The music in Alan Rudolph's films is generally pretty good.
That isn't the case here, and it's impossible to tune out Richard Baskin's moaning vocals--reminiscent of the guy in Crash Test Dummies--because they permeate the entire thing, not least because Keith Carradine plays the songwriter who provides his character's songs (though Baskin was the film's composer).
As he proved in Robert Altman's Nashville the previous year, the Oscar-winning Carradine is the better singer, and I wish Rudolph had kept his…
