Word: carrey
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...potentially disastrous strike by actors was averted. Judging by the results from this holiday movie season, the moguls shouldn't have been so worried: big stars, once the industry's most dependable insurance policy, carried little clout at the box office. Major holiday releases with expensive stars like Jim Carrey (The Majestic) and Meg Ryan (Kate & Leopold) bombed, and even Tom Cruise couldn't turn Vanilla Sky into a blockbuster. Meanwhile, star-free projects like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings set box-office records. "With many of 2001's big hits, the draw was not a star...
...hour or so, The Majestic looks like the perfect post-Sept. 11 Christmas card. In repose, Carrey has the right face for this role: handsome-ordinary and lightly fretful. He and an over-the-hill gang of character actors (especially Landau, who does winsome as well as any 70-year-old) ground their fable in Golden Age geniality. But the story has to carry way too much weight, as war remorse battles McCarthyism. The Majestic's makers don't get what made Capra movies invigorating: a ferocious pace and the realization that even the nicest townsfolk have weaknesses and venalities...
STARRING: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, James Whitmore DIRECTOR: Frank Darabont...
...what-if plot for its year-end inspirationals. Michael Sloane's script butters the Capra-corn with another '40s touchstone: Preston Sturges' Hail the Conquering Hero, about a 4-F fellow mistaken as a war hero when he returns home. Here the unwilling impostor is a screenwriter (Carrey) who escapes Hollywood when he's marked for blacklisting and ends up an amnesiac in a town claiming him as its own. Suddenly he's got a father (Landau), a girlfriend (Holden) and the burden of greatness...
...Majestic December 21 After two consecutive adaptations of serialized Stephen King prison novels, crowd-pleasing director Frank Darabont once again enters the world of the uplifting. The Majestic tells the story of Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who loses his memory in a car accident. Appleton finds himself in a small California town, and is mistaken for the lost son of Harry Trimble (Martin Landau). Here he joins the task of revamping an old movie theatre, The Majestic, along with rediscovering himself, finding true love and other such escapades, such as evading the Communist hunters who eventually...