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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophie Thompson has a funny turn as Miss Bates; she has had some Austen-to-screen experience, not surprisingly, in the well-made "Persuasion." Although appearing a little young for his role as Emma's clearly older friend, Mr. Knightley, Jeremy Northam nonetheless plays the clever fellow suavely and confidently. Juliet Stevenson and Ewan McGregor (he of the hyped tripe "Trainspotting") play the unrefined Mrs. Elton and the top-hatted Frank Churchill, respectively, as competently as McGrath's creation allows...
...supplier of programming so that it wouldn't be squeezed out by rivals like Fox and Time Warner, which owned cable systems or other outlets for their own movies. Once Disney stepped on the gas, some of its rivals followed suit. Soon a glut of pictures was fighting for screen space. The result: opening-weekend carnage...
...instant that seems terribly long), until at last the crowd's comprehension comes to a scurrying critical mass, and then--the surge just short of panic (young mother and father each crouching-hurrying to push a child's stroller away from the violent whatever-it-was); and, crisscrossing the screen, center to right, a young man with an inappropriate smile and turned-around baseball cap, his smile expressing, perhaps, a kind of macho embarrassment...
Movie theatres, like the other ubiquitous forms of summer entertainment, have provided vacationers this year with a comfortable, familiar fare of spectacle and romance. Hollywood has gotten into a tizzy over why its most recent batch of big-screen money-makers aren't ringing up receipts like in the past. On the airwaves, the TV screens and the big screen, there's a certain palatable contempt for fare which has become over-produced...
Length might be the film's only major flaw (as, ironically, with the book) since most else is constructed in a standard, unobjectionable way. In fact, as far as remarkable courtroom dramas go, this one ranks probably more favorably on the page than on screen, when one considers the possibilities. "A Time to Kill" offers a steady diet of unchallenging drama for those bloated on other summer fare...