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Article: Out of father's shadow and going for gold; The Fonda you thought had disappeared without trace is back with the be st performance of his career. Mike Davies went to meet him.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1998
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After former Easy Rider co-star Jack Nicholson ironically walked away with the Best Actor Award, nominee Peter Fonda may still remain the only member of the legendary acting clan not to have won an Oscar, but that doesn't detract from the fact that he's given the performance of his career in Ulee's Gold.
Written and directed (not to mention produced, edited and filmed) by Victor Nunez, it's the story of Ulysses Jackson, a middle-aged Vietnam war veteran who, devastated by his wife's death six years earlier and the imprisonment of his son for armed robbery, has ...