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...more gross-out gore. So directors make their young minor characters play the sin-and-repent game: you have sex, then you die horribly. Makeup maestros like Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead) dream up (or nightmare up) grotesque faces and prostheses. Screeching violins italicize the killer's abrupt entrance as he raises his knife behind the fair maiden...
...thinks of its central figure, Edward (Colin Firth), an impractical inventor trying to make a go of moss farming. He is at once pious and lustful (his determined eye is cast at his brother-in-law's pretty French fiance), a good father to his numerous brood, yet sometimes abrupt and heedless of them. He's a stormy character, all right, but an unfocused one, and this well-cast adaptation of a memoir by a British TV executive is disjointed, only queasily humorous and too casual about its dark undercurrents...
When Galeota wrote for The Crimson, he was known at 14 Plympton St. for his abrupt demeanor. Fallows remembers him as "a 1940s-style reporter" with his sleeves rolled up and ready for any story...
When Galeota wrote for The Crimson, he was known at 14 Plympton St. for his abrupt demeanor. Fallows remembers him as "a 1940s-style reporter" with his sleeves rolled up and ready for any story...
...something like that. The punch line: well, there isn't one, really. Our social scientist is eventually recognized by a patron as Toby Young, a 35-year-old writer for the men's magazine Gear. Young denies being on assignment ("Not me. My name is Jennifer"), makes an abrupt exit and goes home to recount his experience in a piece titled "I Was a Lesbian for a Night...