Style: Satirical Crime Dramedy
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck
Operating Time: 106 minutes
Synopsis: The small city of Little Hope, New Hampshire is scandalized by the arrest of native tv climate lady Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) for plotting her husband’s homicide. In flashbacks and witness interviews, Suzanne is revealed as bold, useless, and obsessive about being on tv. She marries Larry (Matt Dillon) however is at all times extra all for her profession. After securing a job at a neighborhood cable station, she begins work on a documentary that includes underachieving excessive schoolers Jimmy, Russell, and Lydia (Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, and Alison Folland). When Larry makes an attempt to constrain Suzanne’s ambitions, she initiates a wedding escape plan by way of a nefarious seduction of the significantly dim Jimmy.
What Does Not Work As Effectively: Given the great character investments, the resolutions are abrupt, together with a barely-there investigation and a frigid mop-up. Suzanne’s lack of forethought after she wriggles freed from marital shackles is inconsistent with the previous stage of connivance.
Key Quote:
Suzanne: You are not anyone in America until you are on TV. On TV is the place we find out about who we actually are. As a result of what is the level of doing something worthwhile if no person’s watching? And if individuals are watching, it makes you a greater particular person.
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