About Last Night…

About Last Night…

If a pleasure of the movie is to see oddities on the screen, a pleasure within another and perhaps deeper one is moments of recognition those times when we can say yes that’s right, yes that’s exactly the way it would have happened. About Last Night… is full with such moments. It has an eye and an ear for how we live now, and it has a heart as well as funny bone.

It’s a love story. A young man and young woman meet, fall in love, spend a year trying to figure out what that means to them. That sounds like a simple story, but About Last Night… is one of the few recent American movies that deal honestly with real people instead of special effects.

If there’s anyone who fears serious relationships more than your average singles-bar customer, it’s a Hollywood producer. American movies will spend millions on explosions and chases rather than show people talking seriously and honestly with each other; after all writing good dialogue takes some intelligence.

And intelligence sparkles through About Last Night…, along with robust comic sense. The movie stars Rob Lowe as a salesman for a Chicago grocery wholesaler and Demi Moore as an art director for Michigan Avenue advertising agency. They meet at a softball game in Grant Park; their romance blooms in Rush Street singles bars served by a kindly bartender who acts as father figure.

At first they are attracted principally for biological reasons (they belong to generation that tends think it’s kind embarrassing sleep first time after you know somebody too well). Then they start liking each other. Then maybe even loving each other although nobody uses word tap dances around it Commitment moment when Lowe offers use his drawer her apartment.

Response offer one movie’s high points hers.

Meanwhile there is counterpoint also: Lowe’s best friend partner work James Belushi; Moore’s best friend Elizabeth Perkins, her roommate fellow warrior singles scene While getting really serious about each other grow possessive.

The story is kind of predictable in About Last Night…, if you have ever been young and kept your eyes open. There are only limited number of basic romantic scenarios for young people in the city, and this movie sees through all them what’s important is what they like sound like look like way talk reveal themselves grow taking chances. Over and over there are moments when you see yourself up there.

Lowe and Moore are two members of the “Brat Pack” from Hollywood who survived last summer’s terrible yuppie singles movie, “St. Elmo’s Fire.” This is the movie “St. Elmo’s Fire” should have been. Last summer’s film made them look dumb and shallow. Either one has had this opportunity to act in any movie “About Last Night…” and they make the most of it.

Moore is especially impressive here. There isn’t a romantic note she doesn’t have to play in this movie and she plays every one of them perfectly.

Belushi and Perkins are good too, making us realize how often movies pretend that lovers live in a vacuum, when in fact when a big new relationship comes into your life it requires an adjustment of all the other relationships–and some discomfort and pain.

They provide those levels for the story, and a lot of its loudest laughs too.

The movie is based on David Mamet’s play “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” The screenplay by Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue smooths out Mamet’s more episodic structure, and adds three dimensional realism. It’s a wonderful writing job, and Edward Zwick, directing his first feature film, shows sureness; his narrative spans an entire year during which interest never lags.

Why are love stories so rare from Hollywood these days? Have we lost faith in romance? Is love possible only with robots or cute little furry things from the special effects department? Have people stopped talking? “Top Gun” was so afraid of a real relationship that its real love affair was with airplanes. About Last Night … is a warm hearted intelligent love story one of the year’s best films!

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