Word: marked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Unfortunately, Sarles' shot, like Harvard's season, was just off the mark and the drive deflected off the post wide...
Adapted from Mark Childress' 1993 critically-acclaimed novel of the same name, Crazy in Alabama is at times brilliantly poignant in its portrayal of the fight for civil rights and at other times utterly inane when it comes to any scene that involves its main character, Lucille (Melanie Griffith). Its paradoxical blend of intense drama and absurd comedy accomplishes the daunting task of uniting two seemingly disparate storylines by a common cause: the fight for freedom, whether from an entire society or a controlling spouse. Crazy in Alabama juxtaposes the fallout of two murders in a small Alabama town...
...brain. The camera-eye gimmick goes on just long enough that we don't think that we'll really get to see John Malkovich himself, until all of a sudden he enters as another insane player in this mad roundelay. He all but overwhelms the movie with the question mark of his celebrity and the eerie charisma in his way of speaking. So fierce in Dangerous Liaisons, so intense in In the Line of Fire, and so bold on stage, he has his share of glory and groupies (which should by all rights increase manifold after this movie's release...
...incapable. His characters, unlike Mamet's tough-talkers, are willing to show their own vulnerability. They are desperate to do so in some cases. And this is where Kellerman's production shines. Kellerman has an eye for portraying human frailty, for capturing the looks and muffled breaths that mark us at our weakest moments. What is most amazing is that he can make these looks and breaths seem as powerful in the 500 seat mainstage theater as they did in the infinitely smaller Ex. In an auditorium that was large enough to enclose a battle between two armies in last...
...almost two years later. Though she no longer takes the parenting class, she comes in every afternoon to work at the day care as an intern and see her sons. "I love the Day Care. They help me with everything, real-life things that you need to know. When Mark [my first son] was born, I was the baddest...