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...fluffed up version of rock 'n' roll is Sarah Polley, who really makes Go the success that it is. Polley indulges in 18-year-old Ronna's predicament, which blossoms from the opportunity to make some much-needed rent money off a drug deal while her friend Simon (Desmond Askew), a supermarket co-worker and the usual middle man, is out of town. Conveying Ronna's sly confidence in the temporary world of criminal mischief is Polley's ultimate strength. Her character deftly handles every potentially dangerous situation, able to hock her friend Claire (Katie Holmes) as collateral...
...fluffed up version of rock 'n' roll is Sarah Polley, who really makes Go the success that it is. Polley indulges in 18-year-old Ronna's predicament, which blossoms from the opportunity to make some much-needed rent money off a drug deal while her friend Simon (Desmond Askew), a supermarket coworker and the usual middle man, is out of town. Conveying Ronna's sly confidence in the temporary world of criminal mischief is Polley's ultimate strength. Her character deftly handles every potentially dangerous situation, able to hock her friend Claire (Katie Holmes) as collateral for a bottleful...
...doesn't stink. August and director Doug Liman, of that lovely L.A. fable Swingers, have many amusing tricks to play on you. Ronna (Polley) is substituting for Simon (Desmond Askew), now off to Vegas, who retails drugs on the side. Soap opera stars Adam (Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) want to buy some from Ronna, who needs rent money. Claire (Holmes) thinks that's all very cool, until she is left as collateral with Simon's evil wholesaler Todd (Timothy Olyphant). The movie is rather too frolicsome about drug use, but it carries an internal message...
...more cases like ex-Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and her late, wheelchair-bound millionaire husband than there are like elementary school teacher Mary Letourneau and her 13-year-old boyfriend. But since men tend to accrue wealth and power as they age, it's a bit odd, as zoologist Desmond Morris once noted, that baldness doesn't necessarily activate the female swoon response. It may be smart for women to go for the billionaires and tribal big shots, but in practice their choices are often politically and economically irrational, if not self-destructive. Helen dumped a perfectly good warrior-king...
...SHOW The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer: Cartoonish show about Lincoln's butler that drew protests from African-American groups