Word: artlessness
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...together pretty well. Rimes has a natural, saucy way about her in front of the camera, and Peters does a more than creditable job of convincing the viewer she is from the Ozarks. Probably because we know it is a 14-year-old's fairy tale, the story seems artless and winning, rather than just ridiculous. The person who really makes it all work is Rebecca Schull as Rimes' grandmother. Tender, bright, steady, Schull succeeds in making you actually care whether Grandma Teeden pulls through. In a flashback she visits the Rimes character (played here by a little girl...
Bujold has the frazzled hauteur of an aging, neglected star, and Spelling is nicely glazed, studiously artless. But the film is keyed to Posey's performance: perfectly brittle, faultlessly false. As the most toxic of this family of vipers, she creeps and stings, and no one dares look away...
...Artless, yes; the poem lacked the gift of making grief palpable, as Stewart had done with such searing poignancy in Vertigo. But the feelings were just as direct, honorable, crushing. Imagine his desolation when, in 1994, Gloria died, at 75, of lung cancer. With no hand to hold, no hair to stroke, no lovely, comforting figure to share his bed, Stewart was bereft and, for all his loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix...
...contort his face into every manageable form of laughter, each more convincing than the last. His visage reminds one of a young Jonathan Winters, as does his sense of comic timing. Von Gerbig is hilarious as his foil; her eyes move into every possible direction. She is as artless as he is artful...
...very good things about Fly Away Home are the restrained naturalism of its playing; its gentle, unforced direction by Carroll Ballard; and above all its imagery, shot by cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of Amy, Tom and the birds in flight. At once comic and soaring, artful and artless, these scenes lift us from earthbound disbelief and charm our acquiescence in the sweetest of adventures...