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No sadistic cop??could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk out on him. In just a few minutes, Larry (Clive Owen) has experienced the first five stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna (Julia Roberts) about her lover Dan (Jude Law), he atavizes into Caveman, the alpha male in competitive fury. "Where did you make love: What parts of the house, what parts of the body?" "How did Dan perform?" "Was he 'better'?" "Gentler," she acknowledges...
...often unexpressed longings of this group, to make that essentially 19th century figure, the resourceful Western loner, into a 20th century character. For what, after all, are Eastwood's many cops but Westerners wearing suits instead of chaps, carrying an automatic instead of a six-gun? Clint's first cop???Coogan in Coogan's Bluff?is a Westerner, an Arizona deputy sheriff who goes to New York City to extradite a prisoner and is soon on a collision course with police-judicial bureaucracy. So is his cop in The Gauntlet, Phoenix lawman also on an extradition job. As for Reynolds...
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