A movie we don't need to see?

Stephen Holden on Griffin Dunne's long on-the-shelf Fierce People, which has a good cast and way too much plot. (NY Times)

When F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that the rich “are different from you and me,” he might have been thinking of someone like Ogden C. Osborne (Donald Sutherland), the reclusive, moody billionaire who casts a long shadow in Griffin Dunne’s film “Fierce People.” With his blue-eyed, wide-as-the-sky stare, white beard and patriarchal rumble, Mr. Sutherland is the embodiment of a proud old aristocrat, slowly going to ruin, who knows too much about the dark side of human nature for his own comfort. He knows, for instance, that many if not most fortunes begin with crimes.