QUEEN'S LOGIC |
| Produced By: | New Visions Pictures |
Starring: | Joe Mantegna, Ken Olin, Kevin Bacon, John Malkovich, and Cloe Webb. |
| Featuring: | Jamie Lee Curtis, Ed Marinaro and Tom Waits |
| Screened: | Screen Date: July 18, 1990 |
| Rating: | Acceptable | |
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You don't have to come
from Queens to get caught up in the lives of five best friends
who shared a two bedroom Queens apartment back in the
Seventies. They all get together one weekend to celebrate the
marriage of Ray (Ken Olin) and Patty (Cloe Webb). The only
problem is that even after Patty agrees to get married under
the Hellsgate Bridge which looms over the Queens neighborhood
where Ray and his friends grew up, Ray is still having second
thoughts. At the same time Al (Joe Mantenga) and his wife
Carla are celebrating their wedding aniversary. Al celebrates
by buying Carla a $4,000 ring but when he is over 3 hours late
for their dinner date, Carla celebrates by taking the kids and
walking out. Everyone else has their own problems, too. Eliot
(John Malkovich) is a repressed Queens homosexual who doesn't
want to live a promiscous lifestyle, Dennis (Kevin Bacon) has
the hots for Patty and Vinny can't find that one girl who will
sit up and howl at the moon for him. Things come to a T at
Ray's bachelor party which opens the lines of communication
needed to help work out their problems.
The animal action in
Queens Logic is minimal and was supervised by the American
Humane Association. There is one scene in Al's fish market
where two seabass are carried out of the freezer and two
workers throw fish parts at Eliot. This scene was actually
shot in a real fish market so none of the seabass were harmed
for the purpose of making the film. Two other scenes involve a
kitten. In one it emerges from Al's pants and in another he
licks some beer off Dennis' finger and is then placed in an
open trumpet case. If you look closely you can see that when
he is sitting in the trumpet case he is eating something. It
is simply kitty food and is the same thing he was fed from the
beer can.
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