Jean Oppenheimer, Author at Cleveland Scene

Fish Lips

I’m the One That I Want may be a feast for Margaret Cho fans, but it won’t win her converts.

Cramming the 20th century into three hours is a bad idea, even if you’re Istvan Szabo.

Kadosh takes the fun out of fundamentalist religion

Center Stage delivers bloody feet, sexy dancing, and a big dose of inspiration.

I Dreamed of Africa, about one family’s tragic life in Kenya, falls prey to a feeble screenplay.

Incest shatters a calm surface in The War Zone.

A busy signal would have been preferable to Hanging Up.

Holy Smoke could make disbelievers of us all.

Liberty Heights celebrates life the way it was before we got so hip.

Girl, Interrupted can’t distinguish between crazy and normal, and its characters aren’t so sure either.

John Irving’s Homer Wells could be a poster child for compassion and human kindness.