Word: avnet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Writer Kathy McWorter and director Jon Avnet alternate these moral mud baths with warm soaks in sentimentality. Sometimes The War is so noble you want to spank it. But as it spins fascinatingly out of control, the film is nevertheless secured by the four splendid actors who play the Simmons family. Costner, a daring actor in his narrow range, lets his voice and heart break subtly on every line. And the two kids are fine -- full of sense, discretion and what we used to call gumption...
...tantalizing blend of glamour and horror, in Basic Instinct. But Oscar, a gentleman and a liberal, prefers women's roles that are role models. He might feel uneasy citing actresses whose characters tread the minefield that separates traditional femininity and modern feminism. "The general feeling," says director Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes), "is that if a woman is bright, aggressive and successful, she's got to be a bitch...
Directed by Jon Avnet Starring Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker & Jessica Tandy Universal Pictures
...FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is basically a lie. But it works. In part that's because all the actresses ground their archetypal characters in strongly realized reality, in part because the skittery script doesn't permit us to dwell on any of its improbabilities, and in part because director Jon Avnet energetically insists that the light of sheer good nature can always banish the essential blackness of his tale...