Word: film
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...lost his freedom--twice. But since his release from prison last August, Downey seemed to be turning his life around. He was in the middle of a ratings-boosting guest run as Calista Flockhart's romantic interest on Ally McBeal. He was set to star in a film with Julia Roberts and Billy Crystal and to take a turn onstage in Mel Gibson's production of Hamlet. He had proclaimed in one interview after another that he was ready to put drugs behind...
...film It's A Wonderful Life overtaken every other Christmas fable--including A Christmas Carol, Charlie Brown and the Grinch (with or without Jim Carrey)--as the story of the season...
...star also acquits himself quite nicely in the film, which is notable not because it co-stars Helen Hunt (what doesn't co-star Helen Hunt these days?), but because it's Gibson's first foray into romantic comedy. "They haven't naturally come my way," he says when asked why he hasn't worked in this genre before. "I wouldn't be the first guy to choose for something like this." Actually, he was at the top of the wish lists of director Nancy Meyers and Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing. Meyers (who penned the 1991 Father of the Bride...
...Russell Crowe, is coming out in the wake of the two stars' affair and the fracturing of Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid. The all-American blond is now a Jezebel, her cuddlings with Crowe sprayed across gossip-mag covers and on tabloid-tale TV shows. The eventual film looked destined to be remembered as Exhibit A in the trial of adulterous love...
Under the commando-efficient direction of Taylor Hackford (The Devil's Advocate), the film intelligently deploys familiar thriller elements: chases; shoot-outs; high-level duplicity; terse, sassy dialogue; and a cast having a high time playing preening villains and wily good guys. Even Ryan, with too much attitude and nonstop nutating, finally gets into the film's burly spirit. All this is enough to stoke the action engine, but the movie has a fuller agenda--to give its characters flesh and a meaningful melancholy...