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...script's improbabilities is what makes them believable to the audience. A Manhattan native, he has been acting since he was four and has been around actors -- his own family -- all his life. His father Christopher has appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...
...Bonnie Bedelia, who plays McLane's wife, Holly, does a fine job as one of the many unsuspecting hostages, and adds an element of comic relief. Her ability is wasted by simply using her as a trophy for Willis to claim after he slays his machine-gun toting dragons...
Next Pakula had to give faces -- famous faces -- to Scott Turow's page people. Bonnie Bedelia plays Rusty Sabich's wife, Raul Julia his defense counsel, Brian Dennehy the prosecutor, Paul Winfield the judge, Greta Scacchi the luckless love. And as the accused, Pakula selected Harrison Ford, segueing handsomely from Star Wars and Indiana Jones hunkdom to acclaimed actor. The casting pleased Turow. "Ever since the book came out, people have been saying that I'm Rusty," he told Ford when they met. "I'm glad you're playing him. Now people will identify the character with...
...what John McClane (Willis) becomes in Die Hard, though he too is introduced as a cop out of water. The script, by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, has McClane, a New York City detective, going to the Los Angeles office Christmas party of his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) in hopes of a reconciliation. Because the bash is taking place on a high floor of a high- rise, the revelers are easily sealed off from outside aid by an invading terrorist gang. The thugs miss McClane, who is in the john when they strike, so he is free...
THROUGHOUT THE FILM, Shirley seems as mechanical as the car she drives. It is only when she is leaving her husband that we see her break down on a payphone to her young son Bedelia's grief at this moment is so convincing that it almost makes up for her emotional rigidity throughout the rest of the film...