The Tao of Steve
Donal Logue (a career bit part actor who has been in a ton of big movies - Jerry Maguire, The Patriot and Runaway Bride among them) came home from the Sundance Film Festival with an award for oustanding performance in a drama for this movie. The film doesn't really deliver any big surprises and sticks mostly to the well-travelled romantic comedy route, but Logue's casual performance as the amiable Dex makes the movie rather enjoyable. My grade: B-
Synopsis: In his early 30s, the beer-bellied Dex has things figured out. He's widely read in philosophy, he's studied Steve McQueen the prototypical cool American hero, and he's distilled Buddhism and Taoism into three laws that make him a hit with women: don't express desire, do something heroic in front of her, then retreat. A part-time job with young children, beer, guys, Frisbee golf, pool, poker, his dog Castro, and sex: what could be missing? Then, at his ten-year college reunion, Dex meets Syd, and the "Tao of Steve" may not be enough to get him what he wants. Plus, Syd remembers something important that Dex has forgotten. Can a cool smart guy, 50 pounds overweight, find his bliss? (via Imdb)
Director: Jenniphr Goodman
Writers: Duncan North, Jenniphr Goodman and Greer Goodman
Stars: Donal Logue (Blade), Greer Goodman, Kimo Wills (Empire Records), David Aaron Baker (Kissing Jessica Stein), Nina Jaroslaw, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines
Useless Trivia: No, he's not that fat - Donal Logue wore a strap-on belly during filming. You can see it in the scene where Dex knocks over a few baskets at Syd's workplace.
Synopsis: In his early 30s, the beer-bellied Dex has things figured out. He's widely read in philosophy, he's studied Steve McQueen the prototypical cool American hero, and he's distilled Buddhism and Taoism into three laws that make him a hit with women: don't express desire, do something heroic in front of her, then retreat. A part-time job with young children, beer, guys, Frisbee golf, pool, poker, his dog Castro, and sex: what could be missing? Then, at his ten-year college reunion, Dex meets Syd, and the "Tao of Steve" may not be enough to get him what he wants. Plus, Syd remembers something important that Dex has forgotten. Can a cool smart guy, 50 pounds overweight, find his bliss? (via Imdb)
Director: Jenniphr Goodman
Writers: Duncan North, Jenniphr Goodman and Greer Goodman
Stars: Donal Logue (Blade), Greer Goodman, Kimo Wills (Empire Records), David Aaron Baker (Kissing Jessica Stein), Nina Jaroslaw, Ayelet Kaznelson, John Hines
Useless Trivia: No, he's not that fat - Donal Logue wore a strap-on belly during filming. You can see it in the scene where Dex knocks over a few baskets at Syd's workplace.
1 Comments:
Donal looks exactly like a guy I work with
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