Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, the ER-2 flew through the exhaust of the Concorde off Christchurch, New Zealand at an altitude of 53,000 feet. Anderson's group is currently analyzing the data...
...should know -- actually, for complete, suspenseful enjoyment of the film, you very much should not know, but the word is out, so we're obliged to tell you -- that Heavenly Creatures is based on a notorious murder case. In 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were convicted of bludgeoning Pauline's mother Honora to death. The girls were "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" until 1959, when Juliet left New Zealand and Pauline went into hiding. It was recently revealed that Juliet became a best-selling mystery novelist who lives in Scotland and writes under...
Pauline (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet (Kate Winslet) are children of two different cultures. Juliet's father is an English canon, and the girl is blond, worldly, brash; she was hospitalized for lung disease, and has been brought to New Zealand for the climate. Pauline, whose father manages a fish store, is dark and broody; she has leg scars from the ravages of osteomyelitis. Juliet sees their wounds as badges of spiritual aristocracy: "All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic...
...insight. Other than Munro's considerable talent, the only constants in these stories are remorseless time and blind fate. This does not mean that Munro can't have a little fun. The Jack Randa Hotel is high comedy in which a woman secretly follows her runaway husband to New Zealand, where she intercepts his letters to a woman he does not know is dead. The abandoned wife then has her small revenge by forging snotty but elegantly written responses...
Though his New Zealand accent wobbles a bit at times, Harvey Keitel is, as usual, excellent. He makes a potentially unlikable and thorny man human and sympathetic. Sam Neill, who originally wanted to play the part of Baines, is particularly fine in the role of Stewart, a good man who loses his head because of jealousy and passion. Here Neill has a role meatier than that of the paleontologist he played in "Jurassic Park." He lives up to the possibilities of the role...