![]() ![]() And that, at least, gave the story a personal urgency. But the fast-track Manhattan club scene he chronicled held a kind of lurid fascination, and he did manage to capture something of the desperation and frustrated ambition behind the drug and disco nightlife. As a stylist, McInerney isn't any great shakes, and his novel lacked the psychological dimension that might have made it something more than a snappy read. ![]() Because on one level the book is a kind of "Valley of the Dolls" for the culturally upscale, a sputtering, strolling bore is perhaps the last thing you might have expected the movie to be. The movie begins after Jamie's wife has unceremoniously dumped him, and he courts oblivion by plunging headlong into the extremes of decadent pleasure-taking. ![]() Instead, Amanda becomes the hot new face on the modeling circuit, and Jamie a researcher in the Department of Factual Verification at a Manhattan magazine that bears a close resemblance to The New Yorker. Fox), a young man with literary pretensions who has moved with Amanda (Phoebe Cates), his model-beautiful wife, from Kansas City to New York to become a writer. The film is the record of roughly a week in the life of Jamie Conway (Michael J. The movie is like a Porsche outfitted with a lawn mower engine there's not even enough juice to get the machine out of the driveway. "Bright Lights, Big City," the James Bridges movie of the Jay McInerney best seller, runs at such a low idle that you expect it to collapse in a heap right before your eyes. ![]()
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