Wednesday, July 12, 2000 The University Daily Kansan Section B·Page 9 Chuck & Buck wanders a dark memory lane By David Germain AP Entertainment Writer A reunion between boyhood friends — one an arrested adolescent, the other an up-and- comer in the record industry. Co-stars who include a former producer of *Dauson's* Creek and the brothers who brought you American Pie. The breezy title *Chuck & Buck*. Teen time at the movies again? Not quite. Chuck & Buck is a dark misfit of a movie that's sweet, scary, thought-provoking and off-putting all in one package. It's a bold, original achievement, the sort of movie that could give homoerotic stalkers a good name. Buck O'Brien — played by Mike White, who spent two years with Dawson's Creek and wrote Chuck & Buck — is a 27-year-old man-child. He still plays with toys, sucks lollipops, dresses and talks like an 11-year-old and lives with his ailing mother. When Mom dies, Buck tries to rekindle ties with his childhood best buddy, Chuck Sitter. Trouble is, Chuck has grown up to be Charlie Sitter — American Pie producer Chris Weitz — a hot young Los Angeles recording exec with a lovely flair. Charlie responds the way any man confronted by an unwanted apparition from his past would: He politely, nervously and, later, forcefully gives Buck the brushoff. Review "I don't think he wants to be my friend any more," Buck laments. "He thinks I'm not normal." But Buck also possesses a child's single-minded determination. A decade and a half later, Charlie remains the best friend — the only friend — in his lonesome life. What transpires is a stalk down memory lane. Buck cannot understand why Charlie no longer wants to climb trees with him — or participate in the other secret games they once shared, pastimes Charlie cannot bear to recall and Buck cannot live without. "Do you remember me?" Buck plaintively asks in the pivotal scene of this belated coming-of-age story. "Yeah, I remember you," is Charlie's — Chuck's—bittersweet confession. "I remember everything." This is a thinking person's Disney's The Kid Both films examine forgotten youth, but while The Kid settles for sugarcoated gags, Chuck & Buck is witty, intelligent, blunt and disturbing. Buck is wavy,俊俏,贤淑 and disturbing. The film contains scenes of surprising gentleness juxtaposed with moments of perversely comic menace. White's script elicits deep sympathy for Buck, though he's the sort of person most people would seek a court order against. Weitz and White are believable as friends who There's excellent comic turns by Lupe Ontiveros as a theater manager who becomes a surrogate mother for Buck, and Chris Weltz 'brother Paul -- director of American Pie -- as a Chuck look-a-like who offers Buck the chance to repeat his obsession or advance to a mature friendship. cook different paths, or rather a friend who went one way while the other stopped in stupefaction at the fork in the road. Chuck & Buck co-producer Beth Colt gives a perceptive, compassionate performance as Charlie's fiancee, a woman with both tenderness and twinges of fearful jealousy toward Buck and the boyish, no-girls-allowed misogyny he evokes. Directed by Miguel Arteta (Star Maps), the movie was shot on digital video, which provides an intimate, washed-out look suitably reminiscent of old home movies. Chuck & Buck played the Sundance Film Festival this year and had the enviable distinction of being acquired by Artisan Entertainment, the distributor that bought The Blair Witch Project at Sundance 1999 and turned it into a blockbuster. This new acquisition is not the stuff of block-busters. For moviegoers who don't mind a bit of squirming in their seats, though, Chuck & Buck offers insightful reflection into the darker sides of the childhoods everyone has left behind. When was the last time you "PULLED AN ALL - NIGHTER?" 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