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Article: Kidman, Leigh deliver fierce performances in 'Margot'

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December 1, 2007
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Fasten your seat belts and check the airbags.

The defining metaphor of "Margot at the Wedding," Noah Baumbach's dysfunctional-family seriocomedy, is a battle-scarred Volvo with faulty brakes.

It's an apt symbol for this family of emotional roadhogs who don't know how to stop, and if they did, wouldn't have the equipment to do so without leaving skid marks.

For some time, Margot (Nicole Kidman) has been estranged from her sister, Pauline (Jennifer Jason Leigh). And with good reason. It seems that Margot, a writer of cult repute, appropriated Pauline's marital woes for a short story that helped end the latter's first marriage.

Now that Pauline is about to marry Malcolm (Jack Black), a self- ...

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