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So what a drag to discover their talents wasted on this mannered, pretentious lark.

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By promoting those values, the movie comes across as mannered, if not preachy.

Matt Dillon, a fine, intense actor is totally miscast here and is stiff and mannered.

I try to revisit the main film locations in Oakworth and Oxenhope whenever I can, which help to re-establish those magical qualities that this film seems to embody so uniquely - recalling a gentler and more mannered age, with its unspoken assertions that people really do matter, that family life is not just another disposable, and that life really is worth living (though sometimes, we may doubt that).

Paul Rudnick (Jeffrey, Addams Family Values) wrote this frothy tale of a mild mannered school teacher (Kevin Kline) who is outted on the Academy Awards by a former student-turned-actor (Matt Dillon).

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