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MSC,
OPAS
Three Decades of Performing Arts
Tuesday-Wednesday Nights!
February 11 -12 at 7:30 PM
Rudder Auditorium
TICKETS
Call 845-1234 or logon to
www.MSCOPAS.org
For Mature
Audiences
Featuring Your Favorite Songs from the Hit Movie!
'The Hours"
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman,
Julianne Moore
Paramount/Miramax
Director: Stephen Daldry
“The Hours” centers around three women
who are strongly affected by the classic
Virginia Woolf novel “Mrs. Dalloway.” One is
writing it, one is reading it and the other is liv
ing it. It is the Golden Globe winner for Best
Drama, and Nicole Kidman won the Golden
Globe for Best Actress.
In the film, Kidman portrays famed but trou
bled author Virginia Woolf as she pens the
acclaimed novel. Kidman’s character is
becoming increasingly depressed as her cre
ativity is stifled under suburban life.
Meryl Streep portrays Clarissa Vaughan, a
modern-day Mrs. Dalloway, who begins to ques
tion the purpose of her life when her friend asks,
“When was the last time you were happy?”
Julianne Moore gives the most convincing
performance in the film as Laura Brown, a
1950s homemaker whose loneliness increases
as her family grows larger.
Ultimately, these three women must make
life-altering choices to either overcome the
inequities and mundane nature of life or live
with the knowledge that they will remain
unhappy and unfulfilled until death.
“The Hours” attempts to preach empower
ment in a story in which suicide and running
away appear to be the only options. However,
in addition to the characters’ lack of choices,
some of their shocking actions render the film
somewhat unbelievable.
The film attempts to salvage the message,
“Life is the answer,” at the very end, but it is too
late. The audience is left questioning the full
ness and meaning of their own lives. While this
may have been the intent of the filmmakers, and
a reality for many, it is not the feeling one wants
to carry home from the movie theater.
While all three actresses deliver incredible
performances, this film lacks the substance to
fully explore their talents.
It limps along at an incredibly slow pace
because no explanation is given how these
women arrive in their respective situations. The
screenplay is a watered-down version of the
Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and the film’s
producers should have remembered that not
everyone has read the book.
Exercise caution within regard to whom you
see this film. The intense, mature subject mat
ter makes this film’s PG-13 rating a joke. “The
Hours” is a complex novel that should not have
been adapted to the screen. It is neither the
“feel-good movie of the year,” nor the best.
—Jeremy Osborne
"About Schimdt"
Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates,]
Hope Davis, Durmot Mulronq
New Line Cinema
Director: Alexander Payne
Warren Schmidt, played by Jack Nicholson,
just retired from an Omaha insurance company*
he worked for almost 40 years.
During a rather depressing retirement party al
drab, third-rate steakhouse, where co-workers stand
and congratulate him on a successful career, Scl
heads to the restaurant bar feeling completely
tied with his life, which for him was only hisci
Schmidt’s life as a retiree leaves him with the
option of joining in the daily life of his wife of
years, Helen, whom Schmidt feels he does not
anymore, asking, “who is this old woman who is
my house?”
It is not the restlessness of retirement but rat
desperation that inspires Schmidt to explore theq
highway in his 30-foot Winnebago Adventtu
Schmidt heads to Colorado with the mission ofsavi
his somewhat estranged daughter, Janie (Hope Davit
from marrying mullet-sporting, waterbed salesi
Randall Hertzel (Durmot Mulroney, “My Bi
Friend’s Wedding”).
This is where the real fun begins as Schmidt
introduced into a counterculture of fellow Winnel
travellers on the road and begins correspondencewi
a 6-year- old Tanzanian boy whom he sponsors for
cents a day as part of his efforts to make an impact
the world. Schmidt’s loneliness on the road evoki
some sympathy as he struggles with how to
his life.
Director Alexander Payne makes a graceful transit
from the comedic lives of Schmidt’s trip and the Hei
family whom Janie joins into dramatic moments
Schmidt’s solitude and complete loneliness.
Look out for Kathy Bates as Randall Hertzel
New Age, rather crass mother, especially in a
scene with Nicholson.
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