natalie portman shines

Rating: Null/10 (21 May 2005)

pay close (pun intended) attention to the name Alice gives Larry when he catches up to her in the strip club and then look at the name in her passport when she goes back to New York at the end of the movie.
I once hung around with a stripper in thorold ontario, a welland canal town that was a magnet to all the rough edge types. strippers truly have a very hard thick exterior with a tiny very soft fragile inside. at least the one I got to know.
if natalie portman ever decides of a career change she certainly has the moves and manner of a professional stripper. I heard the full frontal stuff wound up on the cutting floor. as it should. there was no need to distract from a very powerful film by glimpses of Natalie.
I first saw Clive Owen in . . . the one about the casino worker. very impressive here. julia roberts was her usual so-so self. why is that woman so highly rated? jude law really takes the cake as the unlucky-in-love. he could have had it all, a life of devotion and loyalty from a woman who genuinely loves him but, nah, gotta throw it ALL away in fragile masculine ego jealousy.