Movie Notes: The Nanny Diaries
Synopsis
Recent college graduate Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson) isn’t sure what sort of career to pursue and ends up as an overworked nanny to Mrs. X (Laura Linney), taking care of young son Grayer.
Movie Notes: The Savages
Synopsis
Siblings Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Wendy (Laura Linney) Savage are abruptly forced to care for their estranged, abusive father, Lenny (Phillip Bosco).
Movie Notes: The Squid And The Whale
Hmmm. The only way I can swallow The Squid And The Whale whole is to consider it a black comedy — squid-ink black. If the thought of a young kid swearing, drinking beer, and masturbating in a library strikes your funny bone, this film is for you.
The film expertly skewers a particular character type: Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels), is an intellectual writer — smart, well-read, contemplative — but a total asshole.
Movie Notes: Kinsey
Kinsey is a calculatingly unsexy movie about sex, which makes sense as Kinsey the scientist approached the subject from the unemotional, unjudgemental viewpoint of a researcher. It’s a biopic along the lines of Ray, The Aviator, or Tucker, with some important differences.