For this challenging film, Martin and Sam call on the Kiefer Sutherland of Song by Song, Philippa Spanos, to tackle this 3hr epic and possibly save her daughter and the president along the way. We grapple with both the shortcomings and the charm of this behemoth, and end up finding lots to like... although possibly not much from Waits himself.
Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include:
At Play In The Fields Of The Lord Trailer, via YouTube (dir. Hector Babenco, 1991)