Personally, I couldn't care less about this movie. It's pretty dull and boring. Maybe I should give this movie an extra point because of the acting being more or less okay, but I refuse to do so. The story was totally uninteresting and it really goes nowhere. So, we have the Beans, a poor trailer-trash family with Reuben Bean (Rutger Hauer) being the father. There's young aunt Roberta Bean (Kelly Lynch) living in a separate house nearby. And there's Earlene Pomerleau (Martha Plimpton), living across the street with her overly religious parents (what's new?). They all fool around with each other. Reuben gets thrown in jail. They should have done that much sooner because he clearly is insane (wanting to shoot the sheriff for no reason, and all...). Then there's more fooling around with a bit of incestuous insinuations going on there. Someone dies (mainly because he's so stupid to walk out waving and shooting a shotgun with police-officers standing around). And then Rutger Hauer gets released from jail, visits Roberta and just when you expect Hauer to act crazy again, this movie just ends.
THE BEANS OF Egypt, MAINE (aka FORBIDDEN CHOICES) isn't worth seeing. Not even for Hauer-fans (However, he does get drunk and falls out of his truck. And the scene where he wants to shoot the cop is pretty hilarious). But then again, if I wanted to see a movie about dysfunctional Americans, I'll go see any Larry Clark-movie, 'cause at least he delivers the goods.
THE BEANS OF Egypt, MAINE (aka FORBIDDEN CHOICES) isn't worth seeing. Not even for Hauer-fans (However, he does get drunk and falls out of his truck. And the scene where he wants to shoot the cop is pretty hilarious). But then again, if I wanted to see a movie about dysfunctional Americans, I'll go see any Larry Clark-movie, 'cause at least he delivers the goods.