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50 (R-8) BoxoFFiCE<br />
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••••• OUTSTANDING<br />
•••* VERY GOOD<br />
••• GOOD<br />
*• FAIR<br />
• POOR<br />
(no stars) BOMB<br />
REVIEWS<br />
February 1998<br />
DAY AND DATE: FEB. 6 (wide)<br />
ZERO EFFECT ••••<br />
Starring Bill Pullman, Ben<br />
Stiller Ryan O'Neal and Kim<br />
Dickens. Written and directed by<br />
Jake Kasdan. Produced by Lisa<br />
Henson and Janet Yang. A Columbia<br />
release. Rated Rfor language.<br />
Running time: 151 min.<br />
This sharp, original, unflaggingly hilarious<br />
debut from 22-year-old<br />
ZP:R0,MYHER0: lim Stilkr and liiil I'ullman in<br />
writer/directorjake Kasdan (son of Lawrence)<br />
is an incredible comic showcase<br />
for both Bill Pullman, as the highly eccentric<br />
and dysfunctional but brifliant defective<br />
Daryl Zero, and Ben Stiller, who<br />
plays Steve Arlo, Zero's beleaguered<br />
assistant. Because Zero is a paranoid<br />
recluse. Arlo must front all business dealings.<br />
Usually Zero, with his savant-like<br />
photographic memory and elaborate<br />
computer research system, can<br />
solve most cases without setting foot<br />
outside his vault of an apartment. So<br />
Arlo is understandably surprised<br />
when Zero agrees to fly to Oregon<br />
to investigate the case of a timber<br />
tycoon (Ryan O'Neal) who's being<br />
blackmailed.<br />
With deductive abilities and an encyclopedic<br />
knowledge<br />
of Sherlock<br />
Holmes caliber.<br />
Zero is quickly<br />
able to uncover<br />
an abundance of<br />
information and<br />
-Zero Effect.<br />
clues— in fact,<br />
more than his notso-ciean-handed<br />
clientwished. Pullman<br />
is wonderfully<br />
subtle in<br />
exposing each<br />
new twist and turn<br />
with relish and<br />
aplomb. There's a<br />
method to his<br />
madness, and<br />
watching it unfold<br />
is a delight. And<br />
Stiller, the archetype<br />
of exasperation,<br />
is fantastic as the intelligent, sarcastic,<br />
perennially put-upon righthand<br />
man who's simultaneously<br />
frustrated with and in awe of his mysterious<br />
mentor.<br />
The wryly intelligent, creative script<br />
serves the story, the characters and<br />
the actors well, never disappointing in<br />
ingenuity or opportunities tor uncanny<br />
comic timing. Christine James<br />
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