Sundance reveals big movies

More from the Sundance Film Festival write previews over at Rope of Silicon with some movies boasting big name status.

Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear star in The Matador with Brosnan as a lonely hitman who meets a travelling salesman (Kinnear) in a Mexican Bar and they strike up a life changing relationship. Really there’s not much more to give away from the blurbs, but it does hint at some life altering situation for them both. I’m guessing it’s something to do with the hitman’s life and not the travelling salesman’s!

Still, it sounds really interesting, and I think a character driven piece is going to show Brosnan off well to an audience that mainly thinks of him as only an action star as Bond. It would also suit Kinnear perfectly and hopefully get him some more exposure that he richly deserves.

Kevin Bacon makes his Directorial Debut in Loverboy, a film which portrays a neglected daughter who becomes overly possessive, in another character driven piece that shows an emotional journey of a woman as she turns from mothering to loving too much.

The cast will no doubt have helped Bacon a lot, starring Sosie Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick, and not only family either. The cast includes Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt, Campbell Scott and Marisa Tomei. What a line up, it promises much and it could well deliver considering it’s at Sundance with the writer Shari Frilot saying that it…

…successfully embodies the delirium that results from confusing self-love with motherly love while it also speaks universally about the challenges of single parenthood.

Game 6 stars Michael Keaton fresh out of White Noise, and in the words of RoS:

Also starring Robert Downey Jr. and Catherine O√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢Hara this drama is described by Sundance’s Geoffrey Gilmore as a wonderfully rarefied world of a man whose affairs are crumbling even as he plunges forward to open a new play.

Director Michael Hoffman takes the simple story of a down-on-his-luck playwright and mixes in a poisonously powerful critic (Downey, Jr.) lying in wait, setting up a finale that challenges the fates and opens Nicky to a new understanding of life’s vagaries.

I think that makes it sound lusciously interesting, and again the two talents of Keaton and Downey pitted together makes it sound all the more exciting. These are two excellent talents, Keaton just seems to keep getting missed (or makes bad decisions) and Downey is just a catalogue of bas decisions, although to be fair both have produced some excellent movies in their past.