Vince Vaughn in A Cool, Dry Place

love, sex and starting over...

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Release Date: Spring 1999
MPAA: Rated R
Running Time: ?

Cast:
Vince Vaughn ... Russ Durrell
Joey Lauren Adams ... Beth Ward
Monica Potter ... Kate Durrell
Devon Sawa ... Noah Ward
Bobby Moat ... Calvin Durrell

Directed by: John N. Smith
Written by: Matthew McDuffie, based on the novel Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe Producers: Katie Jacobs, Gail Mutrux

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The film is based on the novel, Dance Real Slow, by Michael Grant Jaffe. REM bassist Mike Mills is composing the score and the band will write and record a new song for the soundtrack. This is the first time REM has attempted to write an original song for a film.

A Cool, Dry Place went straight to video for most the most part. It was released in LA and NY on January 29th but from the lack-luster reviews, it will be a video rental. It's not as bad as I thought it would be (sorry, Vince) but with straight-to-video releases, there is usually a reason. The story isn't that original (90s version of Kramer vs. Kramer) but it's watchable on Christmas Eve after a bottle of wine.

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Description

Russ Durrell [Vaughn] is a young lawyer whose wife, Kate [Potter], leaves him and their 4-year-old son. When Russ is fired from his big-city legal job, he escapes to a lesser position in rural Kansas and finds love with with Beth Ward [former girlfriend, Adams], a free-spirited local woman. But, Potter comes back and tries to reclaim custody of their son.

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Miscellaneous News

June 13, 1997
Devon Sawa Finds A Cool, Dry Place
Devon Sawa, the hottest Canadian teen idol since Michael J. Fox's voice first cracked on Family Ties, has landed a role opposite Vince Vaughn (Swingers) in the upcoming A Cool, Dry Place, Variety reports. The Fox movie is about a part-time lawyer (Vaughn) whose wife (Monica Potter) walks out on him and their four-year-old son. Father and son head to Kansas, where Vaughn finds a new love, played by Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy). Sawa will play Adams' younger brother. The Internet pinup is best known for his roles in Casper and Now and Then, and he'll soon be seen opposite Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Wild America.
source: Mr. Showbiz News

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MTVInteractive.com: A Cool, Dry Place For Mills and R.E.M.

July 9 [16:00 EDT] -- Fox 2000 Pictures has gleefully announced they've signed R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills to score their new movie "A Cool, Dry Place," currently in production, and that R.E.M. will be writing and recording a new song for the film's soundtrack. Fox says that R.E.M. have traditionally refused all offers for motion-picture scoring work and original-song contributions.

The movie, now being filmed in Toronto, stars Vince Vaughn ("Swingers," "The Lost World: Jurassic Park 2"), Joey Lauren Adams ("Chasing Amy," "Michael") and Monica Potter ("Con Air"). The director is John N. Smith, whose credits include the critically acclaimed drama, "The Boys of St. Vincent,'' and the box-office hit "Dangerous Minds," with Michelle Pfeiffer. "A Cool, Dry Place" is based on the novel "Dance Real Slow" by Michael Grant Jaffe.

Mills said in a statement: "The book is great, the actors talented and the director brilliant. I can't wait to see the movie."

A spokesperson for Fox says a label deal for the soundtrack is currently being negotiated, as is involvement from other recording artists.

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