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Bad Wigs, False Teeth: FOUR GOOD DAYS
I watched this the morning of the Oscars where Glenn Close was up for Best Actress for her role in "Hillbilly Elegy", a movie I was never able to bring myself to watch, and which ironically also earned Close a Razzie. After watching "Four Good Days" I wondered if she's just kinda living on her past glory? It's an fine performance, but I don't feel Close brings anything special to this mother's anguish. There's a dozen other actresses more age appropriate who could have done just as well or better...
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ALBERT NOBBS
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The film Albert Nobbs (Director: Rodrigo García) celebrates woman’s ability to adapt and thrive under harsh circumstances. Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close) was born a female through and through; but after being orphaned and raped at the age of 14, she realized, as a boy, she’ll have the ability to make a decent wage being a waiter/butler in establishments that cater to the high society of early 19th Century Ireland. Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) also born a woman, married an abusive husband; after leaving him, she takes on his profession as a house painter and begins to present herself as a man, even to the point…