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...script by playwright and television writer Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H) focuses on the struggle between the two central characters: Johnson, played by James Garner, and Kravis, played by Jonathan Pryce, who starred in the Broadway hit musical Miss Saigon. People familiar with Wall Street will have serious problems with these two pieces of casting because Garner doesn't behave much like Johnson and Price doesn't look anything like Kravis...
This hollow script wastes the cast's talent. Michael Skoler provides a fantastically annoying rendition of the pompous, self-important head of the department, Joe Taylor. Jonathan Weinberg pulls off a creepy portrayal of the randy theater buff Philip Brown with confidence. Erin Scott and Miriam Carroll admirably fulfill the roles of faculty wife and daughter respectively. At times, John Didiuk overdoes the drunken retired professor, Orson Baldwin. But the rest of the cast refrains from the seductive temptation to overact...
Kaile Shilling gives a potentially flat Blanche a three-dimensional performance. Blanche's self-imposed change of personality at the end of the play verges on the corny, but Shilling pulls this scene off with particular vitality, going beyond the script with subtle body language. Tommy Finkelstein's strong depiction of Jack Jerome lends thoughtfulness and sincerity to a fundamentally passive member of the household. Justin Levitt's timing and tone as Eugene's all-knowing older brother Stanley make his many advice-giving sessions with Eugene particularly funny...
Brighton Beach Memoirs touches on so many fundamental aspects of growing up and family life that it is hard not to identify with the play. This production brings out the essential power and authenticity of the script. Even though you might feel a twinge of homesickness, it is worthwhile to visit the Jeromes...
...Rodriguez, this calculated hysteria is an expression of family values. "That's the way it was in my family," he says. "Kids were always running around all over the place all the time. That's what things looked like to me." But really, the movie's script and style were born of necessity. Rodriguez built the screenplay around the assets available to him for the 14- day shoot in Acuna, Mexico: a hotel, two bars, a school bus, a motorcycle and a pit bull. All became elements in the story -- plus a turtle found on the road. He laid...