Tune in Tomorrow... (1990)

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Tune in Tomorrow... (AKA Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter) is definitely a weird one. Keanu Reeves works in radio in 1940s New Orleans when he falls in love with his aunt (not a blood relation) and dreams of being a writer. He's mentored by a crazy radio play writer played by Peter Falk (really the best thing about this), who soon starts to steal from their taboo relationship for material, and then blurs the line between life and art by effectively WRITING the relationship. Throw in the truly demented idea that Falk's lurid radionovelas are essentially delivery devices for racial slurs about Albanians, and you'd be right in thinking this thing's pretty unpredictable. Alas, its two competing stories feel incomplete, cannibalizing one another for time. The nephew-aunt relationship lacks proper motivation (especially on Aunt Julia's part) and Falk's character, a sort of agent of chaos, takes up too much time (what with his radio plays being rendered as scenes and all) for what is ultimately an enigmatic pay-off. It's certainly original, but perhaps the novel it is drawn for couldn't actually be successfully adapted in under two hours. 4 years 9 months ago