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Article: Peter Fonda comeback is well-crafted, well-acted.(VARIETY)(Review) (movie review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 27, 1997
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Peter Fonda hits the comeback mother lode in "Ulee's Gold," an expertly acted, exquisitely scripted drama about love, family and heroism.
If there were anyone primed for a comeback, it's Fonda. Sure, baby boomers will remember him forever for "Easy Rider." But there's an entire generation of under-30 filmgoers who know him only as the father of actress Bridget Fonda.
Not that "Ulee's Gold" is likely to go head-to-head with the special-effects orgies dominating the box-office reports. It's the antithesis of those big, noisy summer spectaculars. It's small, quiet and intimate.
Fonda plays the terse title character, Ulysses, a wounded war veteran ...