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"Opens: Friday 5/6 \r\nUs Rating: *** \r\nMel Gibson plays Walter, a seriously depressed exec, in this insightful dark comedy. Kicked out by his wife (Jodie Foster), he finds a ratty puppet in a dumpster and -- yikes -- starts talking through it like a ventriloquist uses a dummy. Gibson excels as a man fighting mental illness, managing to project anguish even in the company of the stuffed animal. But the tightly wound Foster is less believable in her role -- and their sex scene (which includes the puppet!) is just too awkward to watch.\r\n-- THELMA ADAMS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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