Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its bay windows and wood-paneling, Winthrop's JCR serves as the ideal location for the play's prep school setting. Director Heather Cross certainly makes the most of the intimate space and of the intriguing script. The strong performances and provocative themes make Another Country more than just another night...
Somehow, the G&S Society rises above Patience's mediocre script and unmemorable score and pulls off a droll and visually delightful evening. You'll just need a little patience to get to the good part, which--fortunately--is most...
...seems obvious that Momma is DeVito's directing debut. The movie starts off at a breakneck pace that it just barely manages to maintain. But just when you think that DeVito is running out of energy, he comes up with even a sharper sight gag, or Stu Silver's script comes up with another great line...
That quality crackles through Close's eerily authentic portrayal of the lovelorn Alex Forrest and her descent into psychosis -- a progression about which Close knew much more than was in the script. Enlisting the help of three psychoanalysts, including her own, she constructed a detailed and clinically consistent history for Alex that helped her understand and project the character's pain and rage. She decided that someone like Alex probably was sexually abused by her father, despised by her mother and rejected by most of the men she had cared for. Her most recent affair was with a married...
...fills the screen with a funny yet carefully modulated portrait. Watch him try to con a tourist couple by rattling off a list of bogus screenwriting credits, casually mispronouncing Ninotchka. Or, slumped on a couch, lamenting to a friend (Dennis Franz) that he has come up empty on a script the studio needs that afternoon: "Put a fork in me, Lou, I'm done." Cut and print...