CUFF Review: Ed Helms and Patti Harrison Defy Expectations in Together Together Directed by Nikole Beckwith
Published Apr 26, 2021
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Hollywood has trained audiences to expect a film s leads to end up together. That s part of what writer and director Nikole Beckwith has to handle in
Together Together: with Ed Helms and Patti Harrison as the stars in any kind of comedy, a hemisphere will light up in any brain attuned to rom-coms.
Among the many adept dramatic choices in this movie, Beckwith makes that tension come across in a natural, funny way. Helms and Harrison find a natural way into it at a critical point in the movie. Their characters stake positions and cover the issue enough that it s talked through and then moved on from.
Viggo Mortensen s Falling Finds Empathy for the Unredeemable Directed by Viggo Mortensen
Starring Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henricksen, Laura Linney
6 I m sorry that I brought you into this world so you could die.
A father whispering that to his son is the first signpost of trouble to come in
Falling, the new film from Viggo Mortensen as writer and director. A mostly prosaic recollection of 1950s simplicity is given a dark current, one that reverberates in the present, where the father, played by Lance Henricksen, is struggling with dementia as his son, Mortensen, copes not only with this but also with decades of his dad s toxic behaviour.
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