Word: slapstick
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...Iraqis. Two Iranian fathers beat their daughters, one because she didn't tell him she was taking pre-med courses, the other because she chatted with a shepherd. Both women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Sometimes all the oppressed can do is laugh. In the initially slapstick, then tragic Iranian film Songs of My Mother's Homeland, Kurds pour across the Iran border from Iraq. It's chaos for all concerned - except a peddler whose business is booming. "They bring disease but they also bring money," he says. "God bless Saddam!" The Tajikistan Angel on the Right...
...hardly as broad as his earlier movies. And that was a risk for Neo: his previous film That One No Enough bombed at the box office, earning only $650,000, and he was nervous about taking on a film with a semi-serious theme. "Deciding not to go with slapstick definitely cost Jack some sleepless nights," says I Not Stupid executive producer Daniel Yun. But Neo feels it was a necessary move: getting gags in drag was good to him, but it was time to move on. "I realized my audience is lower-class people," he says, "but there...
...laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above, has a bittersweet charm (and, yes, she can sing), but it's lost amid wacky-neighbor jokes and slapstick. Faith, from Sex and the City scribe Jenny Bicks, wears its cable pedigree too obviously. Faith (Sarah Paulson, in red) dumps her fiance--a man so clearly wrong for her she must have fallen for him under hypnosis--and rejoins single life with the support of three pals: the slutty...
...acting that lifts this modest material. Jeon, in her third film, makes her discordant ? and physical comedy make the mutual attraction credible and funny. Like many Korean movies, the actors flit effortlessly from unabashed slapstick to unconsolable morbidity...
...opponents, the press and anyone else who would listen, he connected things as seemingly opposite as Davy Crockett's braggadocio and the aggressive posturing of the black streets and locker rooms where he grew up. His startling wit was as exhilarating as those flying pies in American slapstick movies...