Word: underplaying
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...stats, however imposing, underplay the importance of these films to Hollywood's bottom line. Women are so eager to make movies close to their hearts that they agree to make them on the cheap. Demi Moore, for example, is being paid a burly $12 million to star in next year's Striptease. But as a producer, she got Now and Then made for the same $12 million. Little Women, with Sarandon and Ryder, took in $50 million at the U.S. wickets but cost only $18 million...
...Fellow Betsey Wright, former chief of staff for the Clinton administration in Arkansas, said she thought the media would underplay her former boss' big victories...
Rather than give up a political career, Tarazi says he would underplay his homosexuality. "I don't want to lie about it, I don't want to hide it, but it's not something that defines me," he says...
...peaceable stationery salesman. But the film's many narrative obligations keep interrupting the consistent development of a lively comic-adventure pace and tone. John Cornell makes a diffident first-time director, unable to punch up a scene or a performance -- especially Hogan's. And Hogan is so determined to underplay his role that you sometimes have trouble hearing...
Hardly a glamorous task since many Brecht characters require players to underplay, tone emotion down and frequently act like robots, the Ex players do a good job infusing personality into their characters and playing up psychological conflicts. But, they probably also inject too much spirit into the characters, watering down themes outside the psyches of the individuals...