Drool

Nice Travel Down a Side Road
This is a quirky, left of center indy comedy. It centers on Anora, an Oklahoma housewife who lives in a dream world fantasizing over a perfect husband, perfect marriage and perfect family that is at odds with her reality. Her husband's a jerk, her marriage is a mockery and her kids are screwed up beyond all possible belief.

She gets a new neighbor, Imogene, who sells a Mary Kay type line of cosmetics. Imogene is upbeat, friendly and black which doesn't bode well with Anora's husband or kids. But she's the only person in Anora's life that pays her any attention and shows her any kindness. The two end up falling for each other and during a sexual interlude Anora's husband (drunk) comes in and goes bananas. He pulls a gun but things go wrong and he's the the one who ends up getting shot by Anora. The two women dump his body in the trunk of Imogene's car. Anora grabs her two kids and they all head to Savannah, where Imogene's boss lives, to dispose of the body. It's a shortish...

Cute and entertaining
Made on a budget, but was entertaining. I especially liked the thirteen year old boy who was a 'queen' in the making. Not a long movie, but was a pleasant way to spend a little over an hour.

a nice surprise
'Drool' was a good little film of its' type, an 'independent' and shot on a shoestring budget. Laura Harring has a certain sweetness as mousy, downtrodden and abused housewife Anora Fleece, Jill Marie Jones turns the rather formulaic sassy black woman into something a bit special, and Oded Fehr plays both the misogynistic racist wife beater, Cheb Fleece who is sexually abused by his male boss (but keeps it a dirty little secret) and the 'fantasy man' Anora dreams of. Credit where it's due,Fehr injects a subtle note of sympathy into the monstrous husband, and gives a nice little comedic flip to the hunky Harlequin hero. The actress who played 'Kathy K' did less well, largely because hers is another sassy black mama role, so all she could do was parody it. 'Drool' is a film that works on many levels, even though it is touted as a gay comedy, it's never preachy, the writing was good, and the idea of using illustrations to convey teen Tabitha's secret feelings was a neat twist. If the...

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