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Walking Across Egypt (1999)
gentle, character-driven drama
This adaptation of Clyde Edgerton's "Walking Across Egypt" is a gentle, character-driven drama, made by a team that has honored the simplicity and integrity of the project. Ellen Burstyn plays a Georgia widow who crosses paths with a young grifter (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). The film includes light-hearted supporting turns from Dana Ivey, Gwen Verdon, and Pat Corley (Phil the tavern-owner in "Murphy Brown"). Tech staff have done a good job with the look and feel of the small Southern town and its variety of Old South/New South citizens. If there is any hurdle in warming to the story, it might be Jonathan Taylor Thomas's model-like looks; his perfect skin and teeth, for instance, do not reflect the hardscrabble background intended for the role. Even so, he works sweetly and sincerely in the part, and enhances the overall effect.