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...Donna Reed look like Medea—until she finds her husband making out with another man and herself falling in love with the African American gardener. As her reputation and family life shatter, Moore’s prim mother strains admirably and pathetically to keep herself going. Her character??s pristine married life behind her, the concluding expression on Moore’s face is as poignant and devastating as that of Meryl Streep’s suicide victim in Sophie’s Choice. Far from Heaven screens...
...Francisco Examiner praised the film’s depiction of the lead character??s acid trip as “the most brutal and convincing acid trip ever filmed,” and the San Franciso Chronicle said Toback’s recent movies “are automatically interesting because he made them...
...Johanna” could benefit from more passion, his vocal delivery is more than worth the price of a ticket (even when it’s not comped). His reputation as one of Harvard’s finest tenors is well deserved, and he conveys his character??s wholesomeness consistently and believably...
Unfortunately, the blocking is not all that is static. The preferred acting style of the cast involves choosing one note in which to plant a character??and never breaking from it. Korich’s note in playing the antagonist is well-chosen—a dark scowl and a booming voice calculated to intimidate all those in his path—but it prevents him from finding the subtleties expressed by his character??s humor. As Lt. Cmdr. JoAnn Galloway, the passionate but inexperienced attorney who assists Kaffee, Marcie Ulin ’02 comes...
With all of this unnamed father’s machinations, it should seem that the father character is clearly chemically imbalanced, but Paxton strives to keep his character??s sanity ambiguously, if not intriguingly, in doubt. As he gathers his items and receives his list of victims, Dad’s heavenly visions are flushed out in computer-generated glory that seem convincing enough. However, the film’s point of view leaves questions as to the full depth and breath of each character??s true intentions. Or, at least we would question motives were...