Where the honey is

Ulee's Gold

(1997)

Hey, who remembers that little Jessica Biel played Ulee's teenage granddaughter, her first feature role? Another thing I didn't remember is how clunkily rote this starts and finishes. In between, it's a solid moral thriller, but the draw, of course, is Peter Fonda channeling Pop as the '90s film character who has turned up in the most New York Times crossword puzzles. This is a performance so quietly right that we remember the film as having been better than it was.