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Downsizing ** (2017, Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Kristen Wiig, Rolf Lassgård, Udo Kier) – Movie Review
Co-writer/ director Alexander Payne’s ecologically minded sci-fi social satire follows the story of kindly married occupational therapist Paul Safranek (Matt Damon), who undergoes a a newly invented procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so […]
About Schmidt **** (2002, Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates) – Classic Movie Review 457
Co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s 2002 wry comedy, loosely based on the 1996 novel by Louis Begley, focuses on the same late-life crisis situation and similar resolution through an unpredictable road trip that he explores so profitably again in […]
Sideways **** (2004, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh) – Classic Movie Review 456
Co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s appealing 2004 little gem won him his first Best Screenplay Oscar. Adapted from the novel by Rex Pickett, Payne’s script is co-written by Jim Taylor, like his earlier film Election (1999). Paul […]
Election **** (1999, Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Klein) – Classic Movie Review 455
Based on the 1998 novel by Tom Perrotta, co-writer/director Alexander Payne’s 1999 satirical comedy is an incisively funny winner. A metaphor for the state of American politics, Election is a very useful antidote to the late-90s […]
Nebraska ***** (2013, Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach) – Film Review
The 77-year-old Bruce Dern won the Best Actor award at Cannes as booze-addled old Woody Grant, who wrongly thinks he’s won $1million in a Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize giveaway and intends to claim it even […]
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