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...hire someone younger to play herself. In Now and Then, a low-budget female-bonding movie she's co-producing, Moore, MELANIE GRIFFITH, RITA WILSON and ROSIE O'DONNELL play second fiddle to the girls who portray them as 12-year-olds. And although GABY HOFFMANN (Sleepless in Seattle), THORA BIRCH (Clear and Present Danger), ASHLEIGH ASTON MOORE and CHRISTINA RICCI (Casper) are young, they know the biz. "I didn't try to act 12," says Ricci, 15. "When people try to act younger, they come off looking stupid." The film is due this fall...
...this cinematic extravaganza of another Tom Clancy novel, Jack Ryan even has the same wife (Anne Archer) and child (Thora Birch), but here instead of battling the "other" of the Irish Republican Army, he goes head-to-head with the Columbian drug cartel, and more specifically the links the illegal drug trafficking organization has to the United States government. Ryan even gets to ball out the president played by Donald Moffat. With all of these differences, it seems as if Clancy should have switched the names of the two novels, making this one "Patriot Games" and the other dealing with...
Walters and Broadbent give depth and poigniancy to these roles. Supporting them is the hilarious Thora Hird who plays Deric's mother. Slightly schezophrenic, she will call Deric and leave her end of the line unoccupied. When she finally returns to the phone, she conducts a three-way conversation between her son, herself and her cat, whom she refers to as Deric's brother. All the while she is putting sugar on the cat's food. The introduction of her character, and the moments when we see her provide much-needed relief for the weightiness of the rest...
They only menace civilization as Ryan knows it, in particular his wife (Anne Archer) and his daughter (Thora Birch). Peaceably strolling along a London street, Ryan happens on a terrorist attack on a cousin of the royal family's. In the course of foiling it, he kills one of the attackers, thereby bringing on himself and his family the relentless, psychopathic enmity of the attacker's brother Sean Miller (Sean Bean, a good, constantly smoldering source of side-stream paranoia...
Instead, the edge of the alphabet proves to be a nebulous psychological limbo whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...