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Old 07-11-2010, 11:10 AM   #5427
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Sure you can, if the plotting or the secondary character development or cinematography, etc. etc, was rescued by a strong performance.

Think The Blind Side without Bulloch or Erin Brokovich without Roberts. Everything else exactly the same, without those leads, are made for Lifetime fare.
I don't think those moves are good even with those performances.

TWBB wasn't rescued by Day-Lewis. Like all character studies it needs a very strong performance because the performance is the core of those kinds of films. TWBB does not fail at being a character study. It doesn't fail at anything.
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