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...Meryl Streep, One True Thing. Poor Meryl. She's won so many times that when she does her best stuff, nobody cares. She electrified One True Thing as a mother with cancer, and she changes the movie from TV domestic drama to nuanced character study. Maybe next year (13 nominations and counting...
...Year" award was established in 1963, 12 years after the creation of its female counterpart. Past recipients of the awards include Katharine Hepburn, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Paul Newman, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford...
...days of "Size Does Matter" and "Bigger is Better," can a pure human drama still affect us? Leave it to Meryl Streep to quash all doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters...
...careers. John Dahl should return to the genre which made him famous--the sexually charged neo-noir thriller that he basically reinvented. Matt Damon should go for range and dive into a weird character--maybe even a villain. (Sacre bleu!) Gretchen Mol should have a heart-to-heart with Meryl Streep. John Malkovich should just relax. Rounders should be a transition piece for all these artists. Let's hope they move on to bigger and better things. Soman Chainani...
...days of "Size Does Matter" and "Bigger is Better" can a pure human drama still affect us? Leave it to Meryl Streep to squash all doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters...