Word: tara
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...Standford and most significantly co-produced by Charlize Theron (who won her Academy Award for Monster, which is solidly in the tradition of American hopelessness). In the new film she plays a boozing, pot-smoking layabout named Joleen, whose redeeming virtue is a fierce love for her daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). This, however, does not prevent her from deserting the child to run off with some anonymous dude. She dumps Tara on her brother, James (Nick Stahl), who promptly loses his job and his apartment, and decides to return to his father and the tumbledown family farm from which...
...distancethrough a flat, nondescript landscape.This overused and bland imageis representative of the film as a whole.Even heartfelt performances cannotquite compensate for a plot that teetersbetween tedium and brutality, and a tritescript that only barely leaves room forcharacter development.AnnaSophia Robb (“Bridge to Terabithia”)plays Tara, a troubled but lovable12-year-old who grapples with beingneglected by her mother. Early in thefilm, Tara’s mother, Joleen (played byCharlize Theron, “Monster”), abandonsher for reasons that are intentionally ambiguousbut nonetheless unconvincing.Tara’s uncle, played by Nick Stahl...
...make.”Unlike “Monster,” in which she playedthe protagonist, Theron was faced withthe challenge of casting the principalroles in “Sleepwalking.” Finding the rightactors was crucial to the project, particularlyfor the part of Tara, the film’s maincharacter.“I liked the material a lot, but weneeded to find the right girl because if wedidn’t, the story wouldn’t have held anyweight to it.”Theron found the right person in 14-year-old actress AnnaSophia...
...Here's the town's topography of restlessness. Annie (Kate Beckinsale) has split from her husband Glenn (Sam Rockwell) after a stormy marriage that spawned four-year-old Tara (Grace Hudson) and a judge's ruling of Glenn's spousal abuse. She works in a diner with Barb (Amy Sedaris) and is having an affair with Barb's husband Nate (Nicky Katt). Also at the diner is teenage Arthur (Michael Angarano), whose parents have split and who has had a crush on Annie since she was his baby sitter. Most of the denizens of this working-class town are searching...
...paid off.” After receiving a first-round bye, Snyder began her tournament run Friday afternoon with an easy, 9-1, 9-3, 9-2 victory over Hamilton’s Kelly Whipple. She continued her strong play on day two with victories over Tara Wadhwa and Jessica Balderston, both of Yale, 3-0 and 3-1, respectively, to land a spot in Sunday’s semifinals. After falling behind 2-0 in her semifinal match against Princeton’s Mary O’Toole Sunday, Snyder stormed back to seize control and won in five...