Posts Tagged ‘Sam Mendes’

Away We Go

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Likable TV actors Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski stress their charm to the limit in Away We Go. As Verona and Burt, an unmarried, mixed-race couple expecting their first child, Rudolph’s warm coloring and freckly, smiling placidity contrasts Krasinki’s lanky, unfazed, big-boy goofiness. They represent an Obama-era ideal, born of the media’s predominant middle-class tenets:
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REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

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As The Wheelers, a perfect-seeming, golden-blond, white American middle-class married couple in Revolutionary Road, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet press all the high-drama buttons, yet they don’t resemble anyone anybody actually knows. Their marital problems, based on each person’s sulky personality—Frank’s a restless philanderer, April’s a frustrated artist, they’re both jealous of each other—could fill
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