Word: scripting
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...plot Demi Moore plays her part with a determination and recklessness that would have done Hester Prynne proud. Gary Oldman would cut a more convincing figure as her passionate and inspirational lover, the Reverend Dimmesdale, if he weren't undercut by the melodramatic sermonizng thrust upon him by the script. And Robert Duvall steals the show as Demi's estranged pay chopathic husband, who has gone so native that the natives themselves decide they're scared...
...spirited resistance of the cinematography and acting crumbles in the face of the relentless attacks of the script, like free spirits suffocating in a puritanical society...
...from the White House became necessary when Rabin and Arafat balked over an unresolved hitch minutes before the document was due to be signed, forcing Clinton to closet himself with both leaders in his private dining room and urge them to settle their differences. But in the end the script itself, which Arafat hailed as "the peace of the brave," was enough to steal the show...
...read Henry's script and panted for the part. When Meg Ryan bowed out, Kidman rang up Van Sant and announced, "I am destined to play Suzanne." Recalls the director: "In a way, it's just something you would say. But I took it a different way, like she really was destined to play the role. When she showed up, she was very prepared and worked very hard on her own to develop the character...
...films by bad film-makers are to be expected. When a film written to Joe Eszterhas stinks, no eye. He stinks. But bad by talented young film- like the Hughes Brothers are truly disappointing. Perhaps they can regain their confidence and work on finding a script that itself to their style of The enormity of the plot of "Dead Presidents" only served to stifle and restrict their budding