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...played by Mark Wahlberg would not seem to be short on glamour: his mother is Ellen Burstyn; his aunt is Faye Dunaway; the girl he left behind is Charlize Theron. But he and the movie do lack drama. This all-star study in blue-collar venality (remember Cop Land?) is both speech- and sight-impaired: the dialogue is all mumbles and whispers; the palette dabbles in blacks and dark browns. The film is so muted it disappears from your view even before it recedes from your memory...
...Harry locked his mother in the closet." The first line of Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, vigorously transposed to film by the venturesome director of [Pi], gets to the essence of two warring addicts: mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), the Blanche DuBois of Brighton Beach, and her son (Jared Leto). Mom swears by amphetamines and TV hucksters; Harry loves heroin and his desperate girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). Using the bravery of his actors, and every trick in a smart cineast's book, Aronofsky takes the viewer on a jolting trip through the theme park called Hell. It's a demanding film...
...older married couple experiencing conflict on the eve of the reconfirmation of their wedding vows. Trent (Stewart) is a slick lawyer pursuing Meredith (Anderson), a neurotic theater director. Strangely, these two seem to be the only characters that work at anything other than finding their true love. Mildred (Ellen Burstyn) bonds with her son (Jay Mohr) on his deathbed, where they exchange long-concealed secrets. Gracie (Madeleine Stowe) pursues an adulterous, purely sexual relationship with Roger (Edwards), a no-strings-attached acquaintance with an ironic occupation. The most compelling story involves Hugh (Quaid), a character who wanders through various bars...
JOLSON: THE MUSICAL This tribute to the Mammy singer was a hit in London. Mike Burstyn stars in the U.S. tour, beginning next month in Cleveland, Ohio...
That's pretty much the message of How to Make an American Quilt, as received by Finn (Winona Ryder), a graduate student who spends a small-town summer with her grandmother and aunt (Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft), working on her thesis and getting her head together. As things work out, she seems to devote most of her time to gathering instructive reminiscences from them and the rest of the ladies in their quilting bee. They are neither so genteel nor stridently feminist as you might fear...