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RENDITION As in "extraordinary rendition," the euphemism for the U.S. government's policy to outsource the torturing of terror suspects. Reese Witherspoon is the wife of one such unfortunate: Jake Gyllenhaal, a young CIA officer, with Meryl Streep as his brass-hard boss. It's just the sort of movie Toronto loves: important, politically relevant and studded with star power...
...same time, there was a growing vacuum in the movies that left an opening for TV. It's no coincidence that most of these new antiheroines are played by movie actresses of a certain age in a business where meaty roles go to twentysomethings or to Meryl Streep. That problem, Hunter says, is exacerbated by the decline of middle-budget, character-based films: "Now movies are made for $2 million, or they're made for more than $60 million." To Driver, the variety of roles on cable outweighs any stigma. "I'm glad to be doing TV," she says...
...film's inertness. One does not imagine him to be particularly expert in the manners, morals and habits of the American Protestant patriciate of a half-century ago. One also imagines him being slightly afraid of his high-wattage cast, incapable of molding them into an ensemble. Only Streep, appearing in a couple of scenes, hints at the sort of brisk, no-nonsense playing that might have rescued the movie...
Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Eileen Atkins, Glenn Close-Evening represents perhaps the greatest diva round-up in modern movie history. Two of them, Redgrave and Streep, have even brought their daughters, Natasha Richardson and Mamie Gummer respectively, to the party. And the film's producers have thoughtfully added that very winsome diva-in-training, Claire Danes...
...irritating that you're often mistaken for Meryl Streep? John Jasper Cortes, BANGKOK...