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...stains the C.V.s of some fairly honorable movie people. The director is Gregory Hoblit, who helped dream up the distinctive visual styles of the TV shows Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, and directed the not-bad crazy-killer thriller Primal Fear (which introduced Edward Norton to film audiences). Two of the writers, Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker, are first-timers, but the rewrite man (or in this case woman), Allison Burnett, scripted last year's saucy, amiable Robert Benton movie Feast of Love. I know a buck is a buck, if not nearly a Euro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiding from Untraceable | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

It’s the classic murder tale: husband discovers wife is cheating, husband murders wife, husband walks away from trial a free man. O.J. Simpson, anyone? Director Gregory Hoblit (“NYPD Blue,” “L.A. Law”) brings his crime and courtroom expertise to the big screen with “Fracture.” Though the movie’s promotional posters (Anthony Hopkins smiling sinisterly under the words “I shot my wife”) may lead audiences to believe that the film will be filled with dramatic...

Author: By Victoria D. Sung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fracture | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Director Gregory Hoblit and screenwriters Billy Ray and Terry George, working from John Katzenbach’s novel, desperately try to create a movie that is both a courtroom drama and a war story, though they lack the prerequisite fighting of a war movie and the judicial aspects of a compelling courtroom drama. Furthermore, the film’s message about honor and courage is blatantly spelled out; for the moviegoer who might miss the lesson, a voiceover describes how the protagonist is now able to tell his son the true meaning of the words for which he fights. These...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Willis, Farrell: Fighting the Bore War | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

...portion of the film does not begin for some time, leaving the viewer confused as to where the movie is headed. While these ending scenes might be the essence of the movie, the beginning is more compelling and believable. When the court-martial and subsequent war-related scenes begin, Hoblit switches from showing to telling, and the former is more effective...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Willis, Farrell: Fighting the Bore War | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

Directed By Gregory Hoblit...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Willis, Farrell: Fighting the Bore War | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

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