Intersection (1994)

	Directed by: Mark Rydell	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama/Romance NORWEGIAN TITLE Vendepunktet RUNNING TIME 94 minutes
	Produced by: Bud Yorkin Mark Rydell
	Written by: David Rayfiel Marshall Brickman

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Vincent Eastman	Richard Gere	½
Sally Eastman	Sharon Stone
Olivia Marshak	Lolita Davidovich
Neal	Martin Landau	½
Richard Quarry	David Selby	-
Meaghan Eastman	Jenny Morrison	½

Review

In this meandering drama set in the Vancouver area, director Mark Rydell (On Golden Pond) aims for deep and thought-provoking, but ends up with a rather sluggish melodrama which only occasionally manages to lift itself up from its structural chains and address the real-life issues on hand with any kind of sincerity. The writing has a daytime soap vibe, even if the actors are among the Hollywood A-list and give it their best shot. Richard Gere looks marvellous and is well cast. His Vincent Eastman could have been fine in another movie. But Sharon Stone is uncomfortable to watch in her atypical part, and Lolita Davidovich, who finds the right note for her role, is edited to look like a potential bad guy. The filmmakers obviously were clutching at straws to give the movie an edge which it severely lacks, except in contrived plot devices. James Newton Howard provided the uninspiring score. It was Rydell's penultimate film.