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...hovering like a hurricane over the South Carolina beaches, you take bets on whether that mud puddle was in Afghanistan or Iraq, What's it going to be? Paralysis? Or straight-up dead? Either way, you anticipate a good cry, all anyone wants from a Sparks product. With Lasse Hallstrom directing, you also expect the tears to be jerked from you with class...
...John. The cruel twist of fate is constructed out of nothing, laboriously maneuvered into place and then just left there, an illogical mess dampening all romance. This isn't a love story, it's a misery story that drags on, not to a dramatic conclusion but a tepid moment. Hallstrom and screenwriter Jamie Linden want to be true to Sparks' original sadistic ending, but they also want to leave the happiness door ever so slightly ajar. The result is a sense of "Huh? That's it?" (See the best movies of the decade...
...Mainstream psychiatry remains skeptical of HVN's approach. Dr. Cosmo Hallstrom, a fellow at the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London, says hallucinations are usually symptoms of illness, particularly schizophrenia. He says that people who need psychiatric treatment don't always know it, and worries that support groups like HVN could impede efforts to "combat the scourge of mental illness." Still, he adds that "more than one approach may be valid" and that the real danger may not be hearing voices, but hearing them without some form of support - psychiatric or otherwise...
...movie, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and written by William Weaver, doesn't quite say so, but one gets the impression that by the end of Irving's odyssey, he may actually think he has had access to Hughes. What the hell - he's learned to emulate Hughes' handwriting and his voice. Maybe he really is, in some mystic way, channeling the legendary nut job. Susskind is less fortunate; he's always sweatily in touch with reality and with the potentially unpleasant consequences of what they're doing...
Ledger seems to have had enough rebellion for a while because the movie he made after Brokeback is the ultimate heterosexual fantasy. In Casanova, out Christmas Day, directed by Hallstrom, he's the swashbuckling charmer for whom his fans have been waiting. It's a very Disney Casanova, with minimal sex and maximal caper (Hot-air balloons! Masked balls! Duels! Mistaken identities!). Ledger, who plays the legendary lover, opposite Sienna Miller, is not too proud to admit that the appeal of the movie lay more in a 120-day shoot in Venice, where he could unwind from Brokeback, than...