Word: earnest
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...Still, Thornton, best known in recent years for his sleazy roles in “Bad Santa” and “Bad News Bears” — note the repetition of “bad” — is not believable as an earnest former astronaut who was forced to give up his desire to travel into space after his father’s untimely death...
...most part, the film continues in this cloyingly earnest vein, dedicated to telling its quasi-inspirational story with no jokes beyond the understanding of small children. (Lucky Charms cereal deserves an acting credit for its centrality to the plot.) The Farmers live in a town where everyone knows everyone’s business and the county fair is the event of the season...
Admittedly, “The Astronaut Farmer” has a certain forced charm. It features an uncommonly amusing cell phone ring and earns a few other good-natured laughs. Its earnest nature is at times compelling: it is refreshing to see a family film that lacks an ironical mocking of children beneath its surface. Still, filmmakers erred in naming one of the Farmers’ daughters Sunshine—seriously, trying too hard...
...city councilman in Cleveland. At 31, he's the country's youngest big city mayor. All this success, you figure, would make his skin glow a little, his suits a bit spiffier, his speeches a little punchier. But what if he was so damn earnest that it didn't? What if at 60 he still looked and sounded like Dennis Kucinich...
...whether you can endure the setbacks and still meet each day with integrity and courage." That, though, is the test of moral fiber, not the test of power. The test of power is whether you can persuade others to do your will. And it may be that an earnest man with progressive ideas who still can't make a decent campaign poster will always fail that test...