Simple Men

A pair of brothers dodge the law while trying to locate their long-lost father in this third feature from independent New York filmmaker Hal Hartley. Robert John Burke stars as Bill McCabe, a failed computer thief who's just been doublecrossed by his girlfriend and partner. Vowing revenge on the ...more

One of Hal Hartley's weaker efforts, it still has some amusingly surreal bits that no one else could have produced. In his earlier, highly stylized deadpan comedies, the director had explored the effect of suburban vacuity on characters whose alienation was often droll, and occasionally hilarious. Here, Hartley has dropped his postmodern characters into an emptier, more "universal" locale with less fortunate results. While, the director clearly insists on the artifice of his narrative and ...more