Andie MacDowell has scored a role as a vengeful preachers wife in the film As Good As Dead. We get the following skinny from our friends at the movieweb:
As Good as Dead stars Elwes as Ethan, a left-wing extremist who goes on the run after killing the reverend (Cox) behind a white supremacist group. MacDowell plays the widow who hunts him down with two redneck accomplices (Frank Whaley, Matt Dallas). Jess Wexler plays Ethan’s estranged wife, and Laura Harring plays his neighbor.
Andie MacDowell avenging the death of her racist Klan/Preacher husband is certainly a break from the moisturizing commercials that she’s been doing! I miss seeing Andie around, she has a “kind lady next door” look about her. Which makes this casting all the more “left field,” and I like it.
It’s about time we had some left wing extremists on the screen. The right wing always hogs the best extremist roles, and that’s a shame. You have to share, fair and square. I am personally waiting for a horror film about a fur activist that hunts seal trappers in the Canadian north (and makes opera slippers from their hides).
