YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollections  A pleasant ride on a familiar
road   'Bonneville' offers nothing new, but Jessica Lange, Kathy
Bates and Joan Allen are fun to watch.  May 30, 2008|Kevin
Thomas | Special to The Times  Although "Bonneville" is not as
sturdy a vehicle for its stars -- Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates and
Joan Allen -- as the 1966 red convertible that gives this gentle
but slight film its title, it is nevertheless strong enough to
allow these splendid actresses to provide a pleasant ride for
viewers, mature audiences especially.  Directed by Christopher
N. Rowley, who co-wrote with Daniel D. Davis, there is a
spacious quality to "Bonneville," a road movie that takes three
friends on a journey from Pocatello, Idaho, to Santa Barbara.
Lange, ever the mistress of the radiant secret smile, has just
been widowed by her adored, adventurous, much older husband, who
never got around to including Lange's Arvilla, his second wife
of 20 years, in his will. His daughter (Christine Baranski) by
his late first w