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With a cast that features Susan Sarandon ("Bull Durham," "Thelma and Louise") and Tommy Lee Jones '69 ("The Fugitive"), along with a terrific debut performance from 10-year-old Tennessee street kid Brad Renfro, it would seem that Schumacher couldn't go wrong. Nevertheless, the director's painfully close adherence to the Grisham script fails to inspire...
Happily, with the entrance of Foltrigg, Mark decides he needs an attorney to take on the feds, and Schumacher finally concedes to bring in Sarandon as the reformed-alcoholic/renegade lawyer, Reggie Love. In her strong portrayal, Sarandon turns a moderately interesting part into "The Client"'s highlight performance, occasional showing the impressive depth she captured in "Thelma and Louise." Had Schumacher fully exploited Sarandon's hard-ball verbal confrontations, "The Client" might have succeed ed as a fast-paced courtroom drama; unfortunately, Schumacher fails to commit to the dynamic court plot, preferring to interstice the Sway family drama with...
Scientists, it seems, are becoming the new villains of Western society. Once portrayed as heroes, they now appear in movies betraying Sigourney Weaver to bring home an alien for "the company" or being oblivious to Susan Sarandon's desperate search for a cure for her son. We read about them in the newspapers faking and stealing data, and we see them in front of congressional committees defending billion-dollar research budgets. We hear them in sound bites trampling our sensibilities by comparing the Big Bang or some subatomic particle...
...this stag banquet, the pickings -- or leavings -- for women were slim. They got to play wives and invalids, to judge from this year's five Oscar nominees for Best Actress. Oh, yes, Mary McDonnell in Passion Fish, Susan Sarandon in Lorenzo's Oil, Emma Thompson in Howards End, Catherine Deneuve in Indochine and Michelle Pfeiffer in Love Field all played strong, exemplary idealists. The actresses all received critical plaudits. But what is the sound of two hands clapping in a nearly empty theater, when other rooms in the multiplex are filled with crowds cheering for teenage turtles and the righteous...
...CENTER OF LORENZO'S OIL LIES A desperately sick child. But in director George Miller's tedious film, he is also, during much of the time, lost. For this true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon) focuses on their frantic efforts to find a cure for their boy's rare disease (adrenoleukodystrophy). Their search leads them into shrill conflict with an overcautious medical establishment. It also draws them into that least cinematic of environments, the library. When they are not poring over volumes, they are earnestly discussing their various findings. Both modes distance the audience...