She is the movie's screwball belle of the ball. Inside, however, Trixie harbours some tough moral fibre that keeps her from becoming totally unravelled in a crisis. Meanwhile, Nathan Lane and Brittany Murphy pop up as trashy pals to Trixie in her hours of need. So the cast is intriguing, sometimes terrific. Rudolph's plot for the piece veers all over the screen, loose-limbed and ready to run down any blind alley.
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Hollywood usually cuts them to sell more popcorn at intermission. Language is a tricky dynamic in a movie which so playfully mocks its normal usage. En Francais Nick Nolte gets involved in a political scandal in 'Trixie'. Canada's Top Movies 1. Don't Say A Word 2.