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...literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed and worsen until they precipitate divorce.The emotional fallout from this decision, particularly for the couple’s sons Walt and Frank (played by Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline respectively), is devastating. The film’s tagline—“Joint custody blows”—succinctly summarizes their feelings about the new family arrangement. Jeff Daniels’ performance demands special recognition: he inhabits his character so completely that the word “acting?...
...Whale is domestic tragedy recollected as comedy: a film whose catalog of deceits and embarrassments, and of love pratfalling over itself, makes it as (excruciatingly) painful as it is (exhilaratingly) funny. Its family quartet--including Laura Linney as wife Joan, Jesse Eisenberg as 16-year-old Walt and Owen Kline as his 12-year-old brother Frank--is a fearless, faultless acting ensemble...
Actors thrive on this approach too. The production attracted such names as Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin (who play a country-music sister act and really sing), teen tabloid queen Lindsay Lohan (Streep's daughter), Kevin Kline (Guy Noir, the private-eye character on Companion) and Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly (Companion's singing cowboys, Dusty and Lefty...
...essay the role of the brooding, mordantly comic, half-mad prince is to brave comparison with Garrick and Booth, Burton and Olivier. Kline may not yet rank among that pantheon, but he has vaulted over his contemporaries with this production. His performance ripens and changes night by night. It still seems unfinished in some scenes, too cautious in others, and is on the whole a bit quiet and constrained to energize a melodrama nearly four hours long. But he speaks the text with clarity and command, and he makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger...
...Kline can be volatile: the cast of Pirates saw him punch huge holes in his dressing-room walls out of frustration with a performance. Yet his colleagues speak with deep affection. Says Glenn Close, a co-star in The Big Chill: "He was a worrier, unbelievably insecure. We would always tease him about how much he would look in the mirror at himself. He said that he thought his nose looked like a potato and that he had no upper...