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...course carefully or risk going hat in hand to Washington for a taxpayer-backed bailout. He's already unpopular for leading the charge on Congress to grant a $15 billion aid package for the industry the first week after the attacks. "I ain't running for election here, pal," he says. "If we had waited another week to publicly acknowledge where we were, we'd still be arguing about it, and a bunch of us would be bankrupt...
...rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also burst into comic atonalities: the rich man who has a security alarm on his refrigerator (it's where he keeps his money), the shepherd on a cell-phone call to a pal in St. Petersburg. Life is sad; life is odd; life goes...
...cops are on loan from Los Angeles, sent to tiny Nightmute, Alaska, to help an old pal, the police chief, solve the crime. They are, though, carrying some extra psychological baggage. Will is a great cop but has planted evidence to make his case against a child molester. Hap knows what happened and is going to talk to internal affairs, thus destroying a legendary career. So Will has a motive to kill him. And--this is the best part--his judgment is clouded by sleep deprivation. It is summertime in this land of the midnight sun, and the perpetual daylight...
...scam. Pretending to be a single dad (which, naturally, entails having a pretend child), he joins S.P.A.T. (Single Parents, Alone Together) and gets less and more than he bargained for. There's only one attractive woman to hit on, but she introduces him, via a picnic, to her best pal's son Marcus (a marvelously uncute Nicholas Hoult). He's bullied at school, and his mom (Toni Collette) is a mess, clinging to an outmoded hippie lifestyle and suicidally inclined. The kid sees in detached and manipulative Will a surrogate father whose isolation matches his own. Maybe together they...
...West Coast, from parent to parent, school to school. His mother encouraged her angry, rebellious son to study acting, and he soon began appearing in one-line parts on sitcoms. After ninth grade, he dropped out of school to become an actor and made his feature debut alongside his pal Leonardo DiCaprio in 1993's This Boy's Life...