Niagara Niagara

(Artisan Entertainment)

Director Bob Gosse and screenwriter Matthew Weiss manage to romanticize both violent crime and mental illness in this tale of a stringy-haired sensitive misfit (Henry Thomas) and a Tourette's-syndrome sufferer (Robin Tunney) who subsists on pills and whiskey. Tunney's performance got her an award at last year's Venice Film Festival, but by the time she has her climactic fit in the toy aisle at a department store, you'll feel relieved that you no longer have to spend time with her.