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...Standford and most significantly co-produced by Charlize Theron (who won her Academy Award for Monster, which is solidly in the tradition of American hopelessness). In the new film she plays a boozing, pot-smoking layabout named Joleen, whose redeeming virtue is a fierce love for her daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). This, however, does not prevent her from deserting the child to run off with some anonymous dude. She dumps Tara on her brother, James (Nick Stahl), who promptly loses his job and his apartment, and decides to return to his father and the tumbledown family farm from which...
...this point the fastidious viewer may well wonder why he signed on for this ride through the heartless heartland with these dismally downtrodden human beings. To which this answer immediately occurs; It's because of AnnaSophia Robb's performance. When we meet her she's a closed-off and cynical girl. In her relatively short life she already witnessed a lifetime of human fecklessness, and we sense that she is on the edge of following her mother's downward path. Yet, stubbornly, she continues to love her. Better still, she reluctantly begins to bond with her uncle. He may have...
...maincharacter.“I liked the material a lot, but weneeded to find the right girl because if wedidn’t, the story wouldn’t have held anyweight to it.”Theron found the right person in 14-year-old actress AnnaSophia Robb. “Shewas the element that really made mecommit to the film,” Theron said.Theron became Robb’s mentor duringproduction, balancing the roles ofnurturing the young actress and pushingher to hone her craft. “I was very protectiveof her,” Theron said...
...immune to sentiment, but they make pictures with kids because, well, they hope a sack of money will fall on them. A big project (like the Harry Potter series) can earn zillions, and even the smaller ones do O.K. Because of Winn-Dixie, about a motherless girl (AnnaSophia Robb) and her pet dog, was made for an estimated $15 million and pulled in $13 million in its Presidents' Day weekend debut--and it's not even very good. Dear Frankie, a Scottish drama about a fatherless deaf boy (Jack McElhone), has been charming festival audiences and opens this week...
...year-old India “Opal” Buloni, played by newcomer AnnaSophia Robb, is a lonely girl who sports overalls and an American Girl smile. Opal is distinguished from the other townsfolk of sleepy Naomi, Florida with her odd name and piercing blue eyes, framed by dark mascara and perfectly plucked eyebrows. This artistic choice on the part of the makeup artist gives the young actress a surreal appearance to stand out in a movie lacking any standout plot or character development...