"Inside Moves" is the kind of low key, slice of life indie that the movie world is full of these days, but that was a rarity back in 1980.
John Savage and David Morse give two terrific performances in this film about a bunch of people, many with disabilities, who form a kind of family from their shared feeling of being outcasts. It's a meandering film without any one central conflict. It's more like there are a bunch of small conflicts and the film bounces back and forth between characters as it resolves them. It's a bit raggedy, with abrupt editing that makes for a disorienting sense of time passing, but the raggedness somehow feels right for the film's setting (mostly a bar) and mood.
Diana Scarwid received an Oscar nomination as a waitress and love interest for Savage. She's watchable enough but I'm not sure I see anything very award-worthy in her performance, mostly because her character doesn't have a whole lot to do.
Grade: B+
John Savage and David Morse give two terrific performances in this film about a bunch of people, many with disabilities, who form a kind of family from their shared feeling of being outcasts. It's a meandering film without any one central conflict. It's more like there are a bunch of small conflicts and the film bounces back and forth between characters as it resolves them. It's a bit raggedy, with abrupt editing that makes for a disorienting sense of time passing, but the raggedness somehow feels right for the film's setting (mostly a bar) and mood.
Diana Scarwid received an Oscar nomination as a waitress and love interest for Savage. She's watchable enough but I'm not sure I see anything very award-worthy in her performance, mostly because her character doesn't have a whole lot to do.
Grade: B+