Video Review

Video Review: 'The Real Blonde' (1998)

EW's GRADE
C+

Details Rated: R; Genres: Comedy, Romance; With: Tom DiCillo, Daryl Hannah, Catherine Keener and Matthew Modine

A thoroughly superficial movie about superficiality, in which writer-director Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion) scores lazy satirical points off of such easy targets as soap operas, music videos, glossy magazine ads, and women who — you might wanna sit down for this one — dye their hair. The relationship between lovers Modine and Keener, which is clearly intended as counterpoint to the artifice that surrounds, is as phony as everything else. C

Originally posted Aug 21, 1998 Published in issue #446-447 Aug 21, 1998 Order article reprints
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