Heavy (1996)

The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work as a waitress at his and his mother's road-side restaurant. Heavy is a movie i expected to like but as it turned out i didn't i like Liv Tyler and even Pruitt Taylor Vince gives a good performance but unfortunately director James Mangold directs a movie that fails to deliver in the story it tries to tell most of the scenes are laughable with Victor loosing his dog and then re-appear again in his house, his mother dies and 2 weeks later he tells Callie the truth and his house is dirty as for the romance part his character comes out as more as a weird guy that has this rape face instead of a shy guy face. The performances are fine and the film actually turns pretty sad during the finale but it's just that all those stupid things that happened before can't be unseen for example he eats donuts, Sully from Commando has a weird cameo and he even gives a candy to Callie in order to seduce her or something but also those dreams that he has are even more weird than him. In the end Heavy is a movie with a powerful message although the execution ruins the whole movie if you want to see a good movie from this director go check out 3:10 to Yuma, The Wolverine and CopLand.

The fact that "Cosmopolitan" magazine wrote this movie was "terrific" should have warned me to stay away but, like a sap, I gave it a look. What a waste of a trip to the rental store back in the late '90s. "Horrible" would have been a better one-word description of this profane-laden soap opera about a bunch of losers at a diner. Well, if you are a loser and like to watch people moping around like the main character in this movie - a fat momma's boy - watching a story that really has little plot or substance, this is your cup of tea. It does one thing, though: it will depress you, and a lot of sickos out there like movies that depress them. Go figure. They can relate to this "realistic" story, sad to say.I would have more compassion, but the characters in here, almost all of them, are nothing but annoying. No wonder "Cosmo" loved it.

this is one of those films that slipped right through the cracks. i rarely ever see it mentioned by friends and critics alike. a truly beautiful little movie, a sort of slice of life that is at times sad and funny. one of my favourite parts about it is the soundtrack, which really gives the film its ambiance and its moods - the Thurston Moore score coupled with the stellar music from Evan dando (singing gram parsons!) the plimsouls, eleni mandell etc. is what turned me to the film (i heard the soundtrack first). and i'm glad i saw the film. star pruitt taylor vince definitely gives a great performance in a truly subtly powerful role. not-one to be overlooked.

Liv Tyler puts on her best 'little girl lost' act in this dull tale of attraction between herself and a dopey, self-pitying chef.The film attempts, and fails dismally, to construct a realistic story from this thin set-up, and amongst it's few highlights - the chef subtly trying to woo Liv Tyler with a Trebor's Extra Strong; and Tyler inexplicably getting aroused at the sight of a Boeing 747. Strange indeed.As well as this, the dopey chef tries in vain to join the CIA (that's the Culinary Institute of America for anybody thinking otherwise) - there is also a brief mention of Ice Art which isn't built upon - relevance?, Tyler, again inexplicably, actually taking a camera to the slimy diner in which she works in order to have snaps of her collection of inbred workmates, while Pruitt Vince sees a ghost of Tyler at regular intervals along the way as well - which is obviously where Peter Jackson got the idea for her character in LoTR. Anyway, that's about as good as it get's folks. And I didn't even mention the all-singing, all-guitar-playing, captain of the 'ball team' boyfriend of Tyler's.On a brighter note, James Mangold's direction is satisfactory - and it has to be, given that Pruitt Vince only has about 3 words to say throughout the entire film making any character development a touch tricky.And in a pretty absurd conclusion, (spoiler warning - run, run for your life) Pruitt Vince seemingly becomes romantically involved with the shelf-stacker from the corner shop after their brief flirtations over a set of flying glass bottles - or something like that!