Writer-director Veronis leads the largely unknown cast of A Day at the Beach, a 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.


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