Sundance 2009: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere
Damon Wise in the London Times:
"Written by the team responsible for the similarly dark Bad Santa and based on a true story, I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good [Jim] Carrey [above, with Ewan McGregor] can be when he’s not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever, but this is not a loveable rubber-faced rogue. One could argue that, like The Truman Show, this is another film about a lost naif, but when it plays its final hand, I Love You Phillip Morris is really much, much stranger."
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Steven Zeitchik in The Hollywood Reporter:
"One [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 22, 2009
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Sundance 2009: US Dramatic Competition
Sundance 2009: US Dramatic Competition
Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon in The Greatest
Adam (Director-screenwriter: Max Mayer)
A strange and lyrical love story between a somewhat socially dysfunctional young man and the woman of his dreams. Cast: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison.
Amreeka (Director-screenwriter: Cherien Dabis)
When a divorced Palestinian woman and her teenage son move to rural Illinois at the outset of the Iraq war, they find their new lives replete with challenges. Cast: Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Alia Shawkat.
Big Fan (Director-screenwriter: Robert Siegel)
The world of a parking garage attendant who happens to be the New York Giants’ biggest fan is turned upside down after [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 3, 2008
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Tags: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Cary Fukunaga, Film Festivals, Humpday, John Krasinski, Lynn Shelton, Push, Sin Nombre, Sundance 2009, Sundance Film Festival, The Greatest
