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...tumbledown apartment matches the tumbledown lives of Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton) and their two children Christy and Ariel (played by real-life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger). They're penniless contemporary Irish immigrants, haunted by the recent death of a son and, before the movie is over, scared witless by Sarah's life-threatening pregnancy. Oh, and we forgot to mention, Johnny's an actor who's afraid to let his authentic emotions boil over onstage. Which means, for him, the choice is between driving a cab and destitution...
Still, In America is far from a despairing film. Which is not the same as saying it's an overtly feel-good movie. Johnny has an angry, explosive side. And his wife has a sad watchfulness about her that, in Morton's performance, embraces something more than the hard facts of her life. It is their girls who enchantingly center the film. What looks like squalor to us looks like a wonderland to them, a place to be explored and embraced. They're eager and innocent and unfrightened--especially when they reach out to "the Screaming Man" who lives downstairs...
...decadent London club scene. The rewrite, by Charles Busch (creator of off-Broadway drag spectacles like Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), eliminates this somewhat clich?d character and plunges us more directly into the club underworld, and the rise and drug-addled fall of its most famous denizen, Boy George (Euan Morton). The book is better now, but still too unfocused, with too many characters vying for stage time, among them the campy, cross-dressing narrator, Philip Sallon (Raul Esparza), the flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery (played by O?Dowd himself) and assorted other men and women in their lives. Rather than...
...fame, the show is miles beyond the other biographical musical playing down the block - The Boy From Oz, a candy-coated account of the life of pop star Peter Allen. With the exception of O?Dowd, who?s a little stiff as Bowery, the cast is superb, especially Morton, a sweet-voiced doppleganger for Boy George, and Esparza, an electric Broadway star, who touches the humanity behind the high-camp shallowness of Sallon...
According to Morton Keller, co-author of Making Harvard Modern, aides used to spend many years in Mass. Hall...