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The Anniversary Party

The Anniversary Party

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: why is it?
Review: That people who are'nt actors or studying acting feel qualified to critic other people's professional acting? Have you ever wondered this. This is an ACTTORS MOVIE. IT is made bya cors' for actors'. If your not an actor, then the Anniversay is not for you!!! We watched this in my acting class and my acting teacher said we should study the acting in it. So if you're not going to be willing to do THE WORK to become an actor, then you shouldnt say negative things about this movies acting.

ITS NOT FOR YOU OK?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Watch it a few more times with the commentary
Review: I don't see enough movies to go into a lot of details about plot. This one looks like some famous people with digital cameras decided to shoot a movie of whatever they do best when they aren't following a script. The commentary admits that the greatest variety in the movie is an extended scene of toasts, in which most of the major characters had the responsibility of drafting their own comments about the celebrating couple, or why a dog whistle should be considered an appropriate gift, whatever.

Actually, I see so few movies that John C. Reilly and Kevin Kline were the only male actors I recognized immediately, expecting them to look as familiar as their names. The Peter Sellers look-alike was outstanding in whatever role he managed to adapt to in the film. So great, it is almost as if the writers realized that they knew someone who could do Peter Sellers so well that they could make a movie that could have been a Peter Sellers movie back in his day. Kevin Kline was reciting from the end of the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold instead of doing an original toast, but he was old enough to seem like a relic compared to the rest of the cast, and that poem is top-notch relic material.

The women in this film are so wonderful that most of my life, I was hardly aware such women existed. Parker Posey was the one I have seen most often. The cast information on the DVD listed movies that were worth checking for the years in which these actresses played high school girls in their previous movies. The tension between these women, now that they are old enough to really want something or someone of their own, gets worked over in a number of different ways. After watching the movie a few times, my favorite moment was when they left the front door open and Gwyneth Paltrow walked in. I have no idea why I have not been going to all her movies. Pretty soon she has to apologize for gushing. Just watching her, I feel the same way.


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