Mask
| Year: | 1985 |
| Studio: | Universal |
| Director: | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Cast: | Cher, Eric Stoltz, Sam Elliott, Estelle Getty, Laura Dern |
A very TV Movie of the week issues film, where a young man is born with a genetic defect that severely deforms his face. His mother (Cher), a biker's moll, loves him dearly and can only try to shield him from the world she knows will reject him.
The film is at pains to reminds us that Rocky (Stoltz) is a normal kid with normal dreams - he has a pinboard on his bedroom wall of all the places he wants to visit when he and a friend visit Europe (and that you know will all be torn out in frustrated rage at one point in the movie).
A strange part of the institution of self-congratulations of Hollywood. In a land where everyone's rich and beautiful, they're only too ready to bestow acclaim upon someone who makes a point of being poor or ugly. The same thing was evident years later in the column inches written about Charlize Theron's transformation into serial killer Aileen Wuornos for Monster.
The film is at pains to reminds us that Rocky (Stoltz) is a normal kid with normal dreams - he has a pinboard on his bedroom wall of all the places he wants to visit when he and a friend visit Europe (and that you know will all be torn out in frustrated rage at one point in the movie).
A strange part of the institution of self-congratulations of Hollywood. In a land where everyone's rich and beautiful, they're only too ready to bestow acclaim upon someone who makes a point of being poor or ugly. The same thing was evident years later in the column inches written about Charlize Theron's transformation into serial killer Aileen Wuornos for Monster.