'Roxanne' is another movie I watched for the podcast. Steve Martin stars in and penned this update of Edmond Rostand's 1897 work 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. Martin plays the soulful but comically large nosed fire chief of a Washington state resort community, Daryl Hannah a visiting astronomer and titular love interest, Rick Rossovich the handsome claude through whom Martin finds himself vicariously romancing his muse.
This is a solid comedy and works as such, but excels through its subtleties and sense of mood, little extra bits of complexity to the lead characters, and being about something more then cheap laughs from a prosthetic nose. This surprised me, would be worth revisiting. ***1/2
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