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In small-town Ontario during World War II, naive teenager Jeannie Dougall (Carol Kane) gets pregnant by rape and beleaguered by her family in the harrowing sociological drama Wedding in White (1972, William Fruet).
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One of our finest actresses, Miranda Richardson, in a dazzling triple role in the disquieting psychological character study Spider (2002, David Cronenberg; pictured with Gabriel Byrne and Bradley Hall). Some critical context:
“A triumph of both quality and quantity, Richardson gives a nightmarish triptych of performances as, alternately, the mother of Ralph Fiennes’s mentally hollowed protagonist, his father’s mistress and his present-day landlady, vividly embodying an entire, terrorising wall of femininity in his psyche. Favored for the Best Actress award at Cannes, she emerged from the festival with no prize, but a cloud of Oscar buzz that vanished into thin air. A shame; it’s her best screen work.” — Guy