In MASK Peter Bogdanovich dares to work against every expectation of the moviegoing world in Anna Hamilton Phelan's adaptation of the true story of a San Fernando Valley biker-mon (Cher) and her highschooler, Rocky, born with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a massively disfiguring genetic defect sometimes called "the look of the lion." The story, of course, is of the sweet and bright soul behind this "mask." Under Bogdanovich's sensitive direction, Cher, young newcomer Eric Stolttz, and Laura Dern as the girl he meets at a camp for the blind, carry this story from the predictable into the deeply moving. Life among the bikers may be portrayed as a series of cook-outs and good deeds, but there are truths here about families and about expectationns which are universal, and performances which are simply extraordinary.
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