Directed by Paul Schrader
Atypical for Elmore Leonard, his novel “Touch” contains a number of elements familiar to writer-director Paul Schrader’s body of work. Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) is a stigmatic who abandons miracle work in Latin America for the more low-key calling of counseling addicts in Los Angeles. When his secret gets out, however, he’s pursued by a conman evangelist (Christopher Walken) and an Opus Dei-type (Tom Arnold), each of whom hopes to use Juvenal for his own ends.
United Artists. Producer: Lila Cazes, Fida Attieh. Screenwriter: Paul Schrader. Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard. Cinematographer: Ed Lachman. Editor: Cara Silverman. Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Tom Arnold, Paul Mazursky.
35mm, color, 96 min.
