Let me shoot you straight...this was NOT a good movie. I have not seen this since 1991, but I can tell you from memory, despite the fact of having some great, well known actors and actresses, Queens Logic is one you can safely bypass. And I'm saying this as a warning. The funniest scene in the entire movie occurs before the opening credits even end. From there on out, it is just a random montage of nonsense. ( A much later scene has Kevin Bacon looking as if he has a major bulge in his pants, and he pulls out a kitten out of the zipper. Ohhh...kay!) If you have ever seen The Big Chill, this movie just follows the same script, except instead of a funeral, we have a wedding reuniting long childhood friends back together. I found it slow, boring, and lacked humor and direction. Sandwiched between Son In Law and Can't Buy Me Love, Steve Rash offers this magnificent plate of bullcrap straight off the farm. If you think you can enjoy that, have a look, but there's a reason why a good chunk of the population has never heard of this title.

This is one of my favorite movies! I can't even remember how many times I have watched it. I've had it so long that it's in VHS and I've kept my old VHS player just for these movies. Great Cast, Great Location, Great Soundtrack. It just goes to show that friendships can last forever. Some of the scenes in this movie will stick with you for life. Though some of the cast are still acting, there are some that I wish were still at it, like Linda Florentino (she was great in Jade), John Malkovich (great in Being John Malkovich), Ken Olin, Tom Waits (he was great in Short Cuts), and Chloe Webb. If you haven't seen it, you need to.

It is a shame that I could not give this movie a much higher rating. The acting was great. Kevin Bacon played Dennis, a struggling actor in L.A. who returned home for his friend Ray's (Ken Olin)wedding. Bacon does a terrific job playing someone who is superficially cheerful, hiding his insecurities and loneliness. The other actors and actresses were also very good. Joe Mantegna plays Al, an extroverted person, who isn't afraid to be himself. John Malkhovich also does his usual good job, playing Eliot, a man trapped in the machoistic World of Queens, yet struggling with his homosexuality. Perhaps the best scene is when Eliot tells a "pesky" homosexual to "bug off", because he just doesn't like him. This movie could have been a lot more, but it tried to do too much, didn't explain to the viewer what was going on, and became predictable by the ending. First of all, we never understand why exactly Al's wife, played by Linda Fiorentino, leaves him so suddenly and violently. All we know is that she is mad at him. We similarly understand that Ray is having second thoughts about getting married. We understand that Eliot is kind of an angry character. We never really find out why. Eliot befriends a homosexual pianist. We never really find out much about the pianist, except that he is rather mild mannered. There are also things that just don't help the plot much. Jamie Lee Curtis plays a character who is never really developed well, and in the end we have no idea why she behaved the way she did (and how this changed Al's life). Another scene that doesn't work is the swimming pool scene. Al's wife steals Al and all four or five of his buddies clothing, yet somehow he has spare clothing for all of them in his car. This movie could have been a good movie. Instead, it was confusing and not very well written.

Released in 1991, this movie captures a quality New York possessed in the late eighties. The characters seem genuinely capable of making the wisecracks the script has them make. They're middle-class urbanites who are capable of desperate violence. Yet, they are not particularly violent. They are haunted by the hardscrabble lives of their parents. The story involves a group of people in their early-to-mid-thirties. They've known each other since childhood. The plot is this: Will the scheduled marriage between two members of this group actually take place? While he is not the lead actor here, John Malkovich plays a character who embodies the dilemma each one of the characters faces. Each one wishes he were somewhere else and yet each one would give his right arm for anybody else in this circle of friends. Unlike his friends, he is gay, but what he has in common with them is the sense that the upper-class will have nothing to do with him. He is dating an upwardly-mobile man and his confrontation with him is still refreshing thirteen years after this movie was filmed. Many movies and TV series have dealt with this milieu, but very few have pulled it off. It is not entirely believable--there's an over-the-top story-line with Jamie Lee Curtis as a smooth-talker who enchants the edgy Joe Mantegna--but it's assertive. QUEENS LOGIC is well worth viewing.