A true man shows

Rating: 8/10 (5 July 2001)

This is among Pete Weir's best ,just a notch or two under "fearless" or "witness" and much more worthwhile than weepies like "dead poets society".Jim Carrey is ,relatively speaking,sparing of gestures and ,hem!grimaces.However,in my humble opinion ,the best performance comes from Laura Linney,who's very funny,delivering lines as she would do commercials,and always with that suave smile on her face:she really acts as if she's in a play,and she 's anyway, as Paul Mac Cartney sang in "Penny Lane".Ed Harris is effective as a sort of God (TV has replaced God in many a home,like it or not),his spectacles and his bonnet make him almost unrecognizable.The humanism displayed by Weir is very close to that of Frank Capra,and Jim Carrey is some kind of James Stewart of the nineties,naïve,with a big heart.And like Colombus (his boat isn't it called "Santa Maria"?),he has discovered a brand new world.Whether it's the best one remains to be seen.