Product: To Die For (1995)
Rating: 5.0
Nicole was robbed
If there was ever a reason to suspect how "impotent" Oscar has become,this is the movie. Nicole's performance was one of the best of the year, tightly controlled, never begging for audience sympathy and a sharp critique of the quest for stardom and notoriety. For some inexplicable reason, even after winning the Golden Globe, she didn't even get an Oscar nomination. Shame! In this film she mixes together, most deliciously, the collective "wit" and "intelligence" of such "newsbabes" as Ms Shriver, Ms Walters and Ms Sawyer who still report all news as though the loss of a button is equal to the loss of a life. After watching this film I started referring to Tom as Mr. Kidman. Ileana Douglas is also in the film and is the perfect antidote for Kidman's character. A beautiful film in the vein of American Beauty with it's unblinking eye focused on American life and the American experience.