Here's a film scripted by the husband and wife team of Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson (who also wrote Best Friends). It takes the characters who converge in a bar - a favourite framework of Hollywood films since The Time of Your Life - and follows their fortunes. In Max's Bar, however, the denizens are life's mental and physical misfits. Still, the characters are colourful, appealing and amusing and their hearts, like that of the film, are certainly in the right place. It marks one of the rare screen appearances of real-life double amputee Harold Russell, who won an Oscar in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.


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