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To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996)
Play-Great, Movie--AAARGH!!
I was in a community theater production of Gillian, and my comments echo another review here.
(Contains spoilers)
David E. Kelley's screenplay used almost none of playwright Michael Brady's dialogue, the characters were obnoxious, and they made Cindy into sleazy little tramp instead of a complex character who uses attitude to cover real growing pains. Esther was just a vicious harpy and Kevin had no substance to her. Rachel gets drunk at a party, and SHE saw Gillian? He also basically scrapped the whole anthropologist angle, and the abortion vignette, which was so key to David realizing that he had indeed constructed an icon divorced from reality. And of course, Paul, my character, was just a tool!
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
A pretty waste of time
I learned last night what WWII was all about. The losers would have to use the winner's bad accents. Nicholas Cage, a performer I usually enjoy, was wasted. Penelope Cruz could not act her way out of a paper bag and the movie was at least 1/2 hour too long. The only upside is that it is beautifully photographed, the island shots are lovely. The plot though is nonsensical, the love story unpersuasive and in all a total yawner.