Word: laughingly
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Reeves hoped the dramatic group would "lighten things up." But the audience in the council chambers didn't laugh, and sound problems (the young comedians weren't speaking into microphones) brought dozens of angry calls from people trying to watch the meeting at home on public access cable television. The audience grew impatient as the comedy group exceeded the 17 minutes they were allotted...
Director and writer Sally Potter stretches the limits of the camera and the lead actress, Tilda Swinton, to make a movie enjoyable to people who like to laugh with joy as well as those who are just along for the visual ride...
...keep the audience from laughing at the whole movie, however, long closeups of Swinton's face are spliced into scenes with her punch lines. It soon comes to the point where the audience waits for Swinton's straight face so they know they can laugh along with...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theater presentation of the play has some nagging problems, but is worth seeing and guaranteed to make you laugh. Wasserstein manages to balance the different aspects of the work very well. She doesn't pull punches with her Jewish mother jokes, but she avoids the kind of vicious self hatred bordering on anti-Semitism that afflicts some Jewish comedy. She also successfully walks the tightrope between family-bashing, man-hating feminism and family-centered, woman ignoring sexism...
...compensate, she creates, as it were, sub-conflicts. Annie's fiance (Bill Pullman) is shown to be, quite literally, a drip (allergies make his nose run); the woman Sam takes up with (Barbara Garrick) has a grating laugh. The movie condescends to both of them rather unfunnily. And, anyway, they begin to seem like time fillers, something to divert us from the fact that this film really has no center. Hanks and Ryan are, as usual, charming, and so are Malinger as destiny's underage enabler, Gaby Hoffmann as his girlfriend, eagerly egging him on, and Rosie O'Donnell...