Word: malkoviches
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...employer's life with rebels who have captured him), the reporter dismisses broad hints about what the fate of a Cambodian native who has served a Western employer might be if the Communists seize power. When he and some fellow journalists (among them the good John Malkovich) try to concoct a false passport the gesture is too little, too late. Pran is sent to forced labor and forced re-education in the countryside, where millions died, while Schanberg, back home, pulls what distant wires he can to rescue...
...addition to caring for her two children, played with an admirable lack of the cutesiness so common among children actors today, Edna takes in a blind boarder (John Malkovich) and a wondering black man (Danny Glover) who "knows everything there is to know about cotton." With this cast of misfits, Edna is determined to beat the local bank when the shadow of an unpaid mortgage threatens to tear her family apart...
...hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes place. And a wary customer may be forgiven for wondering if the shades of D.W. Griffith and John Steinbeck are warring for possession of Writer-Director Robert...
...wife and, as he has carefully pointed out, some of Sally Field's background. The same is true of Glover's Moze, who developed out of a black man who worked for Benton's family, but whose magnetic presence is a tribute to the performer. Similarly, Malkovich's blind boarder, imposed on Edna's household by the smarmy banker. He is based on a granduncle of Benton's, who indeed had a recording for the blind of Trent's Last Case, which the director was forbidden to touch when he was a child...
...founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places in the Heart. In his liberal adaptation of Wilson's text, Malkovich has shown some up-front ingenuity: spotlighting or freeze-framing a conversation, orchestrating...