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Description
This listing is for Beyond Suspicion VHS Video Tape.
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Rated: R (Restricted)
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
VHS Release Date: July 24, 2001
Run Time: 109 minutes
This unusual and truly noteworthy film recently landed in our video shop without the trumpet blast that new releases usually carry along with them. A long time fan of Jeff Goldblum and a budding fan of Anne Heche, feeling adventurous and somewhat bored, I thought I would give it a try and haven't regretted the decision for a second.
This is a story about identity, love, emotional crises and that time of life (some point between thirty-five and forty) where some of us get hit with a major wake up call, and decide to throw in the old life and start a new one. Please do not let this general description of ~Auggie Rose~ put you off - because it is not your run of the mill comedy/drama, but something a lot more.
The plot is basic with a touch of originality: John Nolan (Jeff Goldblum) is a successful life insurance salesman that one night walks into his local liquor store to buy some special wine he has ordered. He notices that the label is damaged and asks for another bottle. The assistant walks in the back to retrieve it when the place gets robbed. The assistant, unaware of the crime in progress, walks back out to the counter and the shooter pops him one. Nolan holds the man in his arms and accompanies him to the hospital where he dies. While in the process of dying, a connection is made between Nolan and the victim, Auggie Rose, who turns out to be an ex con, recently released from a twenty year prison sentence. He feels somehow responsible for the murder and begins investigating the man's life. The more Nolan learns about Auggie, the more inextricably drawn into his life he becomes. The journey of obsession begins.
After a chain of subtle stimulators and interesting circumstances, Nolan is pulled even further into Auggie's life, and assumes his identity. And the trouble starts.
This film had all the charm and strangeness of a Paul Auster novel. Specifically, his early books like 'The Music of Chance' or 'Moon Palace'. I really can't compare ~Auggie Rose~ to Auster's film 'Smoke' for example, but their ambience or general atmosphere are very similar. This film lacks that mainstream gloss and has real depth without being mawkish. (More cynical viewers might diasagree) The original soundtrack helps to create that feeling of strangeness, and is an excellent piece of work in its own right.
Anne Heche's performance is polished and quite charming as Auggie's prison pen pal: meeting Nolan, believing it is Auggie and the relationship ensues. Surprising to some, Goldblum and Heche mesh as their on screen presence as lover's works well. Writer/director, Mathew Tabak, is unknown to me, but if this is his first major instalment into the Hollywood arena, he has a great career in front of him. This film deserves to be seen.
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