The Boston Herald, February 19th, 2000
If you are looking for happiness, try drilling a hole in your head and letting your brains seep out.
That's the message of CBS' "Flowers for Algernon," an icy remake airing tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WBZ-TV (Ch. 4) that suggests intellect is the root of all misery.
Based on a 1959 short story by Daniel Keyes and updated for TV by John Pielmeier, "Flowers" stars Matthew Modine ("Full Metal Jacket") as a retarded man receiving a surgical boost to his intelligence with tragic results.
Modine's Charlie Gordon is a bakery assistant who is the butt of all his co-workers' torments and too slow to rec...
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