Walking With Herb Review: Edward James Olmos Lifts Faith-based, Golf-centric Comedy Drama
Divine intervention enables an aging bank president to stop puttering around and compete for a golf championship.
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Director: Ross Kagan Marks
With: Edward James Olmos, George Lopez, Kathleen Quinlan, Jessica Medoff, Christopher McDonald, Billy Boyd, Johnathan McClain, Tami Lee Santimyer.
Running time: Running time: 110 MIN.
Since we’ve already had faith-based features involving football (“Woodlawn,” “Facing the Giants”), baseball (“Where Hope Grows”), basketball (“Slamma Jamma”), boxing (“Carman: The Champion”), competitive skateboarding (“Hardflip”) and even mixed martial arts (“The Fight Within”), it was doubtless inevitable that someone would produce a movie where the Lord works in mysterious ways on the golf course. Robert Redford’s “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (2000) didn’t quite qualify, given the n
Blue Sky: The 1990s nuclear drama that won Jessica Lange her second Oscar
Family and military tensions blow up in Tony Richardsonâs final film, ignited by Jessica Langeâs Oscar-winning turn as a troublesome army wife revealing unexpected reserves of resilience.
19 January 2021
Blue Sky (1994)
It took a while for audiences to be able to see Blue Sky. Completed in 1991, what would become the final film of Tony Richardsonâs exceptionally prolific career went unreleased for 3 years, due to the demise of its distributor, Orion.
The kind of characterful, modestly budgeted American drama that was a 1980s/90s staple but which seldom gets the green light these days, Richardsonâs film, available now for the first time on Blu-ray, finally appeared in 1994. By that time, sadly, the director himself had died. But the filmâs respectful reception constituted a worthy, belated tribute â one crowned by Jessica Langeâs best actress Oscar win for her boldly