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  • The Ref (1994): Lookback/Review When Denis Leary holds a hostile family hostage over the holidays, he finds out that there’s no cure for Christmas. Richard LaGravenese, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, has had a rich and varied film career of unusually high quality. His adaptations of such moving literary accomplishments as The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer and Beloved suggests a creative force with a profoundly compassionate understanding of the human heart in crisis. Therefore, one might expect a certain sort of product were he to team up with his sister-in-law Marie Weiss to pen a piece about family values especially for Christmas. “Both Marie and I are Italian Catholics who married into Jewish families,” LaGravenese said to the New York Times in a contemporary interview, “so we do have those big holiday dinners.” This winking nod to the holidays’ traditional family turmoil hardly begins to cover the breadth of the alienation and emotional violence in the script he and Weiss provided Ted Demme for the culty 1994 black comedy The Ref. Read More

    The Ref (1994): Lookback/Review

    When Denis Leary holds a hostile family hostage over the holidays, he finds out that there’s no cure for Christmas.

    Richard LaGravenese, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, has had a rich and varied film career of unusually high quality. His adaptations of such moving literary accomplishments as The Bridges of Madison County, The Horse Whisperer and Beloved suggests a creative force with a profoundly compassionate understanding of the human heart in crisis. Therefore, one might expect a certain sort of product were he to team up with his sister-in-law Marie Weiss to pen a piece about family values especially for Christmas. “Both Marie and I are Italian Catholics who married into Jewish families,” LaGravenese said to the New York Times in a contemporary interview, “so we do have those big holiday dinners.” This winking nod to the holidays’ traditional family turmoil hardly begins to cover the breadth of the alienation and emotional violence in the script he and Weiss provided Ted Demme for the culty 1994 black comedy The Ref.
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