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Favorite performance of the cast?


I know this may be a daunting task for this type of movie (22 main characters), but who does everyone think gave the best performance?

You can break down it by male/female, give your top 10, top 5 or top 3... just want to get an idea of who's performances affected lovers of this movie (like me) the most.

Mine is a tie- Jack Lemmon and Julianne Moore. I think Lemmon should have a recieved an Oscar nom for supporting actor that year. His scene when he apologizes/confesses to his son is devastating. He may not have been in the movie very long, and that scene was brief, but it was very well done and acted.

Onto to Moore now. Haha I know I know everyone's gonna say its cause of the famous (or infamous) scene where she walks around naked from the waist down for like 10 mins. But that scene, and all her others, were brilliant. She became one of my fav actresses after this movie, and she's generally very good.
Her nudity was not sexual in any way, and the brilliant mix of her baring her soul to her husband by confessing to an affair while she bare down there is brilliant. As is Moore's performance.

What does everyone else think?

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Jennifer Jason Leigh & Tim Robbins



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Top actress - Julianne Moore

Top actor - Robert Downey Jr.


Top five:-
1. Julianne Moore
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh
3. Robert Downey Jr.
4. Chris Penn
5. Jack Lemmon

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For the women: I thought Jennifer Jason Leigh and Julianne Moore gave the best performances - they were certainly the most difficult roles for different reasons. (Anne Archer and Lily Tomlin also did great work here.)

For the men: Tim Robbins and Robert Downey, Jr. (Fred Ward and Chris Penn were really good, too.)


You didn't ask, but my two least favorite performances were Matthew Modine (imho, he's a good actor and has some nice moments, but I thought his acting was forced here), and he woman who plays the jazz singer, Annie Ross, also had a few scenes that could have been amazing, but just fell flat. Both these actors seemed miscast to me.

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lily allen
moore
davidson
jason leigh
downey

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Male: Tim Robbins

Female: Lily Tomlin

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Julianne Moore and Lily Tomlin.

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Male - Tim Robbins

Female - Julianne Moore

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Julianne Moore was definitely the standout performance, Jennifer Jason Leigh was great too.. i also liked Chris Penn, Jack Lemmon, Lili Taylor and Lily Tomlin

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