Word: reservior
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...nuanced performance as the film's emotional center, and Joan Allen as his (Pleasantville) mother: independently and together, they account for nearly all of the movie's most poignant moments. The fact that Allen plays the same role she always does, i.e., the repressed wife/mother figure with a hidden reservior of intense feeling, would be more annoying if she didn't do it so superbly, exactly right. Next to her, William Macy is merely adequate, though often quite funny, as the impotent and increasingly bewildered father figure; a fine actor, he risks being typecast as a comic butt or supporting...
...that I'm a fan of cult clasics. I often find them strange and boring. But "Reservior Dogs," despite one strange scene and one boring scene, is undeniably a fine film...
...Reservior Dogs...
Razor-sharp, gritty, and warped: that's "Reservior Dogs." Tarantino's characters are awful, slimy,, ignorant guys who throw around words like "nigger," and "bitch" at the drop of a hat, and who function according to skewed, self-dictated systems of morality. We don't liek them. Any of them. But they are real, and complex, and Tarantino manages to keep us hooked...
...present, a drainage pipe transfers materials from three state highway routes, 128, 2, and 2A, directly into the Hobbs Brook (Cambridge) Reservior, said Flaherty's assistant...