CANDYMAN: THE DAVID KLEIN STORY (Costa Botes, U.S./New Zealand). 76 minutes.
Saturday (May 1), 9:45 pm, ROM Tuesday (May 4), 1:30 pm, Cumberland 3. Rating: NNN
California candy entrepreneur David Klein invented the Jelly Belly in the late 1970s and spent the ensuing decades sulking over a business deal that took him out of the corporate picture. All he wants now is recognition, which director Costa Botes – a friend of Klein’s son Bert – is willing to provide by the truckload.
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But as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that for all the elder Klein’s bouncy enthusiasm, there’s an undercurrent of rage that no one (including Botes) is willing to confront. Klein’s life story could make a great movie, but this isn’t it.
