Word: tellyã
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Such a failure occurred despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Although Moore can be shrill and fragile in some films, her Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Gary Sinise, as Telly??s therapist, is appropriately authoritarian, with a dose of compassion and an otherworldly magnetism, while her husband, ER’s Anthony Edwards, with the benefit of limited screen time, appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. Dominic West plays Ash Correll, the father of another “forgotten” child and Telly??s partner in revealing...
...acting may be only good and not outstanding, but the film is flawed not because of the actors but due to the product they’ve been asked to deliver. To take just one example, Ash is not only Lauren’s father and Telly??s companion but also, serendipitously, a former New York Ranger, complete with the physical prowess and lightning reflexes necessary to foil the plots of men in black and extraterrestrial beings alike...
...best aspects of the film are all there in that wickedly misleading trailer: the disconnect between Telly??s memory and that of those around her and the viscerality of our shock as she reveals the history beneath the façade in Correll’s daughter’s room, demonstrating the Oz-like nature of the world they inhabit. As it progresses, however, these ideas and feelings recede into the background, pushed out by car chases, government conspiracies, and, of all things, aliens...
...Rover,” a seat playing clarinet in the wind ensemble and a spot on the Harvard Veritones. And what’s in store for the future of this British boy wonder? He hopes to do Broadway after graduation, and possibly some “telly?? acting. And if nothing else, he can always take out that recorder, warm up those nostrils, and play for cash in Harvard Square...
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