Word: vinessa
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...crazy girl. Cute Jewish girl versus pill-popping ADHD club chick. Business partner’s daughter (will buy you leather gloves) versus hot neighbor (miscarriage-prone). Sex in his parents’ apartment after 90 seconds of small talk versus sex against a brick wall outdoors in November. Vinessa Shaw versus Gwyneth Paltrow. If only all of us were faced with such difficult decisions.Leonard Kraditor (a mumbling, grumbling Joaquin Phoenix, who apparently walked right off the set and onto “Late Night”) starts off as a mopey loser living at home after a breakup with...
...France, the Brooklyn-based director turns from tortured crime movies (The Yards, We Own the Night) to a story of romantic obsession: after a couple of suicide attempts, a young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with a troubled rich girl (Gwyneth Paltrow) rather than the nice girl (Vinessa Shaw) his parents want him to marry. This is one long toothache of a movie, painfully earnest, not preposterous enough to be enjoyed as camp, and a waste of some very good actors. The Paris critics called Two Lovers "sublime," which sounds even better in French. Maybe something in Gray...
...Carter (Ted Levine, “Memoirs of a Geisha”), a gun-toting red-blooded American, takes his family on a road trip to California. They are a picture-perfect example of suburban pleasantry, with two comely daughters, Lynn (Vinessa Shaw) and Brenda (Emilie de Ravin “Lost”) and a teenage son (Dan Byrd). Despite protests from his “pussy Democrat” son-in-law Doug (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men 2”), Bob pledges to drive the “scenic” desert route...
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