Word: nicked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Todd Field, its first-time feature director, seems never to have looked at, let alone made, a music video. This is a patient movie, carefully studying what happens to an unexciting middle-class couple, Matt and Ruth Fowler (Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek), when their good, gifted son Frank (Nick Stahl) is carelessly killed in a small Maine town...
...movie’s strongest moment occurs when Murphy and Styron exact revenge upon Nick, a man Murphy claims previously raped her friend. Styron’s relatively friendless life in her quest to become CEO is a motif that has been used before, but is artfully drawn out in this movie. These two issues juxtaposed together provide influential insight into modern womanhood. However, this significance is muddled under lesbian innuendo that takes the viewer’s mind off of the topic, bringing the movie from the level of extremely impressive to extremely unfulfilling. If Stettner can learn...
Channing, Stiles and Fred Weller as Nick, a headhunter who Styron calls when she fears needing a new job, all enhance the movie with their acting. Channing draws the viewer in with a vivid performance that covers all emotions and states of mind and showcases her talent much more effectively than did her other recent movies, Where the Heart Is and Practical Magic. Stiles looks a little too young to play a college graduate (perhaps her repertoire of high-school roles plays a factor here) but manages to be both acerbic and provocative at the same time...
...Nick predicts that Survivor is actually in its last leg and that “Survivor IV” will be the final chapter in the series. “Too many are being made,” he says. “A lot of them are good but nobody watches them, like ‘The Amazing Race’ on CBS, which was actually good to watch. People just aren’t watching it as much anymore...
...people watched Nick, and he expects that his fifteen minutes of fame will help him get a job as an army lawyer. “At least it gives us something to talk about in the interview...