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Walking and talking ( 1996 )
Movie
Category : Comedy
Release date : 1996
Running time : 1:23
Director : Nicole Holofcener
Cast : Catherine Keener, Anne Heche
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Anne's character : Laura
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The winsome and underappreciated Catherine Keener plays Amelia, an unattached
New York City cutie living uncomfortably in the shadow of her best friend Laura (Anne Heche).
But Laura has problems of her own--including professional insecurities and dwindling
sexual interest in her nice-guy fiancé. Not by any means a sidesplitting Generation X
comedy, Walking and Talking is the sort of film that relies on bittersweet irony to
generate sympathy for its characters. Director Nicole Holofcener leans heavily on the
intrinsic pathos, alienation, and insecurity of young adulthood, employing the
obligatory well-screened answering machines, meaningless telephone relationships,
and lonely nights of video rentals to make her point. Without question, Holofcener
should have spent more time elaborating the relationship between her characters--we're
never sure why they put up with each other, or why any of them became friends in the
first place. We're shown the dysfunctional side of these relationships, but never
given a reason to understand them as anything other than hopelessly compromised.
Nevertheless, the performances (particularly Heche's) are always heartfelt,
the writing is bright without resorting to cleverness, and almost every scene
strains admirably for meaning and resonance.
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