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(C, Pa, NA, L, VV, A, M) Mild Christian worldview with fatalistic elements; 5 obscenities; mild violence including threats of murder, poisoning, shooting with no bloodshed, man chokes on cork, vomiting, blood dripping from mouth, & bus nearly hits woman; alcohol use; attempted hypnotism; and, positive references to Jesus Christ.
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RECKLESS is a strange black comedy, set during Christmas, which doesn’t have many laughs nor much entertainment. Mia Farrow plays Rachel, a bubbly wife who has a seemingly perfect life: a home, a husband and children. On Christmas eve, her husband chases her out of the house to protect her from a hit man he hired to kill her. As she flees, she is picked up by a benevolent man named Lloyd who takes her home to his paraplegic wife named Pooty. When Tom meets up with Rachel a year later, he pours from a poisoned bottle of champagne that was left on the doorstep. Tom and Pooty drink first and die, leaving Rachel and Lloyd stunned. When Lloyd dies, Rachel is taken in by a kind Catholic nun who uses odd forms of rehabilitation from kick boxing to hypnotism. The end shows Rachel recovered and reunited with her long-lost son.
As black comedies go, RECKLESS has neither sarcasm nor a sense of the macabre. An adaptation of a play, the movie is quite talky, and the sets, even the exteriors, were clearly created on a soundstage. Thus, the movie has a claustrophobic feeling. Most of the dialogue is contrived and stylized to fit the quirky nature of the film. Jesus Christ is recognized and honored in this film, but to little effect. Hence, this movie could be called IT’S A RECKLESS LIFE, full of trouble, never secure and void of any real happiness.
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