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...Nicholson plays an obsessive-compulsive curmudgeon named Melvin Udall, whose isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter who lives in the apartment next door and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress who serves him lunch every day. The film's genuinely funny, moving script will make the audience feel as if it's earned a pleasant afterglow (and perhaps a Kleenex or two). --Erwin R. Rosinberg...
...African diaspora, one set in 17th century Africa, the other in contemporary Liberia. For now, he's delighted with the Academy Award fuss about The Sweet Hereafter (in which he appears briefly as a local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work to do. He'll quit teaching after this semester and move with his wife to their house in Keene, N.Y., not far from John Brown's grave. "You can start...
...protagonist, Ally, as she attempts to maintain a professional demeanor at the law firm founded by her money-hungry HLS colleague, Fish, and where her long-time, recently married ex-boyfriend--who left her for Michigan Law (after awhile, we cease questioning this point)--also works. The script is hilarious, including countless witty repartees. Most importantly, the show employs the creative device of acting out Ally's inner thoughts to great comic effect...
There is no mention of Widener in the in the script and no rare-book collector in the dining room on board. Nevertheless, when at the beginning of the film the rusty safe is eagerly opened only to reveal a pile of soaked papers, I half-expected to see what was left of Widener's first edition of Bacon's Essays, the volume he is said to have returned to his cabin to fetch before the ship went under...
Damon and Ben Affleck, who not only star in the film but wrote the script, grew up in Cambridge, and Damon attended Harvard before dropping out to pursue his Hollywood career. The plot involves a mathematical prodigy from Southie working as a janitor at MIT, that school two T stops from Harvard. I walked into the Kendall Square Theater prepared to criticize or applaud the movie's school and our cities. The audience was a tough crowd; the seat were filled with MIT professors and students and a smattering of Harvard folk, all anxious to see how their academic worlds...