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JULIAN PO

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Rated: PG-13; Genre: Drama; With: Christian Slater and Robin Tunney

B-

By Denise Lanctot

JULIAN PO Christian Slater, Robin Tunney (1997, New Line, PG-13, $100.99) This well-meaning but still toothless tale feels like airbrushed Flannery O'Connor: A mysterious but harmless drifter (Slater) stumbles into a small town where he provokes paranoid suspicion until the locals discover his intention -- suicide. Sundry town eccentrics and busybodies attempt to save him, including the nubile maiden (Tunney) who dreamed of a stranger before he arrived.

Despite plodding execution of the fanciful premise, Slater delivers a wry and quietly convincing performance as the enigmatic outsider who becomes the sum total of a community's desires and fears. B-

Posted Jan 30, 1998

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