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Encyclopedia > Desert Blue

Desert Blue is a 1998 American comedy/drama film directed by Morgan J. Freeman and starring Brendan Sexton, Kate Hudson, Ethan Suplee, Christina Ricci, Casey Affleck, Peter Saarsgard, Sara Gilbert, and John Heard. Kate Hudson in the film Almost Famous Kate Garry Hudson (born April 19, 1979) is an American actress. ... Ethan Suplee as Randy Hickey on My Name is Earl Ethan Suplee (born May 25, 1976), is an American actor currently featured in the NBC sitcom My Name Is Earl as Earl Hickeys dimwitted but supportive brother, Randy Hickey. ... Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress known for her roles in The Addams Family films, Sleepy Hollow, Monster and independent films including Buffalo 66, Prozac Nation, and The Opposite of Sex. ... Casey Affleck (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor of Scottish and Irish descent. ... Peter Sarsgaard Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971 on Scott Air Force Base, Illinois) is an actor. ... Sara Gilbert in Twins Sara Gilbert (born Sara Rebecca Abeles on January 29, 1975 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress best known for her longtime role as Darlene Conner in the U.S. sitcom Roseanne. ... John Heard John Heard (born March 7, 1945 in Washington, DC, USA) is an American actor. ...


The story centers on a rising Hollywood starlet (Hudson) who becomes "marooned" in a small desert town while on a roadtrip with her father. There, she gets to know the town's rather eccentric residents, including one (Ricci) whose hobby is pipe bombs and another (Sexton) who is trying to carry out his father's dream of building a waterpark in the desert. A water park is an amusement park that features waterplay areas, such as water slides, splash pads, spraygrounds (water playgrounds), lazy rivers, or other recreational bathing environments. ...


The soundtrack features songs by The Candyskins, Rilo Kiley, Janis Ian, and others. The Candyskins are a rock band formed in 1989 in Oxford, England. ... Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie rock band fronted by former child actors Jenny Lewis (Troop Beverly Hills, The Wizard) and Blake Sennett (Salute Your Shorts, Boy Meets World). ... Image:JanisIan. ...


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Desert Blue (689 words)
Desert Blue focuses on a handful of Baxter’s denizens over the course of a long weekend that begins with the arrival of a pop-culture professor (John Heard, in a wonderfully shaggy performance) and his daughter, Skye (Kate Hudson).
Blue spends his days trying to resuscitate the dream that recently killed his father, an ocean park called "Baxter Beach." But the dream is dead, too, and its skeleton is plain to see in the form of a partially constructed waterslide and a dozen or so canoes that lie bleaching on the desert’s dry sands.
There’s no reason for Blue’s mom to be a UFO nut (the fact that she is one is even sadder because Jenney is too interesting a performer to be saddled with such a gimmick), and the FBI agent who’s a closet drunk feels shoehorned in from some bad TV cop-show.
Review | Blue (1049 words)
Blue is thus reminded of her painful breakup with a member of that group, Misha, a feminist activist who walked out on her two years earlier, leaving only a breezy note on the fridge.
Blue fled San Diego after that for the remote town of Borrego Springs, where she now lives in the office of an abandoned motel and stores her belongings in adjoining units.
Blue's high anxiety about men, combined with a frequent inconsistency between what she says and what she does, render her one of the most complex and genuine female characters to appear in contemporary detective fiction.
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