Lifetime Original Movies have earned a reputation for being movies made for women that usually involve a disturbing amount of brutality towards women. Plot-lines often include domestic abuse, rape, and ripped-from-the-headlines crimes. The Jodi Picoult Collection, which includes Salem Falls, Plain Truth, and The Pact, doesn't exactly break from this trend. Salem Falls is about a high school soccer coach falsely accused of raping an underage student. In Plain Truth, a high-power attorney takes on a murder trial of an Amish girl accused of killing her baby. Finally, The Pact follows a teen couple who make a suicide pact and only one of them dies. While the Lifetime Original Movies might have a weirdly addictive quality to them, the Jodi Picoult Collection is empty TV calories at its best and utterly depressing schlock with anti-woman tendencies at its worst.
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- 8/15/2012
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
By Allen Gardner
A Separation (Sony) This drama from Iran won the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, telling the story of a couple who file for a legal separation, with the wife pushing for a divorce. He won’t leave his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father behind, while she is wanting to take their young daughter with her to the United States. After a series of misunderstandings, threats and legal actions, the couple find that there is more than just their marriage that’s on the line. Hyper-realistic to a fault, reminiscent of the neo-realist films that came out of post-ww II Europe, but also repressive and redundant in the extreme, with the characters seeming to throw the same temper tantrum for two hours straight while the story, meanwhile, seems stalled. Wildly overpraised film is a real litmus test, with viewers seeming to be staunch defenders or equally impassioned detractors. It did win an Oscar,...
A Separation (Sony) This drama from Iran won the 2011 Best Foreign Film Oscar, telling the story of a couple who file for a legal separation, with the wife pushing for a divorce. He won’t leave his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father behind, while she is wanting to take their young daughter with her to the United States. After a series of misunderstandings, threats and legal actions, the couple find that there is more than just their marriage that’s on the line. Hyper-realistic to a fault, reminiscent of the neo-realist films that came out of post-ww II Europe, but also repressive and redundant in the extreme, with the characters seeming to throw the same temper tantrum for two hours straight while the story, meanwhile, seems stalled. Wildly overpraised film is a real litmus test, with viewers seeming to be staunch defenders or equally impassioned detractors. It did win an Oscar,...
- 8/1/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Kelly Preston and Ron Eldard have signed on to star in the Lifetime original movie The Tenth Circle, based on the novel by Jodi Picoult.
In Circle, Preston plays Laura Stone, who teaches at a local college and is married to Daniel (Eldard), a comic book artist. Their idyllic lives are turned upside down when their daughter is drugged and date-raped by her ex-boyfriend Jason.
When Jason later dies in an apparent suicide, the family finds itself at the center of a high-profile investigation that rocks their Maine community. Soon, Daniel's dark, controversial past and Laura's personal secrets are revealed.
"We are thrilled to have Kelly Preston starring in this project along with Ron Eldard in what is an extremely powerful piece about how far parents will go to protect their children," Lifetime senior vp original movies Tanya Lopez said. She also called Picoult "a remarkable storyteller."
Circle, released in 2006, is Picoult's 13th novel. Two other Picoult novels have been turned into Lifetime movies: 1998's The Pact and 2000's Plain Truth.
Circle, from Jaffe/Braunstein Films, is set to go into production next month for a 2008 premiere.
In Circle, Preston plays Laura Stone, who teaches at a local college and is married to Daniel (Eldard), a comic book artist. Their idyllic lives are turned upside down when their daughter is drugged and date-raped by her ex-boyfriend Jason.
When Jason later dies in an apparent suicide, the family finds itself at the center of a high-profile investigation that rocks their Maine community. Soon, Daniel's dark, controversial past and Laura's personal secrets are revealed.
"We are thrilled to have Kelly Preston starring in this project along with Ron Eldard in what is an extremely powerful piece about how far parents will go to protect their children," Lifetime senior vp original movies Tanya Lopez said. She also called Picoult "a remarkable storyteller."
Circle, released in 2006, is Picoult's 13th novel. Two other Picoult novels have been turned into Lifetime movies: 1998's The Pact and 2000's Plain Truth.
Circle, from Jaffe/Braunstein Films, is set to go into production next month for a 2008 premiere.
- 12/4/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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