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www.channel4.com - : Adapted by William Kennedy from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this has Nicholson and Streep playing two drunken bums in 30s Albany, an on/off couple haunted by their respective pasts. He has a forgotten family and a dead son, she might have made it as a singer but now things are only bearable with the bottle. It is all relentlessly bleak, and there is something galling about Hollywood dabbling in such squalor, as if it could come across as anything other than patronizing. The two leads put in startling performances to cut through such cynicism, but there's no levity or dramatic peak to elevate you from the misery. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''Ironweed,'' the new film by Hector Babenco starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, comes about as close to being an unmitigated waste of talent as any movie in recent memory. more...
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