Video Review

TRIXIE

Reviewed by Troy Patterson | Jan 12, 2001
EW's GRADE
C-

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

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-

Originally posted Jan 12, 2001 Published in issue #577 Jan 12, 2001 Order article reprints
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