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Title: Give Her a Star
Review: Ford has often been given interesting and exciting roles, but he has never been an interesting or exciting actor. He always looks surprised at his success, and I'll bet he really is. The 'why me?' syndrome is written all over his face - when there's any believable expression there at all. But he's actually worse here than in anything else I've seen him in. (Admittedly, his part is that of a hopeless jerk, which doesn't help.)Scott-Thomas is always wonderful, even in this, but rarely can she lift a mediocre film up all by herself. As Mr. Winslow says in "The Winslow Boy", it's a "forlorn quest." The second star is for her. If Amazon offered a zero star option, this would rate one star.There's one long scene of a conversation between Ford and Scott-Thomas in her Washington home that was obviously shot by each actor on a different day. Ford's body-double must be a more animated actor than Ford because Scott-Thomas plays the scene beautifully.
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