This week’s Monday Philm is Joey Breaker (1993). Amos Poe, the director of PSH’s first m

This week’s Monday Philm is Joey Breaker (1993). Amos Poe, the director of PSH’s first movie, Triple Bogey on a Par Five Hole (1991), was a producer on Joey Breaker and helped cast Phil in this role!Not a great movie — throwing a lot of 90s hot social topics together but not going anywhere with them. A few surprisingly touching moments but overall it can’t decide which way to go. Mostly made me think 1. How much I would hate to work in the talent industry and 2. Those loud, clunky plastic desk phones were such great props for films, I miss them. Also, the last time I saw this I hadn’t watched The Sopranos yet, so this time around it was funny to see a very young Christopher Moltisanti Michael Imperioli as a budding screenwriter! Still so early in PSH’s career, this isn’t a huge part but it’s more significant than most of his roles up to this point. Lots to love about Wiley McCall but especially his hands — the hand acting here is, even by Phil Hoffman standards, off the charts. I’ve described many of these early performances as electric, just bursting with so much energy, but Wiley is truly hyperactive in the most physical sense — literally bouncing out of the club after the talent show, snapping, clapping, slamming phones around, kicking his legs, throwing back pills, chewing on the edge of his cup. The movie practically begins with his giggle, a burst of laughter that he just couldn’t contain inside his body if he tried.Also, seeing as Philip Seymour Hoffman was one of if not the best phone call actor of all time, props to this movie for basically being entirely about him making phone calls. I assume this is where he honed his skills because he spends 90% of his dozen scenes on the phone — you’re watching a young master at work! One scene, his voice is so soft and polite he sounds like a slightly younger Phil Parma on the phone with Pink Dot.In conclusion — Wiley is so so cute I want to pick him up and carry him in my pocket. Ngl his final scene is so sweet it makes me tear up a little bit each time, his face and the way he says “Serious?”, so earnest and gentle. I’ve been thinking about A Most Wanted Man nonstop for days, so it’s such a delight to switch gears and watch this adorable boy light up the screen. “Rock ‘n’ roll!” -- source link

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