DAY AT THE BEACH

DAY AT THE BEACH Nick Veronis, Catherine Kellner (1998, Arrow, 93 mins., unrated) Writer-director Veronis leads the largely unknown cast of this dreary discount indie about some young blue-collar New Yorkers on a fateful lark in the Hamptons. The darkly comic casualties include a fisherman who gets fatally beaned by a flying briefcase and a retired ravioli maker who has stolen a bundle of Mob money -- but such plot points are almost incidental to the generally dawdling proceedings, devoted mostly to the actors' bland improvisations of barely written roles. REEL GOODIES (0:31) Veteran character actor Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club) makes a thankless cameo as a detective. THE LAST DETAIL Jane Adams, woefully under-utilized here as a wife along for the ride, was previously seen, to much better advantage, in the suburbia-skewering Happiness. She's currently a shrink in Mumford. C-