![]() ![]() Best-Actress Battle Royal: A banner crop of leading ladies like Michelle Yeoh and Cate Blanchett rule the Oscars’ deepest and most dynamic race. ![]() Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams: Why she made the surprising choice to skip the supporting actress category and run for best actress.Kyle Buchanan is covering the films, personalities and events along the way. The Projectionist Chronicles the Awards Season The Oscars aren’t until March, but the campaigns have begun. The main part of the film is set in the faraway 1960's, in California, where Mike (Elijah Wood), who is about 11 years old, and his younger brother, Bobby (Joseph Mazzello), have moved from the East with their recently divorced mother, Mary (Lorraine Bracco).Īs narrated by the adult Mike, played by an unbilled Tom Hanks, young Mike and Bobby so adore their mother and so treasure her new-found happiness that they can't bring themselves to tell her the truth about the man she marries on impulse (Adam Baldwin), who likes to be called the King. By the end, though, the story can just as easily be read as a metaphor about a child's suicide, which doesn't seem to have been anybody's intention. "Radio Flyer" is a memory film, a story told on a sunny afternoon to two small boys to illustrate why it's important that promises be kept. That's the only way to explain why this tale of childhood magic winds up being so bleak and gross. Richard Donner's "Radio Flyer" is one of those infrequent and embarrassing efforts of a perfectly adequate Hollywood director to make the kind of offbeat movie for which he has no aptitude at all. ![]()
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