Based on an idea from one of the BeeGees. Timothy "007" Dalton, Anthony "ER" Edwards, and Janet "Giraffe" McTeer, et al, naturally. Hawks (1988) is a comedy about two guys with terminal illness who decide to leave hospital and make the most of whatever time is left. Edwards plays a former football player who can no longer walk, and Dalton an annoyingly ebullient former solicitor who urges him not to give in but instead to embrace his last days wholeheartedly. In a separate story, which will join up, McTeer plays a clumsy, strapping young woman, pregnant from a brief relationship, who decides to try and find the man who did it. She and her sister run into the AWOL inmates and a group road trip is in the offing.
The movie is endearingly unexpected, and perhaps a little uneven in its content and tone. It takes ages for Edwards to even say anything. Dalton's illness hardly manifests itself at all, which is a bit odd. I did really buy either the first scene in the car or the final scene in the church. I don't think Hawks could be made today. For one thing everyone is into overblown superhero nonsense nowadays, and for another everyone is into what Joe Rogan called 'recreational outrage', and Hawks has plenty to denounce for the churlishly minded. It is in a unique way life-affirming and has characters who genuinely want to empathise with one another, so as such I find it rewarding. Maybe you will too?
It never made it to DVD but you can find it on Youtube.
The movie is endearingly unexpected, and perhaps a little uneven in its content and tone. It takes ages for Edwards to even say anything. Dalton's illness hardly manifests itself at all, which is a bit odd. I did really buy either the first scene in the car or the final scene in the church. I don't think Hawks could be made today. For one thing everyone is into overblown superhero nonsense nowadays, and for another everyone is into what Joe Rogan called 'recreational outrage', and Hawks has plenty to denounce for the churlishly minded. It is in a unique way life-affirming and has characters who genuinely want to empathise with one another, so as such I find it rewarding. Maybe you will too?
It never made it to DVD but you can find it on Youtube.