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Article: Nell.
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- February 6, 1995
- Author:
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IT WOULD be hard to find a more self-serving, fatuous, and totally useless film than Nell, co-produced by its star, Jodie Foster, as the ultimate ego trip. It deals with a young girl, Nell, who grows up in the Carolina wilderness. The only language she speaks is something private and incomprehensible she has derived from the speech of her mother. (Being illegitimate, she had no father around. This mother had had a stroke, and spoke a kind of gibberish--rather like that mumbled after a stroke by Sir Anthony Hopkins in Legends of the Fall, which, along with Mixed Nuts, is one of the two foulest of the current crop of movies.
The genesis of Nell was this: "In 1989, ...
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...Byline: FRAN BOWDEN STUNNING Nell McAndrew has had some odd assignments in ... results, as you can see, are amazing. Nell, a guest presenter on TV's The Big Breakfast ... dress out of a newspaper, but it fits Nell perfectly thank goodness!" Nell says ...
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