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The Daytrippers (1996)
Tucci, Scott are infinitely reliable
Simple plot, witty dialogue, and tremendous actors make this movie a pleasure. Campbell Scott is the most underrated actor of our generation. His bit part in Daytrippers makes the movie worth seeing. Schreiber is great, as well. The Malone sisters are tolerable, but the humor begins and ends with their incessantly controlling mother.
Big Night (1996)
As perfect as a movie can get...
One of the most beautiful movies ever filmed, Big Night captures storylines of family, art, love, business, food, and the American Dream. Tucci and Shalhoub are both endearing and frustrating as Italian brothers struggling in unaccepting 1950s New Jersey. Campbell Scott is brilliant in his role as the slimy car salesman. The food, however, steals the show. In the mold of Like Water for Chocolate, the scenes of incredible cuisine are enough by themselves to make the movie bearable. The script and performances of the actors make the movie a classic.
Groundhog Day (1993)
rare morality in film
Groundhog Day is wonderful for its comedy, but its lesson of morality is timeless.
Hearkening to Kubrick's (and Burgess's) A Clockwork Orange, Groundhog Day provides singular insight toward the human dilemma of what it means to be good.
Goodness cannot be forced by authority, was the lesson from Alex and his Droogs. Phil Connnors teaches us that acts of altruism must be performed for the sake of altruism -- not for any material or personal gain. Kindness, self-improvement, sincerity... these are rewards in and of themselves. Murray's comic wit and deadpan face imparts this message with more warmth than any actor has before or since.
When you forget what it means to be selfless, Groundhog Day should be the movie in your VCR.