Carny

Carny is bursting with more information about American carnivals that it can contain, surrounding a plot too thin to support it.

The characters -- despite the broad mean streaks the script gives them -- emerge as soft and sentimental, and the plot is mired in a tired love triangle (Foster-Gary Busey-Robbie Robertson) that doesn't go anywhere.

Carny is an odd, ugly, but satisfying mixture of lots of things...It’s a double-edged metaphor that turns to explain itself: the sex is as much as the hustle as the hustle is of the sex.

The missed and fumbled opportunities add up to an ultimately unsatisfying experience.