In 1995, Andy Garcia visited Cannes as the star of a Miramax film Things to do in Denver when you’re dyingaccompanied by his entire family. This seems to have led to New York Daily Newswho wrote: “Among some Hollywood types, there’s a saying: Wives don’t suit Cannes. Don’t tell that to Andy Garcia. The smoldering star not only brought his wife…he brought his three young daughters to the premiere of his new film.”
Of course, the R-rated Denver, directed by Gary Fleder, in which Garcia plays a former hitman called back into the game for another job alongside a hit crew that includes Treat Williams and Christopher Walken, was no family film. THR Critic Michael Rechtshafen noted, like many reviewers, that the “darkly derivative comedy” was an imitation of Quentin Tarantino’s film. Pulp Fiction. It was a comparison that Garcia rejected: “Hugewash. There is no resemblance. That was a black comedy where you laugh when someone is stabbed in the heart with a hypodermic needle. Our poem is a tragic poem. When people are killed, you care about them.”
Garcia takes another stab at crime drama this year with his latest film, diamondwhich will be excluded from the competition. He directed the film and starred alongside Vicki Cripps, Brendan Fraser, Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman.
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