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anastasia contains something that has been lacking from all of the recent disney releases . ..
( especially hercules ) .
.. emotion .
all the wacky characters voiced by celebrities and fantastically animated adventure sequences are n't going to hold anyone 's interest unless there is an emotional core to hold it all together .
not since disney 's beauty & the beast has there been such a compelling animated film with interesting characters and drama that works .
the story of the romanov family , the rulers of russia , and their downfall begins the film .
anastasia , one of the daughters , narrowly escapes the mad monk rasputin ( voiced by christopher lloyd ) with her grandmother ( voiced by angela landsbury ) .
but anastasia gets lost , and grows up with no memory of her royal origins .
the grandmother lives in paris , hoping to someday find her beloved anastasia , the only member of the family to survive the russian revolution .
a young woman named anya ( voiced by meg ryan ) runs across dimitri ( john cusack ) and vlad ( kelsey grammar ) , who are trying to put together a scheme to create an anastasia to fool the grandmother and get the reward money .
they pick anya to pose as their princes , and of course , it is soon revealed that anya is in fact the lost anastasia .
dimitri realizes that he can never win her love as he is a commoner , and meanwhile , rasputin is not dead , and plots his revenge against the last romanov .
the plot is actually quite well structured .
there are a lot of complexities that may have to be explained to the kids later , but it moves along fast enough that they 'll never have time to be bored .
what this really means is that the adults wo n't be bored by it either .
there is a great deal of banter between anya and dimitri that is very funny , and their relationship develops quite naturally as the film progresses .
there is , of course , lots of comedy for the kids , including rasputin 's pet bat , bartok ( hank azaria ) , who is easily the funniest thing in the film . however , the comical scenes never distract from the drama , but are worked into the plot almost seamlessly .
the animation is gorgeous - the characters seem to come to life through the talented animators .
not since beauty & the beast have animated characters had so much life to them .
even without the voices , they act .
the musical number in paris is a show - stopper , with some of the backgrounds rendered in an impressionist painting style .
as with all recent animated features , there are songs , however ,
these songs do more than just provide fodder for top-40 singers to get on the radio ( although there are three of them during the end credits ) .
the songs are all very catchy , and advance the plot , instead of just being showpieces
( except for the paris number , but that 's so much fun , it 's okay .
.. ) . i ca n't reccomend anastasia highly enough .
it 's a wonderful film that ranks right up there with other animated classics .
kids and adults alike will enjoy it , and it 's also nice to have a quality animated feature film from another studio besides disney .
P

when 17 year old beau hall ( jonathan tucker , " the virgin suicides " ) gets in a car accident after drinking with his 30 year old companion , club owner darby reese ( josh lucas , " session 9 " ) , his mom , margaret ( tilda swinton , " the war zone " ) pays reese a visit to convince him to leave her son alone .
instead , reese travels out to their lake tahoe home and lures beau out to the boat house where beau learns that his mother was right about reese .
the next morning margaret discovers darby 's dead body on their beach and , suspecting the worst , weights it down in a distant part of the lake .
but her troubles are just beginning , as she soon learns with the arrival of blackmailer alek spera ( goran visnjic , " practical magic " ) in " the deep end .
" the incredibly pale , red - headed scottish actress swinton immerses herself into the role of the reserved american super - mom whose life revolves around serving the needs of her three children and live - in father - in - law jack ( peter donat , " the game " ) .
she shows great strength while allowing other emotions to glimmer through - discomfort at challenging reese in his gay disco ( named the deep end ) , near panic at having to dive down to his body to retrieve car keys , or even wry humor when an attempt to get help from jack becomes hopelessly miscommunicated .
gradually her loneliness becomes apparent ( her husband 's a naval officer , usually away at sea ) when her attempts to email him her concerns about beau are deleted and later , when a most unusual , yet chaste , romance turns tragic .
it 's a terrific performance .
the stendahl syndrome - like script , adapted from elisabeth sanxay holding 's 40 's noir novel ' the blank wall ' by directors scott mcgehee and david siegel , would be unbelievable if not for swinton and her costar visnjic .
alek spera is a wrong side of the tracks loser who arrives after reese 's body has been discovered .
he shows margaret a videotape of beau having sex with reese and demands $ 50 , 000 or he 'll turn the tape over to the reno police .
subsequent visits will turn his mind set upside down and backwards , though , as he comes to admire and even love the woman he set out to blackmail .
there 's yet another problem , though - his partner nagle ( raymond barry , " dead man walking " ) is a harder cored criminal who wo n't let up until his share of the money is delivered .
visnjic 's dark , brooding turn has an interior shading to it that makes us believe he 's a victim of circumstance and environment .
his turnaround is palpable as he witnesses margaret 's inherent decency and her workaday surroundings .
also outstanding is tucker as beau , who has a terrific character arc and pas de deux with his mother .
initially beau 's the typical sullen teen . '
you 're blowing this out of proportion , ' he says of her concerns about reese , not comprehending that his mom has enough insight to have divined the true nature of the relationship .
as his mom gets in deeper and deeper trying to cover up a crime he did n't commit , beau becomes suspicious of her actions and apparent new companion , turning tables .
his early black eye becomes her later split lip .
while the two can never be completely honest with each other , their love for each other comes through strongly .
the directors ( " suture " ) have a firm grip on their material and cast .
the story builds perfectly with bold strokes amidst a myriad of subtler underpinnings .
water imagery is constant ( an early shot of weirdly rushing green is revealed to be a young boy cleaning out an aquarium ) .
giles nuttgens ( " fire " ) cinematography , which won the 2001 sundance festival award , is crisp and startlingly clear .
the tahoe locations and production design by kelly mcgehee and christopher tandon provide a dual personality for the film , contrasting the calm , well off existence of the lake against the gambling city of reno .
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the deep end " is a complex story of domino deeds and shifting relationships .
take the plunge .
P

