Word: disbelief
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...willing suspension of disbelief is necessary from the very outset of "A Family Thing," with its unlikely pairing of Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones as brothers. Unfortunately, an improbable premise is not the movie's only problem: despite the weight of its two lead actors, it ultimately fails to achieve any lasting emotional impact...
...whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left has been Yale law professor and Camp David guest Stephen L. Carter, best known for advocating, in The Culture of Disbelief, a more vigorous role for religion in our political life...
DURING ITS 54 WEEKS ON THE air, the WB netlet has produced the sort of programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...
...cell, flanked on the right by the captain's quarter's, and on the left, through a chain link fence, the hallway of the hold. The actors also walked behind the audience. There was a definite sense that you were in the ship (well, if you can truly suspend disbelief...
Clearly, The Juror isn't interested in placing its heroine in the kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays...