Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ironically, the inspiration for this comic look at matrimony from a woman's point of view comes from a man--the film's writer, producer and director, David Frankel '81. Though influenced by both Woody Allen and Nora Ephorn, Frankel creates a unique female comic role which is neither neurotic nor sappy. Through sharp dialogue and a genuinely funny performance from Parker, Frankel refreshingly portrays love...
...perform--they must display their lives as model, and their family as exemplary. When at last the family stands reunited on the steps of Saint Paul's for the celebration of George's recovery, Hynter manages to make the viewer believe that this is indeed a heroic act. Tragic, comic, and heroic--"The Madness of King George" really lives up to long-forgotten standards of entertainment...
Though Frankel said he did not have Parker in mind for the lead in his first feature film, about a young woman confronting the hypocrisies of modern marriage, she was at the top of his list when casting began. "Sarah's a comic genius," he said...
Katy Gibb is one of the better comic creations to come along in recent fiction, a moody, slovenly girl whose main weapon in life's wars is a brazen will. Bland, a decent soul at sea without his job, never does learn how she found out that the apartment across the hall from his was vacant during the tenants' vacation. She makes it her squat and him her quarry...
That is due largely to Rock's fine ferocity. A Liverpool club comic who never acted before, but who has survived an abusive marriage, Rock asks for no quarter and gives none. Here is a mother, she says, dishing it out and taking it. Now you decide what to do with Maggie, and the millions of women like her, in England, America and around the world...