| dour guilt-ridden characters populating the
| imagination - we saw the movie, deserves
| a drubbing. a reminder as to how tired the
| socially acceptable, politically correct
| and morally satisfying ideas of the
| humane-sustainable mafia really are...
The Architect
1:21 R (for language and some sexual content)
B-
Genre: Drama
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden
Panettiere, Sebastian Stan
Director: Matt Tauber
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Leo Waters is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent,
suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley is a pragmatic activist who is
trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city's
most drug and crime-infested public housing projects. As part of her
ongoing campaign to have the projects torn down and decent housing built
in its place, Tonya decides that the one signature she needs more than
any other on her petition is that of the projects' original architect,
Leo Waters.
MOVIE REVIEW
'The Architect' still needs work
By Joe Williams
The Architect | B- (R; 1:22): Frank Zappa said writing about music is
like dancing about architecture. In other words, every art form is a
self-contained statement. But architecture is the most public and
practical of the arts, so it ought to be amendable to analysis.
"The Architect" has the laudable goal of dramatizing how physical spaces
affect the quality of our lives. It ends up telling us little about
architecture, but a solid cast manages to tells us something about an
art form called acting.
Anthony LaPaglia plays a Chicago architect who once designed a housing
project, now rife with crime. When a crusading tenant (Viola Davis) asks
him to sign a petition to have the place demolished, he pleads that it's
not his problem. He's got enough problems of his own: a brittle,
perfectionist wife (Isabella Rossellini), a closeted gay son (Sebastien
Stan) and a floozy teen daughter (Hayden Panettiere). Several of their
crises intersect at the housing project with those of some relatively
underwritten black characters.
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