Still Breathing (1998)
He had a vision of the perfect girl. And if he follows his heart, he'll find her.
Brendan Fraser (George of the Jungle) and Joanna Going (Phantoms) star in this heartwarming romance where pure unconditional love tries to heal a cynic who's been burned once too often.
Fletcher McBracken (Fraser) met his true love in a late-night vision. Now he’s out to match the face that haunts his mind to the woman of his dreams.
Roz (Going) is a sexy con artist out for one thing - money. She’s ready and waiting for the next wealthy man to fall for her alluring charms.
When a chance meeting brings these opposites face-to-face, Fletcher finds the woman he has been searching for, and Roz thinks she’s found her next victim. Can anyone resist the compassion and honesty of a man ready to give up his heart?
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STILL BREATHING, will be an acquired taste for many people, or - Porkchop
STILL BREATHING, will be an acquired taste for many people, or
better appreciated by those who are fascinated by the game of
seduction between humans. It may be a bore for others with a
smaller attention span or perhaps a touching picture for the
right kind of audience.
It fully succeeds in its aims, of establishing an inner peace,
calling attention to being in touch with one's own inner child
or innocence, and emphasizes the human and social aspects of
people, vs the physical, intellectual, for example.
The strong point of this picture, is the strong visual component
that is appealing, the calmness and peacefulness that also
characterized Brendan Fraser's appearance in an earlier movie,
PASSION OF DARKLY NOON. As such, the script appears to have been
tailor-ordered, custom fitted, made to order for Fraser, who
reprises his role as a low-key, in-control, modest, unambitious
man who seeks out the more artistic, introspective aspects that
life has to offer, as his central goal.
Both Joanna Going and Ann Magnuson are amusing in their rapport
with Fraser's character, bringing their own personality and
strong style to the visual aspects of the movie, contributing to
the appeal to audience coupled with some soft piano numbers over
the 90 mins of the movie, and some percussion or horn numbers,
too, forming the soundtrack.
It's a time-travel for viewers, until a certain point, at which
Going's character reveals her secret, that she is a grifter,
playing rich or modestly wealthy single men for their cash, in
exchange for the illusion of romance or of a personal
relationship. At that juncture, the movie seems to slow down
considerably, and the script becomes perhaps over-worked,
over-intellectualized, overwhelming viewers with a flood of
literary, musical, and visual artwork aspects. By thrusting
these onto the audience, the viewers are drawn back out of the
story
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STILL BREATHING, will be an acquired taste for many people, or - Porkchop
STILL BREATHING, will be an acquired taste for many people, or
better appreciated by those who are fascinated by the game of
seduction between humans. It may be a bore for others with a
smaller attention span or perhaps a touching picture for the
right ...