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A frame-bursting roster of actors crowds this two-part HBO miniseries, which is nothing less than a look at America through the lens of a small New England town. Richard Russo adapted his own novel, a story of a gently depressed factory town that has always been run by the wealthiest family around (currently lorded over by matriarch Joanne Woodward). Ed Harris plays the central role, a decent, cautious man who runs a local diner and carefully negotiates the political niceties of Empire Falls; Paul Newman is his rapscallion of a father (the son is perpetually picking food out of Dad's beard), Helen Hunt is Harris's ex-wife, Aidan Quinn his feistier brother, and Robin Wright Penn his tragical mother seen in flashbacks.
The goal of Russo and director Fred Schepisi seems to have been fidelity to the novel, which gives the film a pleasingly relaxed pace but also a somewhat literal-minded binding. Even that doesn't explain the general lack of tautness, or why so much of the dialogue has an awkward fit in actors' mouths. Harris and Newman, of course, are younger and older versions of American monuments, and their sheer presence goes a long way toward making the picture work (for the premium Newman-Russo match, see Robert Benton's sublime film of Nobody's Fool). Most of the twists in the final reels are genuinely affecting, and the movie has the courage to end on a mild note rather than strain to tie everything up. It's a fitting finale for an unassuming enterprise. --Robert Horton
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A movie I will remember for a long time.,
By Johnny Boy "Ivan" (Sudbury, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Empire Falls (DVD)
I borrowed this from my local library and watched it to-night.A really great movie and I will likely buy it for future watching.A lot of my favourite actors doing their thing and as usual doing it well.Helen Hunt is one of my favourite and then with Paul Newman and the ever great Joanne Woodward along with Ed Harris,who could ask for more.I'm really surprised there are not more reviews.Buy it folks,you will not be disappointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
OK, I didn't like it one bit,
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This review is from: Empire Falls (DVD)
As I write this, there is only one other review on Amazon.ca and they loved it. Well, I didn't. The acting is superb, no doubt about that, so I gave it three stars. I just didn't like the story. I found it very dark, and as a mini-series it just went on, and on, and on, with frankly unloveable characters for the most part. It was excruciatingly painful to watch until the end, and when there is a sudden burst of horrendous violence all I could think of was "of course this would happen in a show like this." Yes, I know it was an adaptation of the book, but I have not read the book and after watching this, will never put myself through the downer of the book as well. Just so you know.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Empire Falls,
By simba (New Brunswick, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Empire Falls (DVD)
If you love movies about small town people and their lives, you will love Empire Falls. It's a wonderful movie with so many good actors in it which include Paul Newman, his wife, Joanne Woodward, Ed Harris, and many more.I purchased it because I want to watch it more than once.
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