Matthew Broderick's self-loather tries to help a hooker. Should we laugh or cry?
di Mark Olsen The Los Angeles Times
A television writer (Matthew Broderick), holding on to a job at a sitcom no one seems to like, struggles to keep his drinking, drugging and gambling at bay. In a desperate, last-ditch ploy to save his marriage -- which it goes without saying is on the rocks -- he heads to Las Vegas. To find his niece. Who is a hooker. Except she likes her job and doesn't want to leave. Hilarity ensues?
The recent film "Michael Clayton," about a lawyer well-paid to clean up the messes of others, could easily be read as an allegory of self-examination by its creator, Tony Gilroy, a longtime Hollywood script doctor. [...]
di Mark Olsen, articolo completo (2497 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 27 giugno 2008
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