Does it count as representational progress when a drama about the fissures that destroy a gay marriage and the ensuing fight for primary custody of the couple’s child is just as bland as any heteronormative version of that sad story?
Bill Oliver’s Our Son boasts solid lead performances from Luke Evans and Billy Porter as the dads whose life together has hit a wall, plus a capable supporting cast stacked with talented theater actors. The movie is tasteful and restrained and sensitively handled at every step. But unless you count one of the men finding post-breakup sexual distraction wrapped around a slinky club kid named Solo (Isaac Powell), there’s too little here to distinguish the film from endless other broken-family dramas that have gone before.
There’s even less to put it on a level with standouts like Kramer vs. Kramer, The Squid and the Whale or Marriage Story.
Bill Oliver’s Our Son boasts solid lead performances from Luke Evans and Billy Porter as the dads whose life together has hit a wall, plus a capable supporting cast stacked with talented theater actors. The movie is tasteful and restrained and sensitively handled at every step. But unless you count one of the men finding post-breakup sexual distraction wrapped around a slinky club kid named Solo (Isaac Powell), there’s too little here to distinguish the film from endless other broken-family dramas that have gone before.
There’s even less to put it on a level with standouts like Kramer vs. Kramer, The Squid and the Whale or Marriage Story.
- 6/10/2023
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Photo Flash: First Look at Emily Donahoe and Kathleen Chalfant in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane at Yale Rep
Yale Repertory Theatre concludes its 50th Anniversary Season with the world premiere of Mary Jane by Amy Herzog, directed by Anne Kauffman, nowthrough May 20 at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel Street. Opening Night is Friday, May 5. The cast of Mary Jane includes Kathleen Chalfant, Emily Donahoe, Vella Lovell, Miriam Silverman, and Shona Tucker. BroadwayWorld has a first look at them in action below...
- 5/5/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
It was Off-Broadway’s night on May 23 as the Obie Awards dished out recognition for some of the season’s top productions. The Danai Gurira–penned, Tony-nominated “Eclipsed,” which transferred to the John Golden Theatre from the Public Theatre earlier this year, took the best ensemble award while the star of the production about the wives of a Liberian Civil War rebel officer, Lupita Nyong’o, took best actress. Playwright Lucas Hnath took home Obies for both “Red Speedo” and “The Christians,” as did Stephen Karam for his work on “The Humans,” another 2016 Tony nominee that transferred to Broadway. The Tony-nominated actor Jayne Houdyshell, who plays the matriarch in the the latter eerie Thanksgiving eve family drama, won for her performance, as did Georgia Engel (“John”), Khris Davis (“The Royals”), Tamara Tunie (“Familiar”), Ben Platt (“Dear Evan Hansen”), Lucas Caleb Rooney (“Red Speedo”), Emily Donahoe (“The Christians”), and “Guards at...
- 5/24/2016
- backstage.com
The first four seasons of Homeland have been a wild ride.
Terrorist plots, unexpected betrayals and executions have made for a plethora of memorable goodbyes on the Showtime series.
So before we reunite with Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) for Sunday's season 5 premiere, take a look back at all of Homeland's bombshell farewells that left us astonished.
Tom Walker
How he died: After regrouping following their botched suicide bomb attack in the season 1 finale, Nicholas Brody (Damien Lewis) and fellow former Marine Tom Walker (Chris Chalk) had mastermind Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) on the phone. Nazir ordered Brody to shoot Walker,...
Terrorist plots, unexpected betrayals and executions have made for a plethora of memorable goodbyes on the Showtime series.
So before we reunite with Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) for Sunday's season 5 premiere, take a look back at all of Homeland's bombshell farewells that left us astonished.
Tom Walker
How he died: After regrouping following their botched suicide bomb attack in the season 1 finale, Nicholas Brody (Damien Lewis) and fellow former Marine Tom Walker (Chris Chalk) had mastermind Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) on the phone. Nazir ordered Brody to shoot Walker,...
- 10/4/2015
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- People.com - TV Watch
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