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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Harvard Crimson: You don't shy away from controversy, but this film is eliciting even more impassioned reactions than most of your films. Is there a specific incident that prompted you to write the screenplay...
...History is filled with white people who have tried to become blacker. Take Elvis Presley... even today, groups like N'Sync and the Backstreet Boys. Culture is for everybody, but there is a difference between appreciating a culture and appropriating a culture...
...Even more significantly, Lenny learns that everyone, even people he thought were perfect such as Hedy and Lenny's father, have inescapable flaws; his growth is marked by his realization that he can love those people anyway...
...strength of the movie lies instead in its emotional component, in the complexities brought forth by the characters and their relationships. This makes Just Looking a heart-warming and worthwhile, even if not memorable, film...
...were looking at Jewish and Italian kids, anybody that had an ethnic look. But we couldn't find a kid that could act or was funny. Ryan is from Oklahoma and is not a Jew. We got avideotape from him early in the process and we didn't even open it. But then we had five days left and we didn't have a Lenny. So almost at the choke we said open the tape from Oklahoma. We quickly flew him out. He was brilliant, but he wasn't the character. So we crossed our fingers and threw...