Review

The Alarmist (1999)

EW's GRADE
C-

Details Release Date: Feb 02, 1999; Movie Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Mystery and Thriller; With: David Arquette and Stanley Tucci; Distributor: Columbia Tri-Star

Ever get the urge to travel to a filmmaker's home, brandish a weapon, and demand to know what his opus was supposed to be about? Based on the 1990 play Life During Wartime, the comedy The Alarmist about home-security peddlers begins as a mild satire on sleazy salesmen, with Stanley Tucci teaching David Arquette the ropes and Arquette putting the moves on a housewife (Kate Capshaw). Then it gradually degenerates into...oh, where's my AK-47? C-

Originally posted Feb 05, 1999 Published in issue #470 Feb 05, 1999 Order article reprints

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