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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0758445905939
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Rick is a rare feature that makes intelligent and exciting use of audience bewilderment. From its opening scenes, this quirky update of Verdi's Rigoletto thrusts viewers into a bizarre corporate culture in which mean-spiritedness, adolescent high jinks, and general dimwittedness are the norm, but there is no explanation as to why. Yet it's impossible to turn away from the madness and decadence of scenes in which Bill Pullman's middle-aged executive, Rick, engages in monstrous behavior toward subordinates or exchanges in fraternal obscenities with his young, clueless boss, Duke (Aaron Stanford), who is routinely enjoying anonymous, online sex with Rick's daughter, Eve (Agnes Bruckner). Screenwriter Daniel Handler, better known to the world as author Lemony Snicket, and director Curtiss Clayton slowly introduce enough background to unlock the central tragedy in this tale, and lead everyone to a shared, startling destiny. Cinematographer Lisa Rinzler (Pollock) sets everything against a fantastic cityscape and voyeuristic hell. --Tom Keogh
Description:
Rick is the sort of guy you probably once really liked: a devoted husband and a loving father, he lives in a lavish Park Avenue apartment paid for by a high powered corporate job. He has a sharp sense of humor and enjoys a cold, well-prepared martini but the world's gone wrong for Rick. His wife is dead. His teenage daughter Eve is distant as she approaches womanhood. His job gets more and more degrading with each passing day. His young boss Duke is an aggressive punk who forces Rick literally to his knees and spends his time talking dirty in Internet chat rooms, while Rick has to do the dirty work. And it seems you can't even have a martini in this town without getting a curse from an enemy or sinister proposal from an old friend. No wonder his sense of humor is getting a little nasty.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Wasn't a "Dark Comedy" - just DARK. Rick got what he deserved for being rude, mean, unscrupulous and careless. Unfortunately, his dumb daughter had to pay for it; with her life. The perverted "BIGBOSS" got what he wanted and got away Scott-free. The interviewee/fired waitress/storage space attendant's curse on Rick, worked. That's it. Lousy movie.
Rating:  -
If the guys from IN THE COMPANY OF MEN had been even more cartoonishly evil and crass, they would be the characters in this movie. And the fact is, those very traits make some bits in this satire absolutely hilarious.
Both of the male leads in this film, Rick and Big Boss (who is half Rick's age), seem to compete for the designation of Bad Guy. Equally sleazy, both characters pull stunts that will literally make you gasp. The opening exchange between Bill Pullman and Sandra Oh may be ... Read More
Rating:  -
This film is pointless, for many reasons. Not the least of which is that it's a bad bastardization of Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'Amuse (and Verdi's Rigoletto).
It gets off to an intriguing start, though. Meet Rick (Bill Pullman) - the office jerk. He's a fairly unlikable guy, but that's because his wife was killed. Rick is also pushed around by his less-talented, half-his-age boss. So an old schoolmate says for $10,000 he'll kill any one person of his choosing. What ... Read More
Rating: -
The only bad part is that it is too long. Still with its flaws, it's still an interesting story about karma.
Rating:  -
Talk about your series of unfortunate events! Scriptwriter Daniel Handler (the man behind Lemony Snicket) delivers up a thoroughly adult tale of power, greed, lust, innocence lost, and seemingly foreordained tragedy in Rick. The movie may be patterned on Verdi's opera Rigoletto, yet the presentation of this story is uniquely memorable; it's a brilliant, intelligent, quirky dark comedy/morality tale that really should be a cult classic. Bill Pullman has finally made a believer out of me; I don't ... Read More
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