Word: lloyd
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...therefore is all the more disappointing that this project coordinated by an award-winning director and staffed by a mostly stellar cast fails to live up to its promise and its potential. In Country is burdened by a badly written screenplay and a poor performance by co-star Emily Lloyd. Ultimately, the best of intentions and outstanding performances by co-star Bruce Willis and a very capable supporting cast are not enough for In Country to fulfill its potential as a true and meaningful commentary on an important and ongoing American experience...
Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith (Bruce Willis) is in the audience watching the graduation of his niece Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) from the local high school in Hopewell, Kentucky Samantha never knew her father who was her age when he left to fight in Vietnam but she does become obsessed with the need to find out about her father, and she is dismayed to find that no one around her is willing to talk about...
Part of the problem with the movie lies in the fact that Lloyd's portrayal of Samantha as a dizzy, under-educated Southerner fails to lend her character either sympathy or depth. Part of the problem lies with the screenwriters Frank Pierson and Cynthia Cidre, whose dialogue is often inept and who are unable to find the coherence behind the episodic novel by Bobbie Ann Mason upon which In Country is based...
...result of a bad screenplay and a poor acting job on the part of Lloyd is a movie which lacks pacing, coherence and emotional depth for its first hour. But as In Country shifts its focus more toward the relationship between Samantha and Emmett, the movie gains a lot of the truth and pathos which was missing from the start...
...campaign as a giveaway to the rich (60% of its benefits will go to people with incomes of more than $200,000), the measure is expected to pass in the House. Mitchell vows to try to derail it in the Senate, but he is without the support of Texas' Lloyd Bentsen, who as chairman of the Finance Committee could be his most powerful ally...