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Wildfire (1988)

Drama | 94 minutes
2,21 21 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Zalman King

Stars: Steven Bauer, Linda Fiorentino and Will Patton

IMDb score: 4,5 (227)

Releasedate: 2 September 1988

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Wildfire plot

Kay and Frank have been a perfect couple since they were children. They met in an orphanage and married at a young age. Unfortunately, their marriage has only a small chance of success in the harsh society. Frank is as stupid as a sixteen-year-old boy to rob a bank with a water pistol. Instead of a bag of money, he gets a police bullet in his body and eight years in prison. Kay meets a wealthy man and falls in love again. Eight years later they are happily together with two children. When Frank gets out of prison, he visits his old girlfriend again.

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Picked it up last weekend at the thrift store and mainly because of the presence of Linda Fiorentino, because it was quite obvious that this would not mean much. In that sense, the film reminded me of Two Moon Junction, which I caught earlier this year only because of the presence of Sherilyn Fenn, and that was already such a deception/faint film. And that turned out not to be much different in the case of Wild Fire.

And despite the cast, Fiorentino is a beautiful woman here at the age of thirty, Bauer can act well when he wants to, and Patton is never bad either, the film never for a moment escapes from the mediocre RTL atmosphere with an excess of melodrama and a cringeworthy soundtrack. And actually it is nothing to sneeze at and it is nonsense that Bauer and Fiorentino have to pass for 16-year-olds in that opening phase where the duo falls apart. The film continues with a dull screenplay and even worse dialogue, after which I actually dismissed the film as a complete waste of time well before half way through.

And that is a shame because in itself the idea is not wrong with the feeling that the relationship between the two has broken down, that the feeling remains dormant and people start beating around the bush like two cats just to come to the conclusion that life has moved on and people have changed. It is an attempt to continue where they left off that only produces a dialogue with some depth towards the end. Of course, it is already far too late to make anything of this hopeless product. Anyway, it's nice to be able to watch Fiorentino in that sense, otherwise this film is quite bad and a complete waste of time.

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