The brilliant Imelda Staunton was simply sensational. I would say that she's a strong bet for an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
Many feel that she was robbed of the Oscar for her powerful work in "Vera Drake."
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Another powerful performance from a wonderful actor in a very good movie.
shareI didn't mind the movie but I thought she was way over-the-top playing the money hungry Jewish mother. A scene where she's actually clutching piles of money and yelling at her son? Yeeesh. The acting was pretty weak overall but I don't think the actors were working with a very good screenplay.
shareI loved her in "vera drake" and I loved her in this. Just amazing! Robbed both times by the Oscars and Globes, though she was at least nominated for "vera". This one she was doubly robbed for. Hillary Swank wasn't over the top in 2004? Or Mo'nique in 2010? Come on! Imelda matched, if not topped those two wonderful actresses. Justice, where are you??? Imelda by comparison is the queen of subtlety. Check out "Vera Drake" and be wowed that it's the same person.
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You know what? On second thought, F- the award shows! Just watching her sing and dance during the pot brownies scene is enough to bring me to tears any time I watch it. Thanks, Imelda!
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Enter Ms. Staunton, and ... any production gets hijacked (oh, in it's favor, that is).
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R.I.P., Brittany Murphy
Are you kidding me? She was throughly embarrassing here. Emile Hirsch was pretty awful too, both of them only got to play one-dimensional caricatures. Ugh. Maybe just me, just found them to be so unconvincing.
shareI wasn't kidding. But I actually wasn't even commenting on the character she played, even though I don't understand how you could call the protagonist's mom a one-dimensional character. She lived through a war, specifically World War II as the primary targeted race of that war, is obviously still suffering from that, is paranoid, and is caught between her love of people and her fear of having everything taken from her. Yikes! Yet she is still able to have a gut-busting scene dancing with her muddy son after eating a few too many pot brownies, LOL.
As for Staunton's performance, which I was more directly referring to, I feel she pulled it off so convincingly that she is practically unrecognizable. As I said above, I loved her in "Vera Drake", but when I found out that was the same actress that played the mom in this movie, I seriously had a WTF moment. She vanished inside the character, however many dimensions that character had. Imelda Staunton was gone!
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She was excellent. I was shocked to learn that she is British.
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