Action

Comedy

Crime

Excess Baggage

Columbia Pictures

United States of America

English

Alicia Silverstone

Benicio del Toro

Christopher Walken

Jack Thompson

Harry Connick Jr.

Nicholas Turturro

Michael Bowen

Robert Wisden

Leland Orser

Sally Kirkland

Hiro Kanagawa

Brendan Beiser

Demetri Goritsas

Jorge Vargas

Danielle Saklofsky

Stacy Grant

Callum Keith Rennie

Carrie Cain-Sparks

Nicole Parker

Bill Croft

C. Ernst Harth

Adrien Dorval

April Telek

Marco Brambilla

Max D. Adams

Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle

Anita Camarata

Lee Anne Muldoon

Richard Cowan

William H. Orr

Ezra Dweck

Cam North

Bryan Korenberg

Derick McLeod

Francesca Dodd

Patrick Dodd

Betty Thomas Quee

Sonny Surowiec

Les Erskine

Penny Gibbs

David Rosychuk

Eric Batut

Rachel Davies

Casey Grant

Doug Lavender

Michelle Baines

Victoria Down

Gil Forrester

Michelle Almaz Tadege

Ray Neapolitan

Bridget McGuire

Rob McEwan

Peter G. Capadouca

Ann Goobie

Christine Derek

John Nutt

Gloria Kaiser

Marnie Moore

Melissa R. Stubbs

Debra Wiebe

Dillard Brinson

Jay Boekelheide

Lia Vollack

Stephen Hart

Ronnie Specter

Richard Quinn

Don Orlando

John Motyer

Mo Henry

Rob Vreugde

Kevin Nolting

Carrie Wilson

Ian C. Ballard

Will Fearn

Kim B. Christensen

Leslie Bloome

Mark Berger

David Jacox

Colleen Mitchell

Christine Wilson

John Clothier

Stan Salfas

Richard Hudolin

Stephen E. Rivkin

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Elizabeth Wilcox

Mike Fenton

Missy Stewart

Allison Cowitt

John Lurie

Beatrix Aruna Pasztor

Carolyn Kessler

Bill Borden

Poor little (crazy) rich girl with Benicio Del Toro and Christopher Walken 

RELEASED IN 1997 and directed by Marco Brambilla, "Excess Baggage" stars Alicia Silverstone as an eccentric 18 year-old in the Seattle area who fakes her own kidnapping to get her unloving father’s attention. She develops a relationship with an odd car thief (Benicio Del Toro) while her father enlists the even stranger “Uncle Ray” (Christopher Walken) to find her.

Alicia was 19 during shooting and a rising young superstar after a string of popular roles: A pubescent tease in “The Crush” (1993), a popular Beverly Hills adolescent in “Clueless” (1995), a wannabe Nancy Drew in “True Crime” (1995) and a hot superheroine in “Batman & Robin” (1997). “Excess Baggage” was Silverstone’s first movie after a pricey production deal with Columbia and it was strongly rumored that she clashed with director Brambilla. Originally slated for release in the Fall of 1996, it was pushed back to late the next Summer.

The movie starts confident & strong and could be likened to contemporaneous quirky flicks like “Buffalo ‘66” (1998). It regrettably fizzles out in the second half but, nevertheless, Alicia was in her physical prime with alluring curves. Unfortunately, she’s stuck with one basic outfit the entire film (form-fitting black pants). Much more could’ve and should’ve been done with her. On the other side of the gender spectrum, Del Toro is notable as the mumbling eccentric while Walken is intriguing and entertaining as a former CIA assassin who basically raised Emily (Silverstone) and is concerned about his employer’s aloofness.

THE FILM RUNS 101 minutes and was shot in British Columbia (Vancouver, Victoria & Britannia Beach) and Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. WRITERS: Max D. Adams plus Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.

GRADE: C+

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