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Richard Harris must have been extremely hard up for roles to have accepted this junk.
Alan Rickman is good as Tybalt, in the first of his "yuk" roles that would make him famous.
This had a great cast with big-name stars like Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Henry Hull and Brian Donlevey and a bunch more lesser-but-known names with shorter roles.
Jennifer Jason Lee is an exceptional actress and Ben Chaplin good enough to play the lead roles.
The story is told through the eyes of the eldest son in each of three generations; Ralph Fiennes plays these three roles.
Kilmer just goes through the motions as John Holmes and Kudrow and Kate Bosworth are both hopefully miscast in the other two lead roles; as Holmes's wife and underage girlfriend, respectively.
The rest of the cast has such small roles that it's impossible to get any dimensions from them.
When viewing it, I was reminded of the classic cartoon showing a Hollywood starlet; in urgent need of another role but afraid of becoming typecast for 'B' movie or soft porn roles; who says at her casting session "Well of course I do not normally do roles requiring nudity, but if it is artistically necessary for the film...............".
This recollection brought up a very naughty image of a similar cartoon showing Pia at such a session saying "Well of course I do not normally take any roles requiring actual acting, but if it will really give me sufficient exposure to enhance my status as a sex symbol..................".
He dyes his hair blonde and starts acting like a L.A. surfer dude in the naive hope this will get him acting roles.
In a nutshell, no one is convincing enough to play their roles here.
Maria Bello doesn't seem to care what people think of her choices in movie roles.
Pity, because he actually is quite a versatile actor but at the end of the day Martin Shaw chose his roles more carefully and has a career that's still successful.
Inevitably, men in his position get offered film roles that exist solely to capitalize on that.
And won the hearts of America with his roles in the powerful film, "Midway," "The Karate Kid," and a host of others.
I agree with other users comments in that the two main roles were well acted, that being the guy that played Gary Gillmore and Giovanni's role.
At 57 he was clearly far too old for these romantic roles, although it doesn't matter so much here because Gail Russell looks so much older than her 31 years and she is so ugly due to her chronic alcoholism and chain smoking.
And what was with that absurd dance, with everybody playing their stereotyped roles?
The acting is horrible from the leads to the supporting roles.
What were Julie Christie and Kate Capshaw thinking to allow their roles to be cardboard cut-outs.
JoBeth Williams has another one of her thankless roles, but manages to bring her innate, down-home class to the proverbial girlfriend character.
After what I thought was a masterful performance of two roles in Man From Snowy River, WHY was Kirk Douglas replaced by Brian Dennehy in the sequel?
The banner says it all, this is one really bad movie, which is sad because I normally like Sheffer, and I have been impressed with Andrea Roth in other roles.
As one reviewer said of a certain Katherine Hepburn performance, her range goes from A to B. Ms Zedora manages to get to G. The rest of the cast is solid (and wasted in their respective roles).
And Dolph always lends some cheesy appeal to his roles.
I was never giving it 110% concentration & consequently as simple as the plot appeared I couldn't say for certain exactly who was doing what amongst the American FBI characters & what their roles were.
Jason Biggs and Lindsey Sloane were actually better but they had only supporting roles.
He was uncredited but his list of roles here (IMDB) does give him credit.
Fibber McGee and Molly take a trip to Washington, where they see the senate in action (or inaction, if you prefer), have a spat with their Senator (Eugene Palette in one of the worst roles of his career), get acquainted with a gaggle of annoying stereotypical refugee children, and meet a man on a train reading a book by Henry Wallace.
To see a person with this low level of talent involved in paying roles, does beg the question...... "Who does she know"?
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