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...Where is Lucie Blackman? For that matter, who is Lucie Blackman? Lucie is a pretty blond Englishwoman who disappeared one night from a Tokyo nightclub. British prime minister Tony Blair is among those concerned about the fate of the former British Airways flight attendant; on his way to Okinawa, Blair actually met with Lucie's dad, Tim, who is trying to put pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking...
...Blackman. With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington
...compassionate caretaker (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the sickly and proud game show host (Philip Baker Hall), his angry and cocaine-addicted daughter (Melora Walters), the suspiciously confident seduction guru (Tom Cruise), the lovelorn and by-the-book police officer (John C. Reilly), the celebrated but pressured boy genius (Jeremy Blackman), and the despondent and pathetic ex-boy genius (William H. Macy...
...that his end is nearing. Two-thirds through the film, he delivers a soliloquy that tragically articulates the pall hovering over all of Magnolia's characters, and as he moans his words of warning, we can sense him clutching the pieces of his broken heart. Also moving is young Blackman, who wears the forlornness of game show prodigy Stanley Spector like the best of character actors, depicting impeccably the angst of a child sequestered from the world by the curse of genius. And Walters, who has heretofore been relegated to the margins of Anderson's films, is devastating...
...With reporting by Ann Blackman...