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...setting is harsh--a Maine orphanage in the early '40s, with war and sexual abuse looming--but the mood is warm and precise, as a flinty, laudanum-addicted doctor (the excellent Michael Caine) tutors his brightest charge (Tobey Maguire, the most watchful of young actors) to be his protege. Hallstrom, here as in My Life as a Dog and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, lets the characters carry the story without allowing the actors to push too hard. This is a film with the wisdom to see the myopia in good men, the charm in men who do bad things...
...director, Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog), is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way, as if they were engaged not in a movie but in real lives. Roberts' willowy vulnerability and watchful intelligence have never been shown to better advantage. And Rowlands is simply great in a scene where she breaks the silence of the years in a richly emotional 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...
...this is a comedy about adultery and its aftershocks. ButTIME's Richard Schickelsays it's much more than that. The funny, good-natured script, by Callie Khouri ("Thelma and Louise"), is another empowerment play, but deeper and more intricately subversive in its assault on American patriarchy. Director Lasse Hallstrom ("My Life as a Dog") is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way. And Gena Rowlands is simply great in a scene where she breaks the silence of the years in a richly emotional encounter with her husband. "Her performance," says Shickel, "is emblematic...
...than anybody in the world. I just don't think it would hurt us to not cut taxes right now." In Beloit-the Democratic section of the district that Neumann did not carry-the sentiment was even more heated. "You've been voting to hurt other people," said Bill Hallstrom, a Beloit engineer. "You voted for a tax cut for the rich-you're giving them a break at the expense of the poor." Elkhorn Rotarians, who feted Neumann with a luncheon, were equally clear. Said V. Kirt Fiegel, whose firm makes parts for surgical and other tools: "The deep...
Needless to say, a big, strong detective comes on the scene to protect our heroine. The interplay--the flirting, fucking, and fighting--between Emma and Detective John Hallstrom (Aidan "Ole Blue Eyes" Quinn) is so hackneyed that you begin to feel embarrassed for the actors. The embarrassment grows during the required epiphanal sex scene. Against a background of Muzak, we are treated to close-ups of the big blue vein in the side of Madeleine Stowe's boob and the long hair on Aidan Quinn's chest. Director Apted has no sense of tasteful nudity. Or relevant nudity, for that...