Word: costner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hanks said that he looked forward to truly feeling like the Man of the Year, and sharing the experiences of previous winners Kevin Costner and Steven Spielberg...
...Cinema: Costner shines in the Gumpish drama...
Lidia (Lexi Randall) and her younger brother Stu (Elijah Wood) have it rough. Mom (Mare Winningham) has to be the family glue, because Dad (Kevin Costner) has returned from Vietnam damaged and crushed. By most standards, he is a failure, so he pours his ambitions into his kids, who think he's a saint. "Maybe he died in that war," one of them says, "and God sent him back to us for one last visit." If so, it is to supervise, by remote control, a replay of his and America's Vietnam trauma...
...McWorter and director Jon Avnet alternate these moral mud baths with warm soaks in sentimentality. Sometimes The War is so noble you want to spank it. But as it spins fascinatingly out of control, the film is nevertheless secured by the four splendid actors who play the Simmons family. Costner, a daring actor in his narrow range, lets his voice and heart break subtly on every line. And the two kids are fine -- full of sense, discretion and what we used to call gumption...
Like that night in Atlanta. The last straw, that which decisively broke my will, came at the movie's end when Kevin Costner asked his "dad" if he might want to play catch...