The Mighty (1998)
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
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Director Iain Softley (who created such Jamesian beauty in ''The Wings of the Dove'') and screenwriter Charles Leavitt (who did what he could with ''The Mighty'') work hard to blur the answers, sometimes literally blurring focus.
It's also somewhat fun how director Iain Softley ("The Wings of the Dove," "Hackers") and screenwriter Charles Leavitt ("The Mighty") manipulate the viewer into thinking and then wishing that the subject at hand - Prot - is really from another world, and then seemingly pull the rug out from under their feet.
The story however, adapted by screenwriter Charles Leavitt ("The Mighty") from the novel by Gene Brewer, pulls a few fast ones in the fantastical fluff vein, in order to have its cake and eat it too.
Iain Softley (The Wings of the Dove) directs from a screenplay by Charles Leavitt (The Mighty).
The screenplay by Charles Leavitt (The Mighty), however, consistently introduces little subplots (with Prot's fellow patients, for instance, or with a group of scientists astounded by Prot's inexplicable knowledge of the vagaries of space-time) that seem promising and end up going absolutely nowhere.
Director Peter Chelsom of "The Mighty" paces the movie well and has a good sense of comic and romantic timing.
But at least Chelsom is getting better at script evaluation; his two most recent films, The Mighty and Town & Country , were deeply flawed before they left the page.
As written by screenwriter Marc Klein (marking his writing debut) and helmed by director Peter Chelsom ("Town & Country," "The Mighty"), the film revolves around two characters who may have met for only a few brief hours in the past, but were so smitten/starstruck/taken with each other that they haven't been able to shake the feeling that the other was their chosen Mr./Ms.
And it likely seemed that director Peter Chelsom (who made Funnybones and The Mighty before he faltered -- appallingly -- with Town and Country) was going to be able to pull something clever out of the corniness, much like Stephen Frears did with Cusack's other recent romantic comedy, High Fidelity (which was mostly saved, it must be said, by the fabulous Jack Black).
Director Chelsom, who created the whimsical "Hear My Song," vastly underrated "Funny Bones" and sweetly fantastical "The Mighty," can't obscure the rigging which holds up a plot that should be lighter than air.
Director Peter Chisholm ( "The Mighty," "Town & Country") has the perfect touch for the frustratingly funny near-misses that drive the rest of this ambrosial romance.