Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Annabella Sciorra has no room to do mediocre work, for her inscrutable character dooms any possibility for a good performance from the start. In various scenes she is a beautiful romantic, a warm mother, an edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her...
These character performances more or less indicate the nature of the production as a whole: marked by powerful moments and performers who do a laudable job with highly difficult roles, but marred by an apparent lack of a deep cohesiveness in the play's interpretation.
As a young Harvard graduate, for instance, Ellen feels pressured to live up to the expectations of her National Book Award-winning father George (even though he went to Yale). William Hurt, as George, offers us an almost totally inaccessible character. But Hurt's approach is perfectly metered; he sheds...
One True Thing is such an emotionally complex film that it literally wears its audience down. In the hands of director Carl Franklin (One False Move, Devil in a Blue Dress), the movie achieves rich layers and dramatic tension solely because of character depth. Three separate stories--the connection between...
But One True Thing wouldn't be more than a Hallmark TV movie-of-the-week if it weren't for the overwhelming performances of Zellwegger, Hurt and Streep. Proving that her star-turn in Jerry Maguire was no fluke, Zellwegger--inhabiting a character that at times seems in danger...