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Volume 38 Issue 8
January 23, 2001

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Spring movies try to recapture holiday magic, money
Hollywood heavyweights return with ‘The Wedding Planner,’ ‘Joe Dirt’

BY BECKY RASMUSSEN
MESA LEGEND
Submitted Jan. 23, 2001

Movie patrons are recovering from Hollywood’s huge money-making winter season and are hoping for as many quality offerings as "Unbreakable," "Cast Away" and the unstoppable "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

Whether or not the magic and money stirred at the box-office during Christmas-time will be re-generated has yet to be seen, but with new films starring the seductive Jennifer Lopez and SNL graduate David Spade, movie-goers just may be tempted by the local cineplex.

Here are a few of the possible highlights and low-lights for the forthcoming winter/spring movie season.

Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Sparks fly between Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey, stars of the new Columbia Pictures romantic comedy "The Wedding Planner," hitting theaters Jan. 26.

"The Wedding Planner"
Your wedding day-it should be the happiest, most memorable and perfect day of your life. There is only person that can pull this off: the wedding planner.

Jennifer Lopez ("The Cell"), stars as Mary Fiore, an A-list San Francisco wedding planner who thinks she has finally found love.

But what she doesn’t know is that her new found love, Steve Edison (Matthew McConaughey, "EDtv"), and her career are about to collide head-on. Opens Jan. 26.

"Saving Silverman"
From Dennis Dugan, director of "Big Daddy" and "Happy Gilmore," comes the comedy "Saving Silverman," a comedy starring Steve Zahn, Jack Black and Amanda Peet as a beautiful, cold-hearted seductress who digs her claws into Darren Silverman (Jason Biggs).

After several failed attempts to save their friend J.D. (Black) and Wayne (Zahn) turn to Neil Diamond to help save the day. Opens Feb. 16.

"Joe Dirt"
From the same production team behind "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" comes a boisterous new comedy that says, "Life is a Garden. Dig it."

David Spade stars as Joe Dirt, a trailer park-raised 8-year-old, who lost his parents at the Grand Canyon.

Now, in his jacked-up economy car, mullet hairdo and stonewashed jeans, the optimistic Joe hits the open road in search of his lost folks.

From one misadventure to another, Joe makes his way to a Los Angeles disc jockey (Dennis Miller), where he becomes the punching bag for insults, but not before the story takes a dramatic twist. Opens March 16.

"The Brothers"
The romantic comedy, "The Brothers," follows four African-American men as they take on some of life’s biggest challenges: love, sex, friendship and relationships.

This dramatic cast is drawn up of Morris Chestnut, Bill Belamy, D.L. Hughley and Terry White.

Along their career track, in between basketall and bar-hopping, the brothers learn valuable lessons about women and relationships that will change their dating habits forever. Opens March 23.

"The Tailor of Panama"
From Academy Award nominated director John Boorman ("Deliverance," "Hope and Glory") comes the new spy thriller/ black comedy film "The Tailor of Panama."

Pierce Brosnan stars as a ruthless British spy who has been banished to Panama.

Opposite Brosnan co-stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush, as an ex-con, who reinvents himself as a tailor for the rich and powerful of Panama.

We’ll see if the charismatic Brosnan can recapture the success generated by his work in the James Bond franchise, when the film opens March 30.

Whether we’ll see another "Cast Away" or another "Autumn in New York," movie-goers will have plenty of choices.

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