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the actors must struggle with the fact that they 're playing characters who sometimes feel more like literary conceits than flesh-and-blood humans

negative

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a pedestrian , flat drama that screams out ' amateur ' in almost every frame

negative

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self-important summer fluff

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goes beyond his usual fluttering and stammering and captures the soul of a man in pain who gradually comes to recognize it and deal with it
positive