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...trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When he fled, they shot...
Fearing for their lives, Charles' cousin and brother finally did what many Haitians are doing these days when they find themselves abused, tortured or terrorized by the police. They paid a visit to the offices of an organization called the Human Rights Fund. The group offers a number of services, including a special protection program for people who have been savaged by police officers whom the U.S. recruited, trained and turned loose on the streets of Haiti in July 1995. This, needless to say, does not come cheap. But fortunately there is a ready source of cash. That's because...
...attractive American girl of the late 19th century, Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) comes to England to visit her wealthy expatriate relatives. She succeeds in charming both her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett (Martin Donovan), and a fine English lord (Richard Grant). But she refuses the lord's proposal of marriage and expresses her desire to see more of life. Her cousin, intrigued by her independent vision, persuades his dying father (John Gielgud) to leave her sufficient money to realize her dreams. Mr. Touchett complies, and upon his death Isabel inherits a fortune...
...cold-hearted aesthete and fortune-hunter, Gilber Osmond (John Malkovich). Their marriage quickly sours, and tensions between them rise to a crisis. First, Lord Warburton, Isabel's old suitor, reappears and begins to pay court to Pansy, Osmond's lovely but completely subjugated daughter. Later, Isabel learns that her cousin Ralph is dying...
...theater has a right to talk through the movie--particularly if it's a guy sitting right behind you whose voice could be used to torture political prisoners in South America and who can't stop talking about how much the actress playing the matrimonial lawyer resembles his Cousin Edna, the one who ran off with the sheet-rock installer. In this situation, you don't need a citation from Oliver Wendell Holmes. You only need an usher. The usher can explain to Torture Voice that he has every right to carry on a conversation, but he'll have...