Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, yes, this is a comedy about adultery and its aftershocks. ButTIME's Richard Schickelsays it's much more than that. The funny, good-natured script, by Callie Khouri ("Thelma and Louise"), is another empowerment play, but deeper and more intricately subversive in its assault on American patriarchy. Director Lasse...
All is not well, however, since Benny must fight for her new-found love and sexual awakening against a trio of obstacles--her conservative parents, the Catholic Church, and Sean Walsh (Alan Cumming), the creepy suitor who is weaselling his way into her parents' affections. Sean is a lovable stereotype...
Though Nicky's affair with Wendy provides a central plot line for the film, the shenanigans of Nicky's crew are more interesting and unpredictable. Ralph (Nicholas Turturro) is the most engaging of the guys who get together to play poker, get drunk and engage in the kind of good...
The acting, however, could hardly be improved upon. Especially fine are the performances of Jerome Preston Bates as Floyd, who makes us care about the tortured soul that lies beneath a veneer of strut and swagger; Viola Davis, an eloquent and unaffected Vera; and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who plays the...
Fluent in eight languages, the Pope chooses his idiom to suit his dinner companions. Says a Vatican aide: "He listens, talks directly, asks questions, puts you at ease. After five minutes you forget you are talking to the Pope." For visiting bishops with problems to share, he can turn on...