Word: cusack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Cusack, meanwhile, imbues Dimitri with a sympathetic glow that we rarely see in animated leading men. He is fascinating in his idiosyncrasies. Stubborn, grumbling and not particularly heroic, his character palette exhibits strong emotional development...
...faithful. Midnight was a big book, with lots of great stories. That kind of thing can't be compressed. And, as one of the faithful, I agree. Indeed, I wish more of the movie had been devoted to those great stories instead of long, lingering shots of John Cusack's pretty face...
...movie, this smart, self-aware narrator has been excised and replaced with the baby-faced John Cusack, and the results are disastrous. Midnight is one of those rare films that cries out for a voice-over, but Eastwood and his writers seem to have consciously avoided that course of action. Instead, they give us John Kelso (Cusack), an idealistic young writer from New York who comes to Savannah to write an essay on a Christmas party and ends up getting involved in Williams' murder trial. By embroiling Kelso in the plot, the refreshing detachment of Berendt's narrative is lost...
...hustlers, drag queens and witches. Berendt's narrator revels unrepentantly in Savannah's decadence and its culture of closeted scandal. He falls in love with the city's roguishness, its peculiar brand of dark but endearing degeneracy cloaked in gentility. In short, he is nothing like Cusack's dippy, sententious young idealist. The closest he comes to romance is a date with a drag queen. And he certainly bears no resemblance to the late Elvis Presley, whom Cusack and his sideburns are trying their damnedest to impersonate...
...years after the Rasputinolution, Anya (Meg Ryan) is 18 and alone. She meets Dimitri (John Cusack), a onetime palace servant with a 10 million-ruble scheme: to take a suitable young woman to Paris, persuade Marie that the girl is Anastasia and pocket the reward money. The usual complications ensue--boy hates girl, boy loves girl, girl keeps tripping annoyingly over scarf, dead monk tries to kill girl--accompanied by lilting melodies...