Word: smith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replaced, tragically, by Titanic, and bootleg copies have been circulating though North America for years.) The big screen debut in America has been completely unlike that of any other foreign animated film; touting the voices of stars like Gilian Anderson, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Billy Bob Thornton, Princess Mononoke is destined to be the break-though film for Japanimation in America...
...actors to play "upper classes" is fairly common in American film but is incredibly distracting when the characters are not supposed to be American or British. Coincidental or not, Driver's accent is a somewhat jarring reminder that Princess Mononoke has been altered for American audiences. Similarly, Jada Pinkett-Smith's distinctive voice sounds a little strange emerging from a Japanese prostitute turned iron-worker, and Billy Bob Thornton, as an oddly violent monk is almost too bizarre for belief...
...Jamie Smith...
...create an science fair-winning set of marigolds which had been exposed to certain types of radiation, is somewhat implausible, the scenes of the play focus not on such plot-driving points, but on the interactions between Tillie's bitter, estranged mother (Stotland), Tillie and her sister Ruth (Jamie Smith...
...shining exception to this is the work of Smith as Ruth, who intelligently centers her performance on the identity of her character and delivers her lines as the character. Stotland is not so fortunate--she rarely transcends a simple line-reading and performs with little emotional variation, save a certain modulation of volume with which she attempts to point out to the audience which lines are important...