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Big Bad Love is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown. [1] [2] The story recounts an episode in the life of an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and struggling writer named Leon Barlow, who is played by Arliss Howard , and his ...
Oct 11, 2001 · Big Bad Love: Directed by Arliss Howard. With Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette. Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
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Mar 15, 2002 · It all comes down to whether you can tolerate Leon Barlow. I can't. "Big Bad Love" can, and is filled with characters who love and accept him, even though he is a full-time, gold-plated pain in the can. Leon is a college graduate (no doubt of creative writing classes) who has adopted a Good Old Drunk persona that wavers between the tiresome and the obnoxious. The movie has patience with his ...
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Feb 22, 2002 · Big Bad Love. A boozy depiction of a struggling writer, Big Bad Love is too messy and self-indulgent. An investigation into what it takes to make a thing. A chair, a soufflé, a pistol, a bridge ...
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Big Bad Love is a 2001 film directed by Arliss Howard, who co-wrote the script with his brother, James Howard, based on a collection of short stories of the same name by Larry Brown. The story recounts an episode in the life of an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and struggling writer named Leon Barlow, who is played by Arliss Howard, and his wife, played by Howard's wife Debra Winger. The soundtrack ...
Big Bad Love. Based on the acclaimed short-story collection by celebrated Mississippi writer Larry Brown, “Big Bad Love” is the tale of struggling Mississippi writer Leon Barlow (Arliss Howard) working to make fiction from his past, his dreams, and the dim sound of the future bearing down on him. At the same time, he tries to balance his ...
Feb 22, 2002 · Legend has it that Mississippi is home to more writers per capita than any other state in the union. Arliss Howard's "Big Bad Love," based on stories by the Mississippi writer Larry ...
