Crossing Guard

Pros: Script, Nicholson, Morse

Cons: Nothing worth mentioning

Review: Rarely, it seems, has a film achieved anything close to the subtle depth presented in Sean Penn's devastating analysis of shattered lives, which he humbly and aptly titled "The Crossing Guard." Penn wrote and directed this obvious labor of...

Pros: Jack Nicholson, Anjelica Huston, Robin Penn Wright; Vilmos Zsigmond

Cons: script (was there one?), editing

The Bottom Line: In the John Cassaveates and Michelangelo Antonioni tradition: too wallowing for many with more actorly displays than coherence. 3.5 stars

Review: The films Sean Penn has directed (T he Indian Runner and then two starring Jack Nicholson, "The Crossing Guard" and Th e Pledge) are all as bleak as the darkest existential films of the ...

Pros: Jack Nicholson has moments, David Morse has moments

Cons: Script is weak

The Bottom Line: Sean Penn should stick to directing and acting as the writing here stinks. Average movie would have been better with a decent script.

Review: The Crossing Guard (1995) The Crossing Guard is a film that tries to make a victim out of the viewer as much as the protagonist, Freddie (Jack Nicholson), but is only so successful.  You have to care about the ...