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Learning Italian-Iowan accent for Bridges of Madison County flick...
...aging theater veteran whose career and savings ride on the success of the tour. Dotty, however, is all too aptly named. Her earnest but inept struggles with the comings and goings of the script's schools of sardine props become a running joke. While clinging to her borrowed British accent as the apple-cheeked housekeeper, she mightily struggles to keep them in line...
...voice over continues as she dresses, paints her nails, applies her lipstick. Finally she looks at the camera and says with her accent, "Last year I was a man." As sad as it is, it is hard to repress the laughter. She appears throughout the film, telling her story which, because it is so sad, juxtaposes oddly with some of the other portraits and grows tiresome...
Though his New Zealand accent wobbles a bit at times, Harvey Keitel is, as usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role meatier than that of the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park." He lives up to the possibilities of the role...
This film sets Hanks in the ranks of many other solid leading men. Here he has the talented and very experienced Sally Field playing his mother. Hanks stands on his own next to this actress, carrying the film with his facial expressions and strong southern accent...