Ok, Datalounge, why didn't any of you tell me about this all-star movie? Everybody in the movie is well known from Vanessa Redgrave to Claire Danes to Patrick Wilson to Natasha Richardson and Toni Collette. Plus, the movie has BOTH Meryl Streep AND Glenn Close in it. AND Glenn plays Meryl's mother!!!

This film should be a DL classic. Glenn played Meryl's MOTHER!!!

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reply 38

April 19, 2018 7:42 PM

I saw this movie, but I barely remember anything about it -- so what does that tell you?

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April 6, 2018 2:35 AM

I loved this movie. In fact, I even bought the DVD from Amazon, just in case it becomes unavailable to stream.

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April 6, 2018 2:47 AM

Plus Mamie plays my daughter or me as a teen or some fool thing like that. I'm so embarrassed.

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April 6, 2018 2:50 AM

So Glenn Close plays Mamie Gummer's grandmother? Yes, this should be a DL classic.

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April 6, 2018 3:06 AM

[quote]So Glenn Close plays Mamie Gummer's grandmother?

No. Mamie and Meryl are the same woman in different time periods. Glenn plays Mamie's mother, but the character is played by Meryl 50 years later.

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April 6, 2018 3:07 AM

Also Hugh Dancy kisses Patrick Wilson

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April 6, 2018 3:09 AM

It’s a really good movie and there’s a gay plot line. I don’t know why it isn’t more we’ll known.

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April 6, 2018 3:11 AM

Was I nominated for this? No? Well no wonder I'd forgotten it.

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April 6, 2018 3:37 AM

It’s awful. I thought it would be better, coming from Susan Minot.

Mamie has a leading role. Toni Collette is the best thing about it and Claire sings very nicely.

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April 6, 2018 3:42 AM

Despite the cast (most of them) it's really dreadful.

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April 6, 2018 3:44 AM

Claire danes?

omg pass.

her cow face gives me gas.

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April 6, 2018 4:23 AM

[quote]Claire danes? omg pass. her cow face gives me gas.

I don't know why they cast her. Patrick Wilson's character is supposed to be attracted to her. In fact, none of the 1950s women are beautiful. The Gummer girl looks like she has a double chin.

I've never read the book, but the movie is just boring. It's like they had an idea for a story, but none of it seems to come together in an interesting way.

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April 6, 2018 1:19 PM

That cunt Claire Danes took a perfectly nice, career-closeted bi-boy like Hugh Nancy, put her claws in him, and ruined him. A guy I occasionally fucked used to fuck Hugh and described the ways the demanding monster Danes would subjugate him emotionally. She is a true horror.

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April 6, 2018 1:36 PM

It's largely forgotten because it's terrible.

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April 6, 2018 1:43 PM

Oh! Self-loathing drunken gay closet case happily dies and lets everyone get on with her life!

Yeah, a real classic.

Fuck that shit, no matter what the camp cast looks like.

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April 6, 2018 1:53 PM

The more interesting story would have been if Dancy and Claire Danes characters married and then he went out cheating on her. NYC, 1960s. He fit right in with the Ramble crowd.

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April 6, 2018 11:57 PM

Hugh fits in with the Rambles crowd right now, r17. And he probably is or will be cheating on that harridan.

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April 8, 2018 4:08 AM

The consensus, above, is that this movie bites the bag.

Ergo, in the grand and glorious tradition of DL, it should be considered a fabulous camp classic, a la "Showgirls" and "Mommie Dearest," no?

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April 8, 2018 4:16 AM

[quote] it should be considered a fabulous camp classic, a la "Showgirls" and "Mommie Dearest," no?

No, because it's boring as hell. DL doesn't go for boring as hell.

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April 8, 2018 4:19 AM

This is the one where, during filming, Hugh Dancy got wasted and made out with Michael Cunningham in front of everyone. It was in the tabloids.

Then he stole Claire Danes from Billy Crudup.

He was a busy little bitch.

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April 8, 2018 4:21 AM

[quote]Hugh Dancy got wasted and made out with Michael Cunningham in front of everyone. It was in the tabloids.

Obviously a Method Actor.

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April 8, 2018 4:30 AM

I never knew this movie existed until this thread. I am shocked.

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April 8, 2018 4:37 AM

This is a (failed) Mamie Gummer vehicle, BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. Mary Louise owes Glenn until the END OF TIME for pitching in.

Am I capitalizing TOO MUCH?

Perhaps.

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April 8, 2018 4:52 AM

Glenn and Meryl are 0 for 2 in movies in which they appeared together. "The House of the Spirits" had so much going for it on paper - based on the novel by Isabel Allende and with an all star cast including Streep, Close, Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Winona Rider, Antonio Banderas, Armen Mueller-Stahl, Vincent Gallo (not to mention another Streep offspring, this time a very young Grace Gummer!). Unfortunately it was a truly awful film, much worse than "Evening". And while Streep got to play the pretty new bride, Close had to play the dowdy spinster sister!

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April 8, 2018 5:19 AM

[quote]And while Streep got to play the pretty new bride, Close had to play the dowdy spinster sister!

Oh, now I don't think that's such bad casting. Do you?

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April 8, 2018 5:27 AM

Whatever happened to the Gummer son? He was an extra when Meryl did "The Seagull" for Shakespeare in the Park, but he really hasn't had much of a career. Does he just live off his trust fund? And you never hear about the youngest daughter.

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April 8, 2018 5:28 AM

The youngest is going to Yale School of Drama. Henry just lives off his trust fund, smokes weed and sings poorly.

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April 8, 2018 5:36 AM

The damn devil daughters all look the damn same.

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April 8, 2018 5:38 AM

Her kids are cute. I am surprised that not one of them has shown much talent. Maybe Grace but the others seem untalented so far.

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April 8, 2018 5:40 AM

I'm glad none of them looks like Jack Nicholson.

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April 8, 2018 9:32 AM

I like Grace a lot, but Mamie can go fuck a toad

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April 8, 2018 4:49 PM

I'm surprised no one on DL (or maybe they have--someone should have) has mentioned how cute Streep's son Henry is. He's a fuckable piece of meat. Who needs talent when you look like that? He's hot and sweaty and looks like he knows how to fuck.

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April 8, 2018 5:38 PM

[quote]I'm surprised no one on DL (or maybe they have--someone should have) has mentioned how cute Streep's son Henry is.

And he has hair up to his collarbone, just like Meryl has.

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April 8, 2018 5:41 PM

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April 8, 2018 5:41 PM

He's swarthy and fuckworthy, they're all pasty and blonde and tight looking.

Must be REALLY hard when you're those girls with that mother. Henry gets a pass from all that.

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April 8, 2018 6:03 PM

Looks like Dancy impregnated Danes again...........

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April 19, 2018 6:51 PM

[quote]Looks like Dancy impregnated Danes again

Don't mention that whore's name in my presence.

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April 19, 2018 7:42 PM