the audience applauded

Admirable film.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Dark comedy, more puzzling and inscrutable than satisfyingly quirky, centers on the ever-changing circumstances happening to a modern day suburban couple who bring a gun into their house. Writer-director Stacy Cochran seemingly has a lot to say about "internal and external regeneration," but never manages to put all her thoughts together (the people in her screenplay talk haltingly, measuring their thoughts between their words). As a result, we're drawn to Diane Lane's lovely, quizzical concern as the housewife to doctor Stephen Collins but not much else. The scenario is intentionally vapid, with these neighborhood weirdos living in a vacuum, but Cochran isn't able to make her sideways vision funny or interesting. *1/2 from ****

This movie interested me since I first heard of it, which was a Siskel & Ebert review. Until Gerald Bender has to go to the hospital, the movie is really interesting. But after that point, not so much. It was still very watchable, indeed, but somehow the edge wasn't all there. The Stephen Collins character, I think, is what keeps the movie going. But when Diane Lane is now the lead, the movie is a bit slow. As for Skippy (played by James LeGros), this character is too subtle. The reasons for wanting his neighbors' gun are never clear. Is he secretly a murderer? Is he protecting somebody? As to whether this is something you're easily supposed to figure out, I have no idea. And as the movie gets closer to the end, it starts to make a lot less sense. And as for the ending (without spoiling too much), there is a gun involved, but what is the point of this scene? And I don't think the movie ends. It just stops.**1/2 out of ****

Sometimes there are films that are so weird that it's actually good to see. Sometimes that are films that are so normal that's actually boring. And other times that are weird films that are boring and pointless trash. This last example is the case of "My New Gun", a not funny story about a woman and her problems with a gun given by her husband. Debbie (Diane Lane) is awarded by her husband Gerald (Stephen Collins) with a .38 Special only because another couple friend of them did the same thing. But Debbie starts to think that her gun might explode during her sleep, and she barely can't shoot with it. In the middle of this dumb situation Skipp (James LeGros, the reason of why this movie was watchable) a neighbor friend of Debbie appears to help her to deal with the gun. The story gets so lousy to the point of Gerald accidentally shoot his own foot, stay several days in the hospital and when he's finally out he wants to divorce his wife. By the time when that happens he's an annoying and unbearable character who's only action is to scream to his wife. Not funny!Skipp actions starts to disturb Debbie, first because he "stolen" the gun, didn't said to her why he needed to used it, and then his friend (Philip Seymour Hoffman) also accidentally shot himself (we never know what happened to him after this). The mess gets bigger when Debbie plays the detective and starts to investigate Skippy's mysteries to find that his strange mother (Tess Harper) is a former country singer with problems with her husband (Bill Raymond). I guess I told the whole movie. Almost two hours of my life that I won't be able to explain why I wasted. Let's see...It had good actors and the story seems to be very different and cool to see it. That was my thought before I saw it. My thoughts after I see it: It has noting funny, the good cast was wasted, although I find James LeGros very mysterious and good here, but another director could give him a better lead character in another movie. Almost all the characters here are non-likable, with some tasteless punchlines and behavior. And what's the point of the movie? It didn't criticized anything about guns and their problems, it only shows someone who fears it but in the end she is forced to used it and not even recognizing that in the right time it can help you. Not even a statement or a satire over the excessive use of arms in Hollywood films. It wasn't like "It's the Rage" (very good movie about the indiscrimination of bear guns). Bottom of line: It didn't needed to be made. Waste of money (the producers's money and the people who's about to rent it). 3/10

You find yourself so mesmerized that at one point near the end when a cop almost but not quite touches a a pair of gloves and the mind goes the cop wanted to touch the gloves and almost did but didn't.Another moment is when the crackpot intruder just barely touches the the edge of the sleeve of the dress two or three times.Another is when Skippy touches Debbie's hair at the supermarket.I loved the world in which this movie took place. I not only care about the time during which the movie took place but also all the time leading up to it and all the time after it ended.The point now is to find out what Stacy Cochran has done since 1992.