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Dorian (Luke Wilson) and Angus (Jake Busey) try to "scare the devil" out their stepfather by chasing him with a helicopter -- but in an unplanned accident, it kills him. To make matters worse, the old man has been having an affair with Sally (Drew Barrymore), a young employee at the local Burger-Matic who's now pregnant and searching for a substitute father for her child. Things really get complicated when she thinks Dorian could be the one.

We'd seen this several years ago, but I'm a complete space cadet and forgot and added it to the list. I suspect this was before I started blogging my movie reviews.

This wasn't a bad movie....Kinda bizzare and unique in it's story line. The director Dean Parisot has directed Northern Exposure and Monk, but TV series which are good and poor respectively. He also directed Galaxy Quest, which wasn't really terriffic, but not the worst Sci-Fi I'd ever seen. Once again, middle of the road on this one, 3 stars.

Feeling Minnesota

NetFlix: Steven Baigelman makes his directing debut with this offbeat lovers-on-the-run yarn set in the rural Midwest. Drifter Jjaks Clayton (Keanu Reeves) returns home for the wedding of his brother Sam (Vincent D'Onofrio) to a woman(Cameron Diaz), who's only marrying him to pay off her debt to a gangster (Delroy Lindo). When Jjaks and the bride-to-be escape the nuptials together, Sam plans his revenge. Tuesday Weld appears as the boys' mother.

I'm going high on this quirkly little flick. The director has done nothine else and frankly this may be his one hit wonder, but a cute and quirky movie.

Garden State

Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, who also directed) returns to his hometown in New Jersey after a decade away to attend his mother's funeral. Having just weaned himself off antidepressants, the young man begins to see his life in a new light, which leads him to confront his psychologist father (Ian Holm) and forge a connection with a new friend (Natalie Portman). This whimsical comedy premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Great little movie. 4 stars.

About a Boy

Description: Will Lightman (Hugh Grant) is a rich, hip, irresponsible Londoner who, in search of available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single-parent meetings -- confident in both parties' inability to make a commitment. But when Will meets Marcus, the troubled 12-year-old son of Fiona (Toni Collette), a quirky and unexpected friendship develops as both Will and Marcus help each other grow up.

My Promulgation: I don't remember a damned thing about this bastard. Not even sure why the hell I'm giving it a f*cking star....and I HATE Huge Grant movies.