Recently, CBS delivered the new,official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "The Good Wife" episode 19 of season 6. The episode is entitled, "Winning Ugly," and it turns out that we're going to see some very interesting and drama-filled stuff as Alicia and company get attacked with a State's Attorney Election voting recount scandal. They'll try to fight it off, and more! In the new, 19th episode press release: Alicia And Eli Try To Stop A Recount When Potential Voter Fraud Is Discovered In The State's Attorney Election. Press release number 2: When potential voter fraud is discovered in the State's Attorney election, Eli and Alicia are going to take steps to stop a recount by enlisting the help of a well-respected civil rights lawyer, Spencer Randolph (Ron Rifkin). Also, Diane is going to learn she unwittingly submitted false evidence in Cary's case. Guest stars feature: Ron Rifkin (Spencer Randolph), John Procaccino...
- 4/5/2015
- by Chris
- OnTheFlix
Film reviews: 'Everything's Jake'
Everything's half-baked in this movie about a noble homeless man. Starring Ernie Hudson as the stoic lead with many friends and fellow vagabonds to keep track of, "Everything's Jake" bowed at the Santa Barbara (Calif.) International Film Festival and played like gangbusters with many in the audience.
Prospects are bleak for a big theatrical happening around the debut film of director Matthew Miele, who co-wrote and co-produced the low-budget indie with Christopher Fetchko. It's up-front and always apparent mission to bring cheer to general audiences will earn the approval of some critics and audiences, but it's likely to find its biggest success on cable.
Jake (Hudson) lives on the streets of New York by choice. In the opening, he calls the entire city his home, and with the help of the first of several montages to popular music, the viewer is meant to be swept along in the grubby romanticism of the concept. "Everyone stares, but nobody cares" is the discouraging reality Jake has to deal with, but with a support network and comfortably residing at the "bottom of it all," he's arguably the Happiest Miserable.
He's even more psyched when a down-and-out former professor, Cameron (Graeme Malcolm), reluctantly becomes his friend and teaches Jake a better way to play the bongos. In between trips to the library, where he fends off the grouchy, fey assistant (Stephen Furst) and chats up the pushover-for-a-bookworm librarian (Debbie Allen), Jake plays for money on the subway and sidewalks.
With a stash of cash kept safe by one of his many intimates who have jobs and homes -- including security guards, priests, taxi drivers -- Jake makes the rounds, reads the classics, plays chess, dines on garbage and scams a little money from dog walkers by picking up fresh poop and then demanding a fee to dispose of it.
To summarize the further adventures of Jake, once he's shown "Tarzan" Cameron -- who sleeps in a tree in the park -- the ropes and they've dreamed about having a "homeless parade," even getting a ridiculously restrictive permit, things get complicated. A major plot twist sends the film off on an unconvincing tangent that seriously disrupts the lead's idyllic life and overtaxes the filmmakers' abilities to make us see why this is so horrible.
By treading boldly into a milieu that resists glamorizing -- peopling it with Hollywood actors working out simplistic conflicts, hoping that excessively literal and chatty voice-overs will numb the viewer into accepting the watered-down version of life on the streets, and using famous tunes by Bob Dylan and others -- Miele and Fetchko run roughshod over the material and leave credibility behind in the first few moments.
Singer Lou Rawls has a couple of scenes as a concerned Hot Dog vender. Lou Myers (NBC's "A Different world") plays one of Jake's best but expendable friends. Willis Burks II as the lead's chess partner fares better. Robin Givens shows up near the end as a conscienceless publisher. Doug E. Doug, Joyce Randolph and Phyllis Diller all make brief and forgettable appearances.
EVERYTHING'S JAKE
Blackjack Entertainment
A Christopher Fetchko production in association
with Boz Prods., Mirador Pictures, mad.house inc.
Director:Matthew Miele
Screenwriters-producers:Matthew Miele, Christopher Fetchko
Executive producer:Bo Zenga
Director of photography:Anthony Jannelli
Production designer:John Henry
Editor:Noelle Webb
Costume designer:Martha Gretsch
Casting:Judy Keller
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake:Ernie Hudson
Cameron:Graeme Malcolm
Librarian:Debbie Allen
Abe:Lou Myers
Publisher:Robin Givens
Colonel:Willis Burks II
Assistant librarian:Stephen Furst
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Prospects are bleak for a big theatrical happening around the debut film of director Matthew Miele, who co-wrote and co-produced the low-budget indie with Christopher Fetchko. It's up-front and always apparent mission to bring cheer to general audiences will earn the approval of some critics and audiences, but it's likely to find its biggest success on cable.
Jake (Hudson) lives on the streets of New York by choice. In the opening, he calls the entire city his home, and with the help of the first of several montages to popular music, the viewer is meant to be swept along in the grubby romanticism of the concept. "Everyone stares, but nobody cares" is the discouraging reality Jake has to deal with, but with a support network and comfortably residing at the "bottom of it all," he's arguably the Happiest Miserable.
He's even more psyched when a down-and-out former professor, Cameron (Graeme Malcolm), reluctantly becomes his friend and teaches Jake a better way to play the bongos. In between trips to the library, where he fends off the grouchy, fey assistant (Stephen Furst) and chats up the pushover-for-a-bookworm librarian (Debbie Allen), Jake plays for money on the subway and sidewalks.
With a stash of cash kept safe by one of his many intimates who have jobs and homes -- including security guards, priests, taxi drivers -- Jake makes the rounds, reads the classics, plays chess, dines on garbage and scams a little money from dog walkers by picking up fresh poop and then demanding a fee to dispose of it.
To summarize the further adventures of Jake, once he's shown "Tarzan" Cameron -- who sleeps in a tree in the park -- the ropes and they've dreamed about having a "homeless parade," even getting a ridiculously restrictive permit, things get complicated. A major plot twist sends the film off on an unconvincing tangent that seriously disrupts the lead's idyllic life and overtaxes the filmmakers' abilities to make us see why this is so horrible.
By treading boldly into a milieu that resists glamorizing -- peopling it with Hollywood actors working out simplistic conflicts, hoping that excessively literal and chatty voice-overs will numb the viewer into accepting the watered-down version of life on the streets, and using famous tunes by Bob Dylan and others -- Miele and Fetchko run roughshod over the material and leave credibility behind in the first few moments.
Singer Lou Rawls has a couple of scenes as a concerned Hot Dog vender. Lou Myers (NBC's "A Different world") plays one of Jake's best but expendable friends. Willis Burks II as the lead's chess partner fares better. Robin Givens shows up near the end as a conscienceless publisher. Doug E. Doug, Joyce Randolph and Phyllis Diller all make brief and forgettable appearances.
EVERYTHING'S JAKE
Blackjack Entertainment
A Christopher Fetchko production in association
with Boz Prods., Mirador Pictures, mad.house inc.
Director:Matthew Miele
Screenwriters-producers:Matthew Miele, Christopher Fetchko
Executive producer:Bo Zenga
Director of photography:Anthony Jannelli
Production designer:John Henry
Editor:Noelle Webb
Costume designer:Martha Gretsch
Casting:Judy Keller
Color/stereo
Cast:
Jake:Ernie Hudson
Cameron:Graeme Malcolm
Librarian:Debbie Allen
Abe:Lou Myers
Publisher:Robin Givens
Colonel:Willis Burks II
Assistant librarian:Stephen Furst
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 3/20/2000
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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