tri - star ; rated r ( language , sexual situations , violence ) ;
87 minutes director and writer : darren stein cast : rose mcgowan , rebecca gayheart , judy greer , julie benz , chad christ , ethan erickson , carol kane , pam grier , tatyana m .
ali .
review by : geoff berkshire jawbreaker is the very definition of a " rip - off .
" this uninspired teen comedy takes equal parts carrie ( 1976 ) , heathers ( 1989 ) and clueless ( 1995 ) and mixes in all the necessary teen movie clich ?
s .
along the way writer / director darren stein forgets to give the film a life of its own .
the film opens with a voice over from geeky fern mayo ( judy greer ) about the four most popular girls at reagan high : courtney shayne ( rose mcgowan ) who can basically be summed up as satan in heels , julie freeman ( rebecca gayheart ) a good girl with the face of a supermodel , marcie fox ( julie benz ) a dim - witted blonde who demands that people call her " foxy " , and liz purr ( charlotte roldan ) an angel in disguise .
liz is everyone 's favorite because she 's both beautiful and kind .
liz is about to turn 17 and , as a prank , courtney convinces the other girls to help her in kidnapping liz on her birthday morning .
in order to keep liz from making any noise courtney stuffs a jawbreaker into her mouth before they gag her .
they then stuff liz in the trunk of courtney 's car but when they open it later , polaroid camera waiting to capture the moment , their lives will never be the same : poor liz has swallowed the jawbreaker and choked to death with it lodged in her throat ( the audience is treated to a few too many graphic looks at liz 's dead body ) .
courtney , thinking fast , decides to pass the death off as a rape / murder and marcie and a reluctant julie assist her .
things get complicated when fern discovers what the three girls are up to .
in order to keep her quiet courtney comes up with another plan and transforms geeky fern into " vylette " , hoping that she will also help to replace liz in the minds of the devastated students .
up until about this point the film is effective enough .
however , an investigation begins into liz 's death and the film becomes excessively dull .
the recently rediscovered talents of pam grier are thoroughly wasted in the role of detective vera cruz and the film is downright insipid in its treatment of both the characters and the audience during this long middle stretch .
courtney 's plan to frame a sleazy guy ( marilyn manson , in a brief cameo ) is never believable for a second .
meanwhile , the audience is stuck watching a string of random events which fail to develop the characters or add anything of interest to the plot .
julie leaves the group and begins a lame romance with aspiring actor zack ( chad christ ) .
he apparently gives her the courage to turn on courtney but the way things develop only make julie look stupid .
fern 's rise to popularity is equally lame .
we do get the best scene in the film ( the only one with a spark of originality ) during this section .
it 's a smart and subversive bit where courtney gets the high school 's resident jock stud dane ( ethan erickson ) to demonstrate , using a popsicle , exactly what he would like for her to do to him .
it at least provides us with a look at courtney 's personality but the way the scene finishes does n't make any sense .
stein is very conscious of the teen movie tradition he is working in and not only freely borrows major plot elements but also includes direct acknowledgment of this with some stunt casting .
william katt and p .
j .
soles ( students in carrie ) are liz 's distraught parents , jeff conaway ( from grease ( 1978 ) ) is julie 's creepy single dad and carol kane ( the frightened babysitter in when a stranger calls ( 1979 ) ) camps it up as principal miss sherman .
at times jawbreaker feels simply like teen cinema 's greatest hits but the audience is cheated with watered down interpretations of the best this genre has to offer .
the only notable aspect of jawbreaker is the incredibly stylish look .
the costume design by vickie brinkford and the production design by jerry fleming are both bright and vivid .
they were apparently instructed to work from the color palette of a jawbreaker and the screen is always splashed with bits of vibrant color .
director of photography amy vicent , who beautifully lensed eve 's bayou ( 1997 )
, does a remarkable job here as well .
shot composition and camera movement is consistently impressive .
performances are mostly sub - par with mcgowan providing only a few good moments ( compared with her excellent work in the doom generation ( 1995 ) and scream ( 1996 ) ) and gayheart making the biggest impression due to the sweet nature of her character and her obvious beauty .
none of the actors look as if they have set foot inside a high school within the last five years with the exception of actress / singer tatyana ali , who has a small role as a cheerleader .
the male cast all resemble male models and are credited with names like " auto stud , " " college stud , " and " high school stud # 2 .
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the soundtrack is decent and imperial teen 's catchy " yoo hoo " makes a bigger impression than any other aspect of the film .

N