Word: likelies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story like this could easily have become TV-movie-of-the-week material; but it's a strong script, and even stronger acting, that carry this movie to great heights. Based on co-writer Angela Shelton's childhood memoirs, the screenplay is honest, emotionally charged and surprisingly intimate in what it reveals about the very strong bond between a mother and her daughter. Each scene is believable and completely organic; it's very easy to forget that you're not watching a real-life story unfold, and that the main duo aren't really related at all. Gavin O'Connor...
...Playing with Drew has been great," Prasse-Freeman said. "We're both quick and handle the ball well, so when we're both on the court, it's like we have two point guards on the floor...
...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, he'd start talking like Bill Cosby on 'Picture Pages.' Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and cliche-ridden as Nadine Gordimer's regrettable new release, Living in Hope and History...
...kind of cheap inspiration imparted by this excerpt from the weakest section of The Cure at Troy is perfect for earnest and boring lightweights like Doubletake Magazine which takes the same quote as its mantra but one would really expect more substance from Gordimer, whose fiction breathes with implacable moral force...