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Fortunately, some fine acting by Sean Penn prevents the show from being a complete waste. Penn's portrayal of Hopper is both convincing and well-controlled. Nick Cage also manages to occasionally shine, though his character is slightly less developed than Penn's. Elizabeth McGovern is notably less impressive, having altered her earlier role in the Academy Award-winning Ordinary People only slightly to play the part of Caddie...
...necessary to shine soldiers' boots with taxpayers' money...
...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
...boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through...
...paradoxically both aids and hinders the overall performance. Because each actor has the opportunity to taken on the role of the "nobly born" dying victim, the cast creates an appropriately communal feeling. Yet because the roles are so amorphous and indistinguishable, it is difficult for any one actor to shine...