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TRIXIE

Emily Watson, Dermot Mulroney (2000, Columbia TriStar, 115 mins., R, also on DVD)

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Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Mystery; With: Nick Nolte and Emily Watson; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

C-

By Troy Patterson

Troy Patterson

Troy Patterson is a critic for EW. He lives in Brooklyn.

Alan Rudolph's screwball noir stars Watson as a rent-a-cop who, having stumbled upon a murder, undertakes some amateur sleuthing and transforms herself into a goofy gumshoe. For reasons not made clear, the filmmaker's forced his brilliant ensemble cast (which includes Lesley Ann Warren and Nick Nolte) to utter streams of silly/profound dialogue comprised of malapropisms and punny manglings (''She'd be a parasite for sore eyes.''). Trixie seems intended as Rudolph's answer to The Long Goodbye, but it just feels loooong. C-

Posted Jan 12, 2001

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