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...movie takes no ethical position on the business and pleasure of dope, but it gets plenty upset about the perfidy of women. Except for his first doomed love, Barbara (Franka Potente from Run Lola Run), every female in George's life is a harpy with a vengeance. His meanspirited mom (played by a miscast Rachel Griffiths, who is five years younger than Depp) turns him in to the police. His shrill, selfish wife Mirtha (Penelope Cruz, who for once manages to be unlikable) tells the cops he's holding. Even his daughter Kristina (Emma Roberts), the only person he cares...
...federal prison in Otisville, NY. (Aside: why is a 33-year-old woman, even one as talented as Rachel Griffiths, playing mother to a man five years older than her?) Everything seems to be right for Jung just after he leaves Massachusetts for California: He meets flight attendant Barbara (Franka Potente, of Run Lola Run fame) and gay hairdresser Derek Foreal (Paul Reubens, once known as Pee-Wee Herman, in full-on camp mode). Through Derek, Jung becomes a small-time pot dealer on Manhattan Beach, but his dreams are bigger, and he flies into Mexico to the source...
...arrest of Jung in Chicago is the movie’s point of innocence lost. After his hearing, Jung learns that Barbara has cancer and skips bail to be with her, the first sign of a devotion to people that will be a constant theme in the movie. Jung is arrested after Barbara’s death and thrown into jail, where he shares a cell with a Colombian, Diego Delgado (Spanish actor Jordi Molla, making his American feature film debut). Upon Jung’s release, Diego introduces him to Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). It?...
...preeminent black woman author in America today, her language and ideas powerful enough to prompt critics to place her among the ranks of the greatest English writers ever. (“Only Shakespeare rivals her for the number of senior theses devoted to her work,” Professor Barbara Johnson quipped when introducing Morrison.) Morrison is without a doubt the preeminent black woman author in America today. Go back and re-read that sentence. Then subtract the two words before “author.” Few people would argue the veracity of the statement, but Morrison would...
...exaggeration to say that Morrison is the most celebrated author in the United States," said Literature concentration chair Barbara Johnson, who introduced the author. "Only Shakespeare rivals her for the number of senior theses written about her work...