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...Archer as a stressed-out couple emotionally disconnected from their kids and each other, is playing at only one theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross, who wrote the screenplay for the peewee football epic Little Giants, picked this tryout location in part because he thought the conservative burg would appreciate Nino's homespun message about savoring life's simple pleasures, and in part because that's where he found a theater exec willing to give the $3 million film...
Despite working with many of the same people from Amélie, Jeunet points out several key differences between the films. Unlike Amélie, this film is a period piece, his first film on a large scale and an adaptation rather than an original screenplay...
...contrast, with scenes in and around Walter’s apartment and at his job appearing drab and gray, while scenes in the park with Robin are filled with color. The supporting cast skillfully depicts the various attitudes of outsiders toward Walter’s sickness. And though the screenplay (written by Kassell and Steven Fechter) occasionally overreaches with a few contrived lines and overwrought symbols, it seamlessly crafts the complex, raw story and invites an audience reaction as conflicted as the emotions of the characters themselves...
Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side. Dan (Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman...
This documentary follows the rise and fall of Troy Duffy, a Bostonian bartender who makes an astonishing, life-changing deal with Miramax Films. Miramax is so impressed with Troy’s screenplay, The Boondock Saints, that they offer Troy the chance to direct the film with a huge budget and create its soundtrack using music performed by his band. Sitting on top of the world, Troy manages to commit blunder after blunder, mishandling negotiations and alienating his supporters. He eventually loses his deal with Miramax and becomes a pariah in Hollywood. The movie’s biggest strength...