Bright lights big city book
One of my favorite movie genres is the New York Movie, and not far behind it in the rankings is its sister sub-genre, the 1980s New York Movie.
The casting decision itself wasn’t the problem, but Fox’s overwrought execution and the soft edges of McInerney’s disorganized screenplay fall flat in what could have been a seminal 1980s New York movie. In this adaptation of Jay McInerney’s 1984 bestseller, Fox was a counterintuitive choice to play the wayward drug addict mourning the loss of his wife and mother. That wasn’t the first dramatic leap for one of the most famous celebrities of the 1980s one year earlier took on the role of Jamie in James Bridges’ “ Bright Lights, Big City” (1988). Fox, calling him a “little television actor,” to harden Fox’s demeanor and performance. On the set of Brian De Palma’s “Casualties of War” (1989), Sean Penn reportedly would taunt Michael J.