Shady past has a nasty habit of catching with people, even to those who believe that they put it behind them. This is something that happens to protagonist of Thursday, 1998 crime comedy written and directed by Skip Woods. For everyone in his well-to-do Houston neighbourhood, architect Casey Wells (played by Thomas Jane) looks like someone who has anything in life – successful and lucrative career, beautiful yuppie wife Christine (played by Paula Marshall), nice home and it isn’t surprising that he even registered to vote Republican. The only missing from his idyll are children, and Wellses have tried to solve that problem by applying for adoption, convinced that it should be formality for such model citizens. However, on the very same Thursday when Casey is to greet adoption agency psychologist Dr. Javis (played by Kevin Jeter) for an interview, his home is visited by Nick (played by Aaron Eckhart), an old friend with whom he was involved in some illegal business in Los Angeles. Unpleasantness caused by Nick’s reminding him of problematic past is nothing with unpleasantness caused by Nick’s various associates that are visiting Casey’s house, convinced that Nick has stashed stolen money and drugs there. All this leads to series of bizarre and extremely violent events.
Thursday was made with low budget and represented feature debut for Skip Woods, who would later work mostly as screenwriter. Even at the beginning it becomes clear that originality doesn’t seem to be Woods’ forte and that he took perhaps a little too much inspiration from Tarantino’s work. Experienced viewers know what to expect next – plenty of black humour, foul language and graphic violence. Woods’ characters, on the other hand, look colourful and are played by diverse and talented cast with Eckhart and Glenn Plummer (playing hitman named Ice) making the best impression. Thomas Jane, who was relatively unknown before starring in Deep Blue Sea, has good chemistry with former Czech supermodel Paulina Porizkova who here plays delightfully perverse character. Mickey Rourke is also effective in the role of quiet but sinister-looking villain. Thursday is hardly original film, but in an hour and half it offers more than enough for audience demanding their proper dose of Tarantinoesque fun.
RATING: 5/10 (++)
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