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Duane Hopwood (2005)
Hollywood - hello?
How is it that such a sweet, incisive look at the story of an American family dealing with a member who can't always cope come out of the independent world with a clear voice, while Hollywood always - always! - messes it up? Too many cooks I guess. David Schwimmer is excellent, and Matt Mulhern, the writer director (and an excellent actor in his own right - ever see "Biloxi Blues"?) deserve credit for a gem of a film! The fact that this movie never made it "to a theater near you" is a testament to the inability of those who distributed it to understand what a sleeper they had on their hands. All the supporting performances are wonderful, and the film should have gotten the kind of coverage and attention that this years other indies ("Squid and the Whale" "June bug" etc.) got. I personally thought "Duane Hopwood" delivered a much more powerful punch than either of those two films. Congratulations!