OMG! Trust the Man!
So apparently, Bart Freundlich's romantic comedy Trust the Man is being released sometime soon now after all. I'm so excited! It currently has 5 reviews on rotten tomatoes, all fresh. So it SHOULD be relatively good.
In it, Julianne Moore plays a successful actress with a stay-at-home husband. Hmmm... what a stretch? Not really. The husband is played by David Duchovny (the director's surrogate, one might say). Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal costar as Moore's brother and his girlfriend.
I hope this turns out to be good. This might actually be Moore's first successful foray into (relatively) light comedy. Cross your fingers, everyone.
BTW, the Streepathon is on hold due to my netflix account being suspended. I have to reactivate it once I get my new credit card, which will be in god-knows-how-long, judging from my bank's repeated incompetence. Sigh.
posted by adam k. @ 12:54 AM
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yeah you better cross your fingers, because Julianne Moore totally sucks at comedy, she has horrible timing. one of the most overrated actresses to ever grace the big screen
She's so hot in this picture. Please let her be nominated for "Savage Grace" or "Children of Men", please please please.
Children of Men looks unlikely, but she could totally get nominated for Savage Grace if they actually finish it and pull a surprise attack in late December. That would be sweet.
To anonymous: Very few people think she's good at comedy. I basically admitted as much in the post. So it seemed unnecessary to bash her like that. Do you have some kind of agenda? What makes you hat her so?
But as evidence that she does have it in her somewhere to pull off genius comic timing, I submit the porn scene in Boogie Nights. She's crazy hilarious there. But apparently she can only do that when her character is very well written and severely f**ked up.
I dont hate her, I just think she is overrated, I quite liked her in Boogie Nights and Safe, but that's it. The End of The Affair didn't impress me, and I thought Far From Heaven wasn't spectacular at all. just my opinion =)
oh and don't get me started on that trainwreck called The Hours...
A vein is throbbing in my temple because of your comments, Mr. Anonymous. Julianne Moore is no way over-rated. She's underrated, if anything. The best actress of the past decade.
Anyway...I think it's quite possible for her to squeeze into the Oscar shortlist for Children of Men. The trailer is spectacular, and if it's a huge critical success, AMPAS might want to nominate it for something (but not Best Picture - might be too sci-fi-ish).
And I don't know much about Savage Grace but it sounds pretty juicy. She could get nomm'ed for that instead because it would be more Oscary and the Academy would feel like they were giving her a shout-out for both of her efforts (as well as Todd Hayne's I'm Not There.
I seriously doubt Moore will be nominated this year, for the following reasons:
1) Savage Grace just started rolling cameras last month; unless the director Tom Kalin can pull a Steven Spielberg (Munich), this is being pushed to 2007. It doesn't even have a proper release date.
2) Best Actress is mega-packed this year - with actors like Knowles, Kidman, Dench, Judd, Winslet, Mirren, and Streep herself in the running, Moore will have trouble making the final cut. Children of Men doesn't look like the kind of film that Oscar voters regularly embrace. If it gets a nod, it will be for Screenplay (if that).
On a tangent, I totally feel this is Winslet's year. The timing seems very appropriate (like Penn getting his due after multiple nods).
And hey, at least Anon agreed that she was fantastic in Safe. That's good enough for me.
I love how this post was really supposed about Trust the Man, but is now all about whether Moore will be nominated for an oscar (for a totally different film).
She won't be nommed for Children of Men. But I think a surprise release for Grace could be just the ticket for a nod and possible win. It's just a small indie, it can't take as long to shoot and edit as Munich did. And these kinds of things have happened before (M$B?).
But frankly, I'm just happy Savage Grace is being made at all. The perf will be its own reward.
And thanks for commenting, everyone! Even if it wasn't about Trust the Man or Julianne's small-time director husband.
But if they've had this much trouble getting the damn thing off the ground in the first place, can you really trust them (not the man) to not only get the film completed by the end of December, but also to create a fully honed Oscar fyc campaign?
Seriously, all these ladies this year are gonna need killer ad campaigns to get into those five spots (that is unless some majorly fall off the radar)
btw Ali, you didn't mention Penelope Cruz. I may be the only one, but I really think she's gonna get a nom. It may be uncommon (nigh on impossible) but with so many high profile previous nominees/winners (Streep, Winslet, Bening, Kidman, Dench, Blanchett, Mirren, Weaver, Moore) in the mix surely they have to give a nomination to at least one newcomer (to the oscar scene) and as weird as it may seem, I think Cruz is the one to do it.
If Cruz gets nommed I will boasting something shocking. I've been predicting her since May.
The reason they never got it going before was just because of financing. That was a different issue. Now that they're really filming there's nothing stopping them from getting it done by december. I'm not saying they will, but it's certainly possible.
I think Cruz is a great bet for a gloce comedy nom, but I oscar, I don't know. I think Judd has the newcomer spot this year.
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