A forerunner to the quirky pyrokinesis comedies of the early 90's (PYRATES and WILDER NAPALM). While the gleeful weirdness of the script and the three lead performances (with Wallace Shawn thrown in for good measure) are charming enough, the movie can't balance its goofy tone and its dark psychological humor: coming in at under 80 minutes, it still feels stretched beyond durability and probably would have been better as a one-act play.
Which is a shame, especially considering how we…