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Article: Acting rises above this bad `Manners'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 13, 1997
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BAD MANNERS
Directed by Jonathan Kaufer (USA)
Sometimes good acting is enough to carry you through the rigors
of a wordy, overwrought drama. Such is the case with this "Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" wannabe, which is adapted from a stage
play called "Ghost in the Machine." As the two couples spending four
battle-torn days together in a Cambridge home, David Strathairn,
Bonnie Bedelia, Saul Rubinek, and Caroleen Feeney rise far above the
contrived script, which has their characters shifting loyalties and
shooting barbs at time-lapse speed. Why are these unhappy wits
spending more than an hour in one another's company? Some questions
are better left unasked.
Strathairn is always ...