Hi,
Here's a review of a suggested double feature of yuppie movies.
This one's more in a capsule review style (the type you'd see in a rep house listing), but in upcoming reviews I'll aim to be more analytical, etc.
You can find more of these suggested theme double features at my website, http://www.heyrobertsilva.com
Here it is:
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YUPPIES IN CRISIS: The Boost (1988) & The New Age (1994)
They are also films specific to their times, The Boost taking place during the late 80s boom in LA and, in The New Age, early-90s recession.
The Boost (dir. Harold Becker) concerns Lenny Brown (James Woods), a New York salesman desperate to make it. Transplanted to California to sell real estate tax shelters, he begins to live the good life he feels he was always entitled to and deprived of. When the market turns sour, he turns to cocaine to get the needed "boost" to turn things around (with predictable results). Aided by Wood's wonderful frenzied performance, the film gradually reveals itself to be not a drug film, persay, but a film about a pathological desire to succeed. Sean Young co-stars.
In The New Age (dir. Michael Tolkin), LA yuppie Peter Witner (Peter Weller) quits a high-paying advertising job to search for meaning in his life. The trouble is there's not much to either him or his wife (Judy Davis) than the places they go or the things they own. To fill the gap, they turn to new age philosophy and toy with alternative lifestyles. As their bank balances fall, their marriage and fragile social world slowly self-destruct.
- Robert
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