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...film, directed by Michael Winterbottom, dramatizes the relationship of two journalists: Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) and his Franco-Cuban wife Mariane (Jolie), a freelancer for French TV, who's five months pregnant with a child Danny wants to call Adam. While researching a story on the shoe-bomber Richard Reid, Danny was abducted by Islamic radicals. Five anguished weeks later, Mariane learned that he had been brutally slaughtered. The film is based on Mariane's memoir, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, which she wrote to explain her husband...
...Guantanamo all mixed documentary footage with either fictional scenes played by professional actors or reenactments by the actual participants. A Mighty Heart is a more straightforward docudrama, following the horrific tick-tock of Mariane's ordeal. As played by Jolie, she is a demanding, nails-tough woman, while Futterman's Danny is more easy-going but no less tenacious at his job - a good reporter, and a mensch...
...Futterman, right, is an actor, a writer and an actor who plays writers. Most viewers met him as the writer brother of Judge Gray on Judging Amy. Then he penned 2005's Capote, about a reporter's relationship with a murderer. And this summer in A MIGHTY HEART, Futterman plays the Wall Street Journal's Danny Pearl, left, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. Angelina Jolie stars as Pearl's pregnant wife Mariane, on whose book the film is based. Despite starting with the morning of Pearl's 2002 abduction, the film tells more of how the energetic reporter...
...trees, and overcast skies. He is the center of attention, not the murders, but the audience doesn’t mind as Capote’s quips break the tension.Despite a tremendous rookie effort (Miller has one documentary and a slate of TV commercials to his name; writer Dan Futterman, making his screenwriting debut, is better known for his roles in “The Birdcage” or on TV’s “Judging Amy”) there are a few missteps from the new guys. Viewers are pounded with occasional hammer-to-the-head moments...
...Futterman, Alan Cumming, Matt Keeslar...