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Cineplexes will turn into pre-med lecture halls for the study of leukemia (Marvin's Room, with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) and mental illness (Shine, the acclaimed Australian film about pianist David Helfgott). There also will be political seminars on intolerance (The Crucible, with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the First Amendment as it applies to porn peddlers (The People vs. Larry Flynt, with Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love...
...Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. They talk tough, engage in petty crime and swim in the river like the Dead End Kids of yore. They play basketball under the tutelage of a kindly priest, just like the gang in Angels with Dirty Faces, only with Robert De Niro playing the Pat O'Brien part...
...time when some of cinema's most respected actors--Robert De Niro, Al Pacino--have developed an unfortunate taste for self-parody, Neeson has made his mark in Hollywood as a paragon of restrained intensity. In Ethan Frome, the 1993 movie version of Edith Wharton's novel, Neeson manages to convey a lifetime of thwarted longing in one gaze. In a Schindler scene that has Neeson's debonair businessman surveying the destruction of the Cracow ghetto, we see in the actor's perplexed expression something quite remarkable: a man's humanity slowly surfacing...
...figure: today, when elocution is a nearly lost art and Broadway has faded into the Great White Where?, lots of big-time stars are doing theater. Serious stuff, like Shakespeare and Beckett. Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Keanu Reeves have all paid obeisance to the old muse. Like doing an arty low-budget film, a stab at the classics can be a rite of purification after all those grimy blockbusters...
...then Gil commits a violent crime (he thinks it will help Bobby shake a batting slump) and abducts the ballplayer's son (he also thinks the man needs a lesson in humility). Since these plot twists exceed any motivations offered, De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well-practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about...