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Werth: Hello, Doctor Lecter.

Wise: Did I eat someone and non know information technology?

Werth: I'm practicing my Jodie Foster fake for this week's Film Gab.

Wise: She and Matt Damon headline one of the most-hyped releases this week, Elysium. Looking at her, it'southward hard to believe she's been a movie star for over xl years.

Werth: One of her earliest successes was 1976's The Little Girl Who Lives Downwards the Lane. Foster plays the ultimate latch-key kid, Rynn, a bright 13 twelvemonth. old who doesn't seem to accept any parental supervision. She spends her time combing the embankment, doing the NY Times crossword puzzle, learning Hebrew, and reading Emily Dickinson.

Wise: That sounds like my perfect summer vacation.

Werth: Soon uppity landlord Mrs. Hallett (the domineering Alexis Smith) begins to suspect that Rynn's poet father is not taking a nap or working in his office and confronts the self-reliant, Rynn.

Rynn has an ace up her sleeve, however, in that Mrs. Hallett'due south son Frank (Martin Sheen keeping information technology creepy) is a suspected pedophile, and he'due south been stopping by to compliment Rynn'south hair a little likewise often.

Wise: I love a good pilus compliment.

Werth: The pic is a great tiresome-burn thriller that unfolds as we find out what Rynn is hiding, and how she'south going to go on to hide it. A petty romantic spark is added by Mario (Scott Jacoby before he played Dorothy'southward son Michael Zbornak on the Aureate Girls) a crippled magician who seems overeager both every bit a character and an actor.

What really makes this motion-picture show watchable is 15 yr. erstwhile Foster, who plays Rynn as a footling developed—wise beyond her years and more clever than the grown-ups around her. '76 was a big year for Foster. She starred in Disney striking Freaky Friday and got an Oscar nom for Taxi Commuter, cementing her image every bit a immature actress who wasn't afraid of a challenge.

And she courted controversy in Footling Daughter by getting naked on camera earlier sliding into bed with her boyfriend. It's shocking to see someone and so young take that kind of risk, but it wasn't really Foster. Her nude scenes in both Little Girl and Taxi Commuter were performed by her torso double, older sister Connie Foster.

Wise: Potent family resemblances also inform i of Foster's afterward movies Panic Room (2002).  She stars as Meg Altman, a recently divorced woman who buys a brownstone on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she and her daughter Sarah (a pre-Twilight Kristen Stewart) promise to reside in peace.  The firm previously belonged to a reclusive millionaire whose grandson, Junior (Jared Leto), believes that the old human had millions of dollars hidden in the titular safe room.  He assembles a crew—Forest Whitaker as Burnham and Dwight Yoakam as Raoul—to break into the house and steal dorsum the money.  His plans are disrupted past the presence of One thousand thousand and Sarah, and what was planned as a simple breaking and entering erupts into an all-out war.

Werth: Breaking and entering: the gateway drug to crime.

Wise: The film is David Fincher's follow-up to Fight Guild (1999), and he uses some of the aforementioned visual tricks—sinuous

camera moves, jump cuts, and off-kilter angles—to keep the tensions rising, although Panic Room lacks some of the humor of its predecessor.  Leto has some amusing bits every bit a spoiled rich kid, merely once the activity gets going, almost all sense of lightness is lost.  He and his henchmen gradually become more and more than bloodthirsty equally 1000000 prevents them from getting the coin and eventually they devolve into anarchy.  There'south something deeply horrifying about these bad guys that taints the residue of the flick, and no matter how righteous Meg's revenge, their depravity lingers like a bad aroma.

Werth: I'1000 nevertheless trying to get over the corn rows.

Wise: Some critics have hailed Panic Room equally a feminist breakthrough; instead of beingness a victim of home invaders, 1000000 fights dorsum.  It makes sense with Foster in the part, although the pic could have turned out very differently. Nicole Kidman was originally cast as One thousand thousand, but she had to driblet out of the production because of an injury, prompting a major rewrite of the script to reflect the change from Kidman'south glamorous and fragile characterization to Foster's more stouthearted one.  Foster is

always best when her characters are driven into some untenable situation and she has to assert her own powers to claw her way back to normalcy.  Panic Room seems to provide the perfect opportunity for that, although the movie never quite gels.  Foster's kick-assery will have yous auspicious even if she doesn't quite save the rest of the motion picture.

Werth: Chicka chicka chickabee.

Wise: Perhaps you improve salvage your Nell impersonation for next calendar week's Film Gab.

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