, this movie stars James Spader as Cray Fowler, a young lawyer with powerful family ties who is running for Congress. After getting a note at a party, Cray meets Lee (Charlotte Lewis) at her father's dojo for a sexual encounter. It gets taped but Cray doesnt know. With him way behind in the campaign he reaches out to a local black leader Nathan LeFleur (Michael Warren) for votes. Nathan gets Cray to start thinking about the Fowler family skeletons and his father's death. The next night, a beaten up Lee shows up at Cray's apartment and tells him that someone hired her father to tape them having sex. He goes with her to the dojo to get the tape and gets into a fight with Lee's dad. Cray winds up beat up badly and the father is dead. Lee gets blamed for it and Cray decides to defend her. In the course of his investigation Cray finds out that his father swindled the local people out of the ownership of their property because there is oil underneath the land. In the middle of the court room drama Cray brings in a witness to debunk the theory that Lee did it which caused a huge scene in the court room in which Cray gets shot. Once healthy, Cray wins the election and finds out that the tape was done by his Uncle Clifford (Jason Robards) to keep the family power.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Storyville |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- election campaign
- preventing leader from being blackmailed
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
Kind of violence:
- guns
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
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