| Leonard Maltin/Plot synopsis: |
Oddball movie set in 1951 New Orleans. Reeves plays an impressionable young man who falls in love with his sexy aunt (Hershey), while falling under the spell of Falk, a wildly eccentric writer for a radio soap opera who draws on real life in ways his young protégé cannot conceive of. Funny, funky, original; not always on target, but there are inspired moments. Falk is a howl. Familiar faces appear in amusing cameos. Music by Wynton Marsalis, who also appears on camera. Based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter.
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