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...decades later, Hyde has figured out how to "pay it forward" big time. This weekend (Oct. 20), her novel Pay It Forward becomes a major film starring Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, as well as nominee Haley Joel Osment. Hyde's book, published early this year, is just out in paperback. And across the U.S., kids and some adults are adopting the pay-it-forward philosophy, performing random acts of kindness. "Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic," says Hyde, who has watched the ideas...
After Osment signed on to the project, the Oscar winners piled on. Spacey (American Beauty) pulled in Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets). Hunt is Arlene, Trevor's emotionally bruised mom; Spacey is Eugene, the inspired teacher whose psyche is as scarred as his face. "It's an incredible love story between two scarred people," says Spacey. "These two lost people find each other and fall in love, with Arlene's son helping them along, in the cutest way possible. Sometimes you read scripts and there's a soppy love story, or an uplifting movie-of-the-week feeling...
...course, a victim of the Joan Crawford syndrome: messed up, but as curable, psychologically speaking, as the scarred stars of ancient weepies always were. Like them, he just needs to be loved. And Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt) is the girl to do it. She, naturally, has her own problems. She's a single mom, a waitress working extra shifts at a topless bar while she struggles with alcoholism; she hides her bottle in a chandelier, just as Ray Milland did in The Lost Weekend. But there's good stuff...
Water flows through Dr. T and the Women, Roger Altman's new ensemble comedy. In overcast Texas the clouds routinely open up, drenching the all-star cast, which includes Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Liv Tyler and budding starlet Kate Hudson. In fact, a source of water can be found in nearly every scene, be it an ornate fountain at the mall, a chirping sprinkler on a golf course, or a calm pond in the woods. As such, water gives the movie a sense of coherence. Which is good, because the plot certainly doesn...
...damn good at what he does. Consider this Gere's honors thesis at the University for Charming Leading Men. Other highlights include Shelly Long as Carolyn, T's plucky assistant, and Tara Reid as the doctor's conspiracy-obsessed daughter (she gives enthusiastic tours of the grassy knoll). Helen Hunt, usually dependable, plays Bree, the golf instructor Dr. T becomes romantically involved with after his wife is committed to a mental institution. The character, who is smart but cold, is an odd fit for Hunt. The Academy Award-winning actress can do better than this measly, unlikable role-Bree...