Word: tolan
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Unfortunately, the screenplay (by Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan) goes downhill from there, and the stock Freudianisms-initially the objects of satire-start to take over. Worse, the film begins to take them seriously. The story of Paul's guilt over his father's murder (a murder he witnessed) contains every cliche imaginable, and could have been ripped wholesale from a Z-grade movie-of-the-week. The cheap psychology is necessary to the comedy, but it gets bogged down in its own lack of depth. Paul's cathartic moments feel as if they were intended to be touching...
Olive Talley, reporter for the Dallas Morning News; Terry Tang, columnist for the Seattle Times; Andrew Tolan, executive producer with Desert West Research and Information; and Matthew Zencey, assistant editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News were also among those selected...