W ith just three weeks until her all-but-inevitable canonization at the Feb. In movie theaters and on television, though, her Academy Award campaign is flourishing. Black Swan , the ballet thriller that will win her the Best Actress statuette, is still dancing as fast as it can; her romantic comedy No Strings Attached , which opened two weeks ago, was the top-grossing film on Tuesday.
The two films are being shown on more than 5, screens, and this weekend they are joined by a domestic drama, The Other Woman , which opens in a few cities but is also available in millions of TV homes through Video on Demand. When an actress from the middle of the pack achieves sudden acclaim, distributors comb through her unreleased films to see if any can be tossed onto the bandwagon.
The Other Woman , which began shooting when George W. Seeing The Other Woman might seem a pleasure only for Portman completists, or a chore for critics. Are you dead-tired of these conventions? See why the Oscars race may already be over. And yet I liked The Other Woman. Kramer : the divorced father with the young son has remarried, and the second wife copes. Soon after they were married they had a daughter, Isabel, who died just after coming home from the maternity ward.
The other leading actors are question marks. The overplaying is peculiar, since Kudrow has been playing this uptight, not-as-brilliant-as-she-thinks-she-is character for decades β all through Friends , and as psychiatrist Fiona Wallace on Web Therapy , the very funny online comedy series she does with Roos.
Eventually they build an intimacy of equals, which for Will is a different sort of bond from the one he shares with his father, but warmer and just as strong. See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs. Contact us at letters time. Join Us. Customer Care. Reach Out. Connect with Us.
