Word: zaillian
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...world. And Josh in the other one." The film ensures that he is now a third person in a new world: the semifictional, wholly romantic hero of a movie docudrama. He is other people's idea of Josh: a child again, as imagined by writer-director Steve Zaillian and played, with a nice, otherworldly seriousness, by chess whiz Max Pomeranc, 8. Yet for Josh's mother, who learned chess from her small son and now teaches it at two schools, the dislocation is familiar. "As a work of art," says Bonnie Waitzkin, "this story has been our reality for nine...
WRITER: STEVEN ZAILLIAN...
WRITERS: DONALD STEWART, W. PETER ILIFF AND STEVEN ZAILLIAN...
Count on Awakenings, written by Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like...