Another Day In Paradise

Co-producer James (freakin' cheese) Woods carves his way through this Chinese Bookie Production as Uncle Mel, a fast talking self confessed 'Junkie' and real good thief Fagin character who teaches a pair of curtain haired meth addict gen-X teens how to survive the drug addled gutter world they all inhabit.

Bobby (Vincent Kartheiser) stabs a fat rent a cop in the chest with a screwdriver and gets 'schooled in the life' alongside his smackhead girlfriend and Woods onscreen main squeeze Sidney (Melanie Griffiths). They all act like desperate Eddie Bunker crooks and a grimey independant crime thriller mood is achieved as it's low budget, often violent and full of hard nosed 'let me tell ya' dialogues ripped straight from the Eddie Little novel it's based on.

Obviously a labour of love (with an o.k soundtrack) it's a safe bet to guess the crew was small and close and everybody method acts their shirts off. Bobby 'the strung out Cobain boy' uses Woods and Griffiths as surrogate parents (they in turn cant have kids) doing anything illegal they ask of him and handles the underbelly society thang by cursing lots and crying only a few times. He gets punched, drunk, slapped, impregnates his tank girl girlfriend and helps scam, steal and drive across america looking for the big score.

Melanie injects smack into her crack (a bikini mainline?), kills a guy Millers Crossing style and Woods swears, robs and rants, does a Videodrome (83) joke, talks about pussy, guns and drugs and finally drops the hand on Lou Diamond Phillips in a gay bar. Lou tells Bobby he 'Could kick his ass as good as he could fuck it'. That said, the ending is bollox.