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It's also full of surprisingly funny lines (especially from the Donald Pleasance character), of the understated kind - "Do you really think anyone's going to believe you?" "Naturally.
Winkler is perfect as the understated nebbish lead, and the contrast of the low-income realities and the humor found in the script is marvelously unusual in American movies beyond "Little Shop of Horrors".
Luis Tosar gives such an understated performance that he disappears into his character.
Although meaningless liberties have been taken with this true story - what possible difference, for example, could it have made to acknowledge that Mitchell was married rather than imply bachelor status - it still grips in an understated way.
Murphy, always an appealing figure on the screen but not noted for truly great acting depth and breadth, is ideal for this understated role.
I LOVED this movie for the quiet truthfulness of the characters, the authentic pictures of the countryside and primitive way of life, and the understated humor.
The importance of the Suez Canal in World War II cannot be overstated, except in this movie where it seems grossly understated.
Eric Braeden is terrific--an understated and overlooked performance that should have made him a movie star.
This Actor is IN THE ZONE! Al Pacino makes it look eeeeaaasy, and Russell Crowe transcends his dialect struggles (he goes with a mishmash of "American" dialect, and at times I found it a little distracting), but he scores with his understated Pressure Cooker character development.
Patricia Clarkson does a beautifully understated job as the headmistress, and her quiet voice doing a lot more to scare me than a lot of yelling and overbearing attitudes of other films.
TLJ's understated tour de force - of course Daniel Day-Lewis got the 2007 Oscar for showing the world what a great actor he is (and he is, don't get me wrong).
Tia Carrere, however, is so beautiful, and so understated as the seductress - really, it's almost worth the agony just to see her in her pale blue gown.
The ending was excellent, in its own right, understated, but still able to put its point across towards its audience.
In Chabrol's film, such distinctions are so understated as to be lackluster, if not plain dull, a thematic failure that is only made the worse by characters who are lifeless and lacking in the telling character traits and hard-scrabble wisdom one expects of certain class types.
Excellent acting and input my the Aamir Khan....excellent feels understated.
Instead of going for simple emotional tugs that he did with "Crash," this film focuses on its understated performances, namely from Tommy Lee Jones, who is superb in this film.
The understated charm of Dick Loudon, as "Brains" of the Vermont former Youth Gang, the "Hooligals" getting ready to "West Side Story" with their rivals, the "Puffians.
His understated and nuanced interpretation of this complex character contributes a level of patois to the scene that is memorable long after the credits roll.
I'd only seen Payne in musicals, but here he has a real understated intensity as a World War II vet out to clear his name.
Futterman's performance is a highlight in the movie, an understated, confused role that carries the sanity in the movie.
But the dead-pan gallows humor, elegantly understated, flat and utterly unadorned, subtle and evanescent, evaporates somewhere in the middle, as breezy absurdity succumbs to a grinding Hallmark-greeting-card, art-house sermon on the Meaning of Life, to What IT Is All About.
the cast is wonderful, and the performances all the more powerful for being understated.
The great John Barrymore plays Morley's father (Louis XV) with an understated cruelty and disdain for humanity.
It's a cute story, delivered in that understated British comedy style.
I did worry that her performance was going to leave me cold, but her beautiful voice and outstanding acting ability equalled a real tearjerker of a performance, that was poignant and understated.
Compared with many war films that covered America's involvement with Vietnam, "Go Tell the Spartans' didn't set the world alight due to its very understated style and low-scale resources, but because of centering towards a steady character/situation driven story, it remained an thoughtfully harrowing and toughly grim account showing that there were no heroes, or anything to gain from this war.
Production Designer Chris Seagers makes use of understated but consistent lighting of and New Orleans streets and backgrounds just enough to give the real flavor of the Crescent City, which I have visited and experienced more than once.
All of these statements were so incredibly understated and did not remotely allow for how terrible this movie really was.
Perfectly acted parody of LA life, very funny and understated.
The acting was over the top by almost all the actors save for Caleb which was so understated that it made his passive character seem like a doormat.
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