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...panic-provoking War of the Worlds broadcast. His fine craft illuminated film scripts for Casablanca (1942), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and-notoriously-the Soviet-friendly Mission to Moscow in 1943. Though not a communist, Koch was blacklisted in the 1950s. He outlived his vilifiers, enduring with grace and grit worthy of Bogart's Rick...
...When Grace's marriage heads south, she packs up her daughter and heads home to the family horse farm and a confrontation with the past that made her what she is--a woman too emotionally guarded and self-denying for her own good. Dad (Robert Duvall) is the soft-drawling dictator of a prosperous domain. Mom (Gena Rowlands) is the perpetual placater, for whom niceness is a moral imperative. Big Sister (Kyra Sedgwick) has a tough but funny tongue and, one guesses, a damaged soul...
...Grace? Grace is simply beside herself. At her genteel woman's club she asks anyone else who has been sleeping with her husband to please identify herself. She also airs all the ladies' sexual secrets. The uproar is hilarious. Back at the ranch, she asserts herself--and the reality principle--more hesitantly...
Seems to you you've heard this song before? Yes. But it is very sweetly sung here. Khouri writes characters, not tracts; dialogue, not bumper stickers; and she has the good sense to let the men have their say--notably Eddie, who makes Grace understand that her distraction contributed to his wanderlust...
...encounter with her husband. It is not, mostly, about anger; it is about self-astonishment--at all she had inside her; at her unexpected (and scary) bravado in letting it out. Her performance is emblematic of a movie that, a few sideslips into familiar sentiment aside (they usually involve Grace's child, played by Haley Aull), never lets its political correctness interfere with its delight in human incorrectness...