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- “Novocaine” is a screwball film noir with a lot of medium laughs and a few great big ones, written and directed by David Atkins.
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Nov 16, 2001 · “Novocaine” is a screwball film noir with a lot of medium laughs and a few great big ones, written and directed by David Atkins. All I know about him for sure is that he wrote the screenplay for “Arizona Dream” (1993), the only American film of the Yugoslavian mad genius Emir Kusturica.
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Novocaine is a 2001 American black comedy thriller film written and directed by David Atkins and starring Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern, Lynne Thigpen and Elias Koteas. It was shot in the Chicago, Illinois area.
This was a good movie, but there were several plot holes you could drive a truck through. I found myself saying "No one would really do that" over and over again. It seemed as though the director wanted to do a straight suspense film, and Steve Martin wanted to do a screwball comedy, and in the end, it's neither one.
1st June 2003. Steve Martin darkens his usual screwball comic persona for Novocaine, playing a suburban dentist implicated in drugs and murder charges in a noir-tinged comedy thriller which...
Novocaine. 45. Metascore. 27 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 75. New York Post Lou Lumenick. Martin's most adventurous film in many years, may be next best thing to a quick shot of nitrous oxide. 75. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. A screwball film noir with a lot of medium laughs and a few great big ones, 70. Los Angeles Times John Anderson.
It's not a typical Steve Martin movie where you laugh all the time, Novocaine has some serious and thrilling moments that we don't see in most other Steve Martin movies. The movie is a different Steve Martin movie, but there are still some good moments in Novocaine.
This dark and stylish tale of lies, cheating, extortion, incest, betrayal, and murder centers on dentist Frank Sangster (Steve Martin). Frank has a successful dental practice that is operated with efficient precision by his fiancée, Jean Noble (Laura Dern), yet he is vaguely unsatisfied.
