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This story is being promoted as "true," although the only fully documented fact in Richard Hatem's script is the disaster--a collapsing bridge--that brings the movie to its climax. Actually it plays more like a good X-Files episode--full of plausible details placed in the service of paranormal (not to say paranoid) whoppers. But director Pellington's touch is light and flickering, and his actors are solid and persuasive. If you let yourself go with The Mothman Prophecies, it is--in its lumpen, serious way--sort...
...been going through the minds of Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson when they wrote I Am Sam, an improbable story of an autistic man who fights a custody battle for his daughter. Nelson, who is also the film’s director and co-producer, flopped with her last script (the universally despised The Story of Us), and seems so eager to atone for that disaster that she pulls out all the stops for I Am Sam. The first-time director cast the versatile Sean Penn as the lead, the sassy Michelle Pfeiffer as his lawyer and an adorable little...
...reportedly observed autistics for 90 days in preparation for this role. Penn convincingly portrays Dawson as he fouls up the coffee at his job at Starbucks, falls down on the floor and gives hugs to people indiscriminately. Still, it is unfortunate that so much of the script is preoccupied with this stereotypical behavior. In the third act of the film Dawson is finally given some depth and, for his part, Penn convincingly injects pathos into his character...
...redemption of a racist--though some may ask how many prejudicial scruples a man would have to overcome to persuade himself to have sex with Halle Berry. The actress, who had previously flashed her bosom in Swordfish, once had scruples of her own about going buffo. "If a movie script had nudity in it," she says, "I wouldn't even finish reading it. But I've become a woman who's a bit more secure and willing to free herself of her inhibitions for her art." Thus the startling, dramatically expressive love scene in Monster's Ball...
...writing, not big directorial names or fancy co-stars, that grabs LaPaglia's attention. He leapt for Lantana because of Andrew Bovell's script. Says LaPaglia: "A lot of writers...can write a lead guy, but they can't complete the satellite world around the main character. Andrew totally knows how to do that." So does Arthur Miller, and LaPaglia is close to putting together a film version of Bridge and dreams of doing Miller's After the Fall onstage. "It's never been very well received, but I had an idea that I think can make it work." Whatever...