God Bless the Broken Road review turbid Frankenfilm
The film blends NASCAR Afghanistan war themes with a Rascal Flatts song to tell the tale of Amber a widowed waitress who rekindles faith as a NASCAR driver Cody helps her daughter Bree. Pulsipher delivers a stronger performance than the messy plot deserves while the movie struggles to justify its cross genre mash up.
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Bart Millard
Harold Cronk
Afghanistan
Lindsay Pulsipher
Amber
Bree
Makenzie Moss
Cody
Andrew W. Walker
Robin Givens
Jordin Sparks
Pulsipher
The Bookshop film review critique by Isabel Coixet
A lukewarm adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, The Bookshop stars Emily Mortimer as Florence Green who opens a 1959 Suffolk bookstore amid town resistance led by Violet Gamart. The film, directed with restrained camera work, is heavy with dialogue and lacks dramatic tension, though Mortimer and Bill Nighy offer the sole bright spots.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
Florence Green
Emily Mortimer
Hardborough
Suffolk
Vladimir Nabokov
Ray Bradbury
Violet Gamart
Patricia Clarkson
Green
Bill Nighy
Masterpiece Theatre
Mortimer
Nighy
Coixet
Gamart
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