Review of Bright Lights, Big City (1988) by Sheila Benson for Los Angeles Times — 04 Jul 2018
While Bridges is a capital stylist, "Bright Lights" needed a great deal more than style. (Real emotion, for one thing. Believability might also have been nice.) And while Fox is puppyish and charming, his character, Jamie, has to go through a real epiphany during the film's weeklong time frame and Mr.
Fox is hard-pressed to suggest a two-Excedrin headache.
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This review of Bright Lights, Big City (1988) was written by Sheila Benson and published by Los Angeles Times on 04 Jul 2018.
Bright Lights, Big City has generally received mixed reviews.
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