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...woman cottage industry. The Oscar win has brought Blue Sky back into limited release, prior to an April 18 debut in video stores. In Losing Isaiah, she stars as an adoptive mother in a custody battle. And beginning this Friday she can be seen in Rob Roy, Michael Caton-Jones' epic of a legendary Scotsman (Liam Neeson) and the woman who shared his pain and cheered...
...script by Robert Getchell, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, contains some elisions and some dramatic heightening, but nothing outrageous. It opens with a young Toby (nicely played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his mother Caroline (Ellen Barkin) adrift in the West in the 1950s, looking for work. She's penniless, on the run from a broken marriage and an inappropriate lover. She has a good heart but not a very sensible one, and she falls in with Dwight Hansen (Robert De Niro), an auto mechanic from dreary Concrete, Washington...
...admits that Getchell and director Michael Caton-Jones found a way to make the movie work. "It took me out of myself," he says, rather oddly for somebody who is supposed to be seeing his own boyhood. What he means, he says, is that "I was watching a movie; I was caught up in it." The main street of Concrete, Washington, looks, after a lot of work by set builders, exactly as it did in the '50s. Tobias thinks the actors were marvelous, particularly Leonardo DiCaprio as Toby in a car-stealing scene, a dumb adolescent stunt that happened just...
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones...
Directed by Michael Caton-Jones; Screenplay by Michael Thomas...