Mumford (1999)
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!
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Judging by director Lawrence Kasdan ("Mumford") and cowriter William Goldman's ("Misery") adaptation, "Dreamcatcher" is kitchen-sink King with a broken garbage disposal.
Co-writer (with frequent King-adapter William Goldman) and director Lawrence Kasdan ("The Big Chill," "Mumford" ) goes into conspicuous shorthand mode when it comes to our history with these invaders -- and that's the first indication that the film may be in trouble.
On the evidence here, we can say what we already knew: Lawrence Kasdan is a wonderful director of personal dramas (" Grand Canyon ," " The Accidental Tourist ," " Mumford ").
His script work on The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi got him friends in high places, and Kasdan spent the next two decades as a writer and director making movies that range from the pleasant (The Accidental Tourist, Grand Canyon, Mumford) to the dreadful (French Kiss, and The Bodyguard, a stinker written by Kasdan that made pots of money).
As channeled through writer/director Lawrence Kasdan (“The Big Chill,” “Grand Canyon,” and the underrated and criminally underseen “Mumford“), “Dreamcatcher” embodies all the best things about King adaptations and crams them into one single motion picture.
Director-writer Lawrence Kasdan (“Mumford”), production designer Jon Hutman, and set designer Rose Marie McSherry come up with a stunning set which looks like a library.