November 6, 2009 at 11:05 am by Edward Adams
THE FOURTH KIND: Dr. Abigail Tyler (Milla Jovovich) recalls in detail her alien abduction experience under hypnosis.
GENRE: Supernatural docudrama
THE PITCH: Director Olatunde Osunsanmi reenacts a mysterious tale of alien abduction told by Dr. Abigail Tyler through interviews and recorded footage of close encounters in Nome, Alaska. Shot as a hybrid between a documentary and a feature film, viewers follow Tyler’s (Milla Jovovich) desperate search to uncover the truth about strange coincidences occurring to her family and the residents of Nome.
MONEY SHOTS: Dr. Tyler and her colleague Dr. Campos (Elias Koteas) reluctantly hypnotize her patient Scott Stracinsky (Enzo Cilenti) again in his bedroom after he starts to exhibit abnormal behavior. As he begins to retrace what happened to him, he springs forward, sitting straight up before hovering over the bed and speaking in ancient Sumerian.
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April 16, 2009 at 8:30 am by Curt Holman
RUMOR HAS IT: Alma Roberts (Alfre Woodard, left) and Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie)
Few cinematic comparisons can be as dismissive as likening a film to a made-for-TV movie or a Hallmark Hall of Fame production. The label serves as shorthand for obvious, unchallenging screen stories. The exceptions tend to be forgotten, such as 1980’s fine Gideon’s Trumpet, in which Henry Fonda played an elderly small-timer whose case led to the landmark Supreme Court ruling that criminal defendants have the right to an attorney.
Director Tim Disney’s new drama American Violet feels a lot like a made-for-TV movie but doesn’t transcend the genre like Gideon’s Trumpet. It follows a similar formula in dramatizing the case of Dee Roberts (Nicole Beharie), a waitress and mother to four young daughters, who’s wrongfully accused and arrested for being a drug dealer. Under enormous pressure to plead guilty and go free as a convicted felon, Dee ultimately accepts ACLU help to sue the district attorney (Michael O’Keefe) for racism in enforcing drug laws.
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