Word: sarandon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students and other Cambridge residents can see Sarandon on February 12, at 2 p.m. as she leads a parade through Harvard Square beginning at the Inn at Harvard...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced Monday it that it plans to honor Harrison Ford and Susan Sarandon as its man and woman of the year...
...that there is no more tendentious topic available to a filmmaker, Robbins' restraint, his determination to explore the moral and psychological nuances of the relationship that develops between Matthew Poncelet (Sean Penn), a man condemned to death for his participation in a heinous crime, and Sister Helen Prejean (Susan Sarandon), who becomes his spiritual counselor in his final months, is exemplary...
...surprising, since Robbins and Sarandon, a real-life couple, are not known for their shyness in expressing outraged opinions on controversial subjects. Here, however, working from a free adaptation of an autobiographical book by Sister Prejean, they have chosen to pursue a matter too subtle for sloganeering: the faint possibility that evil and goodness can find a way of speaking to one another, the dim hope that the former can be in some sense redeemed, the latter in some sense educated...
...measure of this movie's integrity that it offers no reprieve more melodramatically satisfying than this. It is a measure of its complexity--and of the forces Penn and Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion. How hard it is to achieve even modest states of grace in this world. How patiently we must work to achieve them. How easy, absent a Sister Helen, it is to miss them entirely...