The first filmed screenplay of Zach Helm crowds in on the domain of Charlie Kaufman: a Pirandellian brainteaser about a robotic IRS auditor (Will Ferrell, constrained by catatonia) who discovers he is a character in the work-in-progress of a blocked novelist (Emma Thompson) and is slated to die at the …
An American actor in London, specifically in his sixth year as second banana to an old-fashioned music-hall comic. The latter role is hideously well done (by Rowan Atkinson), perhaps because the filmmakers are not far removed from him. The main character, meantime, is much overdrawn ("This is my room. It's …
What do bros (in this case, Robert Redford) do once they get old? In A Walk in the Woods, they get sick of attending funerals, decide to out-hike Death on the Appalachian Trail, and tell the old lady (Emma Thompson) where she can stick her objections to stupidly risking one's …
A people-who-need-people piece, divided into four duos (a mother and widowed daughter, a teenage boy and girl, two prepubescent boys, two old biddies), played out in a frozen Scottish coastal town. The amount of outdoor activity and the shuttling back and forth between pairs help to disguise the stage origins …