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...authority--Osment, 12, who has gone from seeing dead people in The Sixth Sense to playing Trevor, a junior high student who helps people live. "It's a very cool story," Osment says. "Trevor's life is pretty bad. He lives in a rough section of Las Vegas. His mom drinks. His life stinks. He meets a teacher, Eugene. Most teachers just say, 'Class, open your books.' This one, he opens his heart. Eugene has this project--to change the world--that spurs Trevor. And Trevor comes up with the idea of paying it forward. Do something for three people...
After Osment signed on to the project, the Oscar winners piled on. Spacey (American Beauty) pulled in Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets). Hunt is Arlene, Trevor's emotionally bruised mom; Spacey is Eugene, the inspired teacher whose psyche is as scarred as his face. "It's an incredible love story between two scarred people," says Spacey. "These two lost people find each other and fall in love, with Arlene's son helping them along, in the cutest way possible. Sometimes you read scripts and there's a soppy love story, or an uplifting movie-of-the-week feeling...
...Joan Crawford syndrome: messed up, but as curable, psychologically speaking, as the scarred stars of ancient weepies always were. Like them, he just needs to be loved. And Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt) is the girl to do it. She, naturally, has her own problems. She's a single mom, a waitress working extra shifts at a topless bar while she struggles with alcoholism; she hides her bottle in a chandelier, just as Ray Milland did in The Lost Weekend. But there's good stuff...
...Meanwhile, down in the valley, the newly widowed Lusa Maluf Landowski - "My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland" - struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over...
...Harry locked his mother in the closet." The first line of Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, vigorously transposed to film by the venturesome director of [Pi], gets to the essence of two warring addicts: mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), the Blanche DuBois of Brighton Beach, and her son (Jared Leto). Mom swears by amphetamines and TV hucksters; Harry loves heroin and his desperate girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). Using the bravery of his actors, and every trick in a smart cineast's book, Aronofsky takes the viewer on a jolting trip through the theme park called Hell. It's a demanding film...