DVD Mini Review - Slipstream

Slipstream is a most unusual film. It is written and directed by Anthony Hopkins and he stars in it as well. Hopkins plays screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer who is in the middle of writing a screenplay. But somehow the characters in the screenplay and people in Bonhoeffer's life are becoming one and the same. Sometimes you don't know what is real and what is not. The film is a bit of a puzzle.

Slipstream is also a satire on the film industry and Hollywood. At times it is quite funny. For instance, John Turturro plays a mad, power hungry producer named Harvey Bricman (Harvey Weinstein anyone?). There are a number of well known actors in the film including Turturro, Christian Slater, Michael Clarke Duncan, S. Epatha Merkerson, Camryn Manheim, Jeffrey Tambor, Fionnula Flanagan and Hopkins' wife Stella
Arroyave.

The film is very trippy (Lynchian) and great to watch. I really liked it. But it is not for everyone. Slipstream did not get good reviews and it only played in the theaters for a week or two. But it is a film that I thoroughly enjoyed.