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...CLIENT, an 11-year-old boy named Mark Sway (Brad Renfro) must get out of dire straits on his own because his father is long gone and his mother is slatternly and foolish. In Angels in the Outfield, an 11-year-old boy named Roger (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is left in a foster home by his feckless father and requires the intervention of a heavenly host to help him. In North, an 11- year-old boy named North (Elijah Wood) becomes so disaffected from his parents that he chooses "free agency" and spends the rest of the picture trying...
...play follows the ongoing correspondence of Melissa Gardner (Wendy Coleman) and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III (Justin Levitt). Through a series of letters, postcards and notes, a complex relationship unfolds, beginning in the second grade and continuing all the way through adulthood. Trading the Science Center basement for cozier Eliot House library, the play creates an intimate atmosphere with minimal props and preparation. In fact, the story requires little other than the dark wood-paneling and aristocratic leather armchairs of the library to conjure up the upper-crust backgrounds of the two characters...
Since the play limits itself to the indirect interaction through letters, the characters cannot depend on actions or gestures to help convey the varying depth and quality of their feelings. Both Coleman and Levitt give convincing performances and maximize the impact of each line of the script through careful attention to their tone and inflections in speech. Coleman manages to portray a seven-year-old princess, promiscuous teenager, and troubled, jaded socialite all in succession. Occassionally, she borders on emotional excess; for example, the repeated emphasis on her despicable stepfather's name seems overdone and jarring. But overall, her charged...
...Levitt also plays his role with sencerity. He acts with a wide-eyed earnestness that matches the boyish naivete of Andy. Andy is the one who loves to write letters and insists that the more reluctant to write letters and insists that the more reluctant Melissa do the same. According to Andy, letters allow him to give a part of his thoughts and feelings away completely. They are the most unselfish way to show his feelings...
...ensuing conversation, Levitt asked, "How can you guys not agree on this?" Retorted Berrard: "What would you say if you were advising Blockbuster?" That gave Levitt the opening he needed to persuade Berrard to * start talking again to Viacom. The upshot: Viacom finally agreed to a revised collar that would compensate Blockbuster shareholders for any drop in Viacom stock over a one-year period. That satisfied Blockbuster, which had originally insisted on compensation for any stock drop at the closing of the merger...