Jennifer Jason Leigh
Added 7/22/2008
What can I say about this movie. Any time Jennifer Jason Leigh gets naked its a good movie.
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One of my all time best movie
Added 1/20/2007
The music is absolutely haunting and memorable. JJL is fantastic. She is one of the true artists in the movie business you just don't hear from in the media at all. Their true beauty shines only through their work. Streep comes to mind...
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The only thing redeeming about this film is the music
Added 5/27/2006
This film creates a nightmare. The sun never shines. It is always dark. The characters are either street toughs, who engage in habitual brutal exploitation, or their victims, who are shadowy and undeveloped. The violence is really extreme, on every level. It could be a story of life inside a prison or of a war, but we are told it takes place in Brooklyn in 1952.
I kept trying to find something redeeming, some selfless act of human kindness, something half way beautiful that would lead me out of this version of hell, some visual depiction of the exquisite string music provided by Mark Knopfler as the score; but very little was there. The film did not show anything that cried out for justice in the strike, and therefore it was hard not to sympathize with the company, which at least employed some reason in their tactics. All the personal relationships were either superficial, or so briefly touched upon, that it was hard to imagine any depth or lasting impression or anything very meaningful.
If it is enough to depict a hell of violence and victimization, then this film succeeds, with gut wrenching performances such as Jennifer Jason Leigh's. But it leads nowhere.
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jennifer jason leigh...a talent others wish they had!!!
Added 3/5/2006
i own every single film this actress has done, and i watch her religiously. sure, julia roberts and others have oscars for their forgettable work, but jennifer is the one and only actress who actually has range and a gift to bring to a character to life. actresses in today's hollywood scene need to take a lesson and learn what jennifer does with her enormous gift. she researches characters and comes across the screen effortlessly, which nobody has been able to do. she is the ONLY actress i pay attention to and the only important one, which is inexplicably ignored at oscar time! yes, jennifer has won numerous awards for her work, but usually from the indepedent spirits, golden globes, sundance, critics film circle, and others. this chameleon of an actress
has done it all and can do no wrong. and until she finally grabs that gold man by the balls, hollywood will be kicking themselves for NOT rewarding her wih the most honorable statuette in history for her lengthy list of previous classics!!!!
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An undoubted classic
Added 11/28/2004
I watched this excellent piece 14-15 years ago when it was released in theaters and I was an inexperienced college boy. After all these years, I still cannot get JJL out of my mind when she remembers the lines of the letter sent by her pathetic overseas soldier lover who vainly tries to save hear...I cannot help but still shed a tear when she hugs the boy who saves her from the gangrapers when remembering those lines. This is due to either JJL's enormous talents or to the fact that how disturbing this masterful flick is...or due to both. Anyone who thinks that this movie, among all other things, is deprived of soul, feeling, sense and love should see a shrink. They are only well disguised behind a paranoic, real, bleak, darkly realistic streets of Brooklyn in 1950s. One of the best but criminally underrated movies of all time.
Oh, well, lovers of supposedly fine stars like Demi Moore or Richard Gere may get confused...After all this movie reflects the life in naked truth with a superb cast
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Jennifer Jason Leigh
Added 7/22/2008
What can I say about this movie. Any time Jennifer Jason Leigh gets naked its a good movie.
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One of my all time best movie
Added 1/20/2007
The music is absolutely haunting and memorable. JJL is fantastic. She is one of the true artists in the movie business you just don't hear from in the media at all. Their true beauty shines only through their work. Streep comes to mind...
2 out of 2 people found this helpful.
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The only thing redeeming about this film is the music
Added 5/27/2006
This film creates a nightmare. The sun never shines. It is always dark. The characters are either street toughs, who engage in habitual brutal exploitation, or their victims, who are shadowy and undeveloped. The violence is really extreme, on every level. It could be a story of life inside a prison or of a war, but we are told it takes place in Brooklyn in 1952.
I kept trying to find something redeeming, some selfless act of human kindness, something half way beautiful that would lead me out of this version of hell, some visual depiction of the exquisite string music provided by Mark Knopfler as the score; but very little was there. The film did not show anything that cried out for justice in the strike, and therefore it was hard not to sympathize with the company, which at least employed some reason in their tactics. All the personal relationships were either superficial, or so briefly touched upon, that it was hard to imagine any depth or lasting impression or anything very meaningful.
If it is enough to depict a hell of violence and victimization, then this film succeeds, with gut wrenching performances such as Jennifer Jason Leigh's. But it leads nowhere.
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