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...identical to past roles she’s had in films such as Double Jeopardy and Kiss the Girls—a strong woman facing improbable circumstances who must prove herself in a thick milieu of masculinity. While she delivers a capable performance, Judd fails to fully portray her character??s deeper psychiatric struggles, and the audience is left perplexed as to some of the character??s decisions and motives. Co-stars Jackson and Garcia play their parts well, but are crippled by the poor dialogue of screenwriter Sarah Thorp, whose script traps the characters...
...says he spent weeks helping Bergstein rewrite her script, penning the choice words that open the film. He also helped craft the role of a third love interest for Clayburgh’s character??a young male mathematician who he says was studiously modeled after his own mannerisms and attitudes. Sadly, Gross says his screen-doppelganger ended up on the cutting-room floor after filming...
...passes once the Crimson led by three TDs, Harvard didn’t have a single drive longer than three minutes. If you take out Corey Mazza’s 64-yard TD reception—the only second-half reminder of the Crimson’s big-play character??there was no drive longer than 18 yards. In the final three quarters, there were only five first downs, compared with six three-and-outs...
...this is hardly enough to sustain a play, which has to be why almost every line of dialogue is repeated three or four times, why the actors take three-second pauses two or three times in every sentence and why there are frequent minute-long intervals devoted to a character??s getting dressed or lighting lanterns. A line like “the water had a soft lilac glow” takes about thirty seconds for the actors to deliver...
...shop made famous when Matt Damon’s character slapped a piece of paper with Minnie Driver’s character??s number on the window returned two and half weeks ago to the corner of Mass. Ave and Bow Street...