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...film is set in eighteenth century Scotland, a time, a rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...
Hollomon is a talented actress whom one would suspect of being Winona Ryder and Dave Pirner's love child if she weren't in the same age group. Her effortless portrayal of a 17-year-old outsider is what makes this movie worth seeing. Thought the script lapses into predictability sometimes, a few experimental angles don't quite make the grade and the other actors' believability fades in and out, Laurel is always endearing and easy to relate...
...Once a script was chosen, Observatory Theater began to approach students to expand its membership...
Edgar Sr. had his own expensive fling in movies; he bought part of MGM in 1967 only to sell it two years later at a loss of about $10 million. By that time, his son was reading scripts for producer David Puttnam. Edgar Jr. found a script he loved, and in 1972, at Puttnam's goading, produced the movie, a flop called The Blockhouse. He was 17. With a show-biz dilettante's drive, he invested in Broadway plays, wrote pop songs, married a singer-actress and produced a few other films-notably a Jack Nicholson melodrama, The Border, released...
...cast members auditioned afterintersession and spent much of their time writingthe script and then rehearsing it, according toEric P. Christoffersn...