Oddly juxtaposed with the French home-invasion suspenser "Them" at the Philadelphia Film Festival (what, is Philm Phestival too clichéd?), "Like Old Times" is the brief reunion of a married-but-separated alcoholic and his boyhood bully. Visually competent but unremarkable, it's well acted and written, with a cute gag at the end I didn't see coming. (I thought the bully would rob the drunk again, y'know, like old times.) What else to say about a seven-minute movie? The bully's t-shirt is good for a chuckle. The conversation itself seems natural and spontaneous, providing enough background to wonder whether the alkie's troubles originated in childhood.
A pleasant enough short but I'm guessing the only reason the PFF attached it to "Them" is due to that movie's brief running time. Or maybe since both deal in some way with child malcontents?
A pleasant enough short but I'm guessing the only reason the PFF attached it to "Them" is due to that movie's brief running time. Or maybe since both deal in some way with child malcontents?