Article: ALLEN ADDS NEW COLOR TO HER PALETTE OF ROLES.(Spotlight)

Byline: Robert Denerstein, Rocky Mountain News

Think of Joan Allen and you're likely to find yourself with serious thoughts.

The 48-year-old actress and three-time Oscar nominee has played a CIA agent (The Bourne Supremacy), a senator(The Contender), a lonely wife (The Ice Storm), a woman caught in a witch hunt (The Crucible) and Pat Nixon (Nixon).

But Allen can paint with a broader brush than such movies suggest. In the upcoming The Upside of Anger, which opens in Denver area theaters Friday, Allen plays a suburban woman who believes that her husband has left her for his voluptuous Swedish secretary.

The role allows Allen to reach new ...

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