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Critic's Corner

Esther Iverem - Style section, "The script, direction and acting fail."

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 O'Neal's 'Kazaam'

Scene from this movie In the modern fairy tale "Kazaam," Shaquille O'Neal, plays a genie who has just been awakened.

In the film, 12-year-old Max Conner lives with his single mother Alice in a struggling community in downtown Los Angeles. Their apartment is replete with the faux-seedy decor Hollywood uses to evoke the inner city. The effect is to say: This place is really depressing, and these people are real losers. Max is white but he is tormented by a predominantly Chicano group of boys who chase and beat him. -- Esther Iverem
Rated PG

Director: Paul Michael Glaser
Cast: Shaquille O'Neal; Francis Capra;
Ally Walker; John Costelloe
Running Time: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Filmography: Ally Walker