Best Men (1997)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Tamra Davis

Writers (WGA):

Art Edler Brown (written by) &
Tracy Fraim (written by)

Release Date:

17 October 1997 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

A comedy thriller about four men, a wedding and everybody's funeral.

Plot:

The film opens with 4 tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been...

Plot Keywords:

Bank Robbery | Tragedy | Chase | Homosexual | Friendship Between Men

Cast

Dean Cain	...	Buzz
Andy Dick	...	Teddy
Sean Patrick Flanery	...	Billy
Mitchell Whitfield	...	Sol
Luke Wilson	...	Jesse
Fred Ward	...	Sheriff Phillips
Raymond J. Barry	...	Hoover
Drew Barrymore	...	Hope
Brad Dourif	...	The Vet
Tracy Fraim	...	Cuervo
Art Edler Brown	...	Carter
Jeff Phillips	...	The Rookie
Biff Yeager	...	Mayor Boar (also as Biff Yaeger)
Kathryn Joosten	...	Edie
Dee Maaske	...	Dorothy

Also Known As:

Independence (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Austria:18 | France:U | Netherlands:16 (video premiere) | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Front Street, Norwalk, California, USA

Company:

Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA)

Trivia:

The number of the bus they get on at the end is 2525, the same as in Speed (1994/I).

Quotes:

Teddy: [while he is talking on the phone] Oh, I understand.

Movie Connections:

References Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Soundtrack:

Burn To Shine

Don't be fooled by the cast

What a train wreck.

Watching the opening credits the audience is granted some manner of false hope; Wilson, Cain, Flanery, Dick, Ward, and Barrymore...not to mention direction from the talented Tamra Davis. Add in music by Mark Mothersbaugh and you might think you were in for a really entertaining hour and a half. You'd be wrong.

Instead this is 90 minutes of your life you'll be wishing you had back. This movie fails miserably in spite of its passable cast. The script is miserable tripe, with each member of this derelict wedding party recounting their own unique story, one more cliché than the next.

The supporting cast features a bevy of film stereotypes; the distant father, the crazy veteran, the villainous FBI agent...even a black security guard named after a ball player! How embarrassing.

Beyond the bad script, sub par performances, weak story, and average direction, Best Men never really decides where it wants to go. Comedy, dark comedy, action-adventure, drama; as it flounders it never achieves any of these goals.

Don't be fooled by the stars, this is grade A loser not worthy of its cast or its director.