The Spring Movie Review
The Spring Review
"The Spring" Overview
Rating: NR
2000
Cast and Crew
Director : David JacksonProducer : James Chory
Screenwiter : J.B. White,David Jackson,Kathleen Rowell
Starring : Kyle MacLachlan,Alison Eastwood,Joseph Cross,George Eads,Aaron Pearl,Zachary Ansley
It's Tuck Everlasting -- but for grown-ups! Er, grown-ups who don't want much
of a challenge from their TV movies.
In The Spring (tagline: "Live spelled backwards is evil.") Kyle MacLachlan
stars as a hapless widower who, through an incredible series of unfortunate
coincidences, ends up stranded in a town that just so happens to harbor a
fountain of youth. Only all the residents agree to never leave the town and
commit suicide on their 100th birthdays. The point of the youth serum is thus
rendered irrelevant -- why live forever if it's not forever and it's in the
podunkest town in the country?
MacLachlan and his son agree to stay but turns out Agent Cooper has a problem
with the suicide thing ('cause it's an assisted suicide). So he runs away.
Incredibly stupid, the movie is redeemed only by MacLachlan's natural acting
ability and apparent oblivion to the fact that he's appearing in a piece of
utter tripe. God bless 'im.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
