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Sigourney Weaver...
Sigourney Weaver's powerful performance provides the viewer with real insight into the nature of crises. And thus, the film's center lies not in societal issues, but within the tormented soul of one woman. Grade...
...World, the new release from writer and director Scott Elliott, explores the intricacies of all these questions. Alice, the lead character played by Sigourney Weaver, is a well-standing member of her community. A string of crises, however, push her to the edge, testing her strength and challenging her preconceptions...
...which she portrays Teena Brandon, a sexually confused Nebraska woman who was raped and murdered for posing as a man--Swank won Best Actress honors from critics in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Toronto. Her Golden Globe competitors are Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore--and she's a near cinch for an Oscar nomination. Not bad for a 25-year-old whose flashiest roles before now were as Ralph Macchio's replacement in The Next Karate Kid and half a season on Beverly Hills...
...queries. Turns out a few of the dweebs are actual aliens, who believe the show's actors are just the astral heroes needed to rebuff an attack on their planet. There's a bit of humor in the spectacle of Tim Allen as a Shatnerized action figure and Sigourney Weaver as a blond bimbette, but the premise--familiar from the 1986 comedy !3 Amigos!--needs more ingenuity to enliven it than anyone here could muster. In this space epic, no one will hear you laugh...