Bodies, Rest & Motion

Name: Bodies, Rest & Motion
Genre: Drama
Released: 1993-04-09
Duration: 1 h 35 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth

1993
R
1h 35m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

Theatrical Trailer from Columbia Pictures

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Drama

A fired TV salesman (Roth) abandons his girlfriend (Fonda) for the open highway. Encouraged by her best friend (Cates), the girlfriend has an affair with an idealistic local house painter (S...Read allA fired TV salesman (Roth) abandons his girlfriend (Fonda) for the open highway. Encouraged by her best friend (Cates), the girlfriend has an affair with an idealistic local house painter (Stoltz) just as the boyfriend returns.A fired TV salesman (Roth) abandons his girlfriend (Fonda) for the open highway. Encouraged by her best friend (Cates), the girlfriend has an affair with an idealistic local house painter (Stoltz) just as the boyfriend returns.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

2.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination

Trivia
In the end credits there is a special thanks to Harvey Keitel. He was not involved in the movie as such, but he made a very important phone call to Tim Roth. Roth had been offered a big and well paid part in a big budget film immediately before this low budget independent film was to begin shooting. Harvey Keitel made a phone call to Roth, giving him the following advice "Don't take the money. Take the film you really want to make". So Roth stayed with this project.

Quotes
Carol:You get all the stuff that you want to sell, and I'll make some yard sale signs.
Beth:No one's gonna buy my shit. It's all junk.
Carol:That's what people buy at yard sales.

Connections
Featured inSiskel & Ebert & the Movies: This Boy's Life/The Sandlot/Indecent Proposal/Bodies, Rest & Motion/The Abyss(1993)

Soundtracks
Hot Burrito #1
Performed byThe Flying Burrito Brothers
Written byChris Ethridge/Gram Parsons
Courtesy of A&M Records, Inc.

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Review

Featured review

Meaningless, self-absorbed, pretentious and, worst of all, deadly dull

Nick is a TV salesman who is discontented with his life with Beth and plans for them to move towns. Carol is Nick's friend and former lover who lives next door and Sid is a painter who has a crush on Beth. This film follows the movement of these generation X'ers as they affect each other's lives.

Done at the same time as gen X movies were in vogue and on the back of Tarantino fever Roth and Stoltz both benefiting from his success. This claims to have a story but it hides it beneath layer and layer of pretension, making it hard to get involved in. The story does have some clever parallels between the character's lives and Newton's rule that a body remains stationary until affected by another. However the characters are unrealistic and selfish making it hard to care about them.

The film is actually really dull it's only 90 minutes long but it felt like a 3 hour epic. The story is really meaningless despite thinking that shots of cacti and using African music will somehow make this deeply profound!

Roth, Fonda, Stoltz and Cates have al been good at least once. Here they're all hampered by bad characters and pretentious dialogue.

Overall, meaningless, self-absorbed, pretentious and, worst of all, deadly dull. What a major disappointment.