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- Starring: Alberta Watson, Jeremy Davies
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- Director: David O. Russell
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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90A director with a more sensationalistic temperament might have milked this last section of the picture for melodramatic effect, but Russell's direction becomes, if anything, more brisk and more clipped.
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It is also the sort of astonishingly fresh and self-assured work that can make a reputation.
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80Russell's success, however, is in creating a film that avoids being freaky or an exercise in titillation by employing a mixture of sympathetic writing and black, black comedy.
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A movie about mother-son incest may sound like a daring writing-directing début, but David O. Russell, the fledgling auteur, stacks the deck like an old sharpie.
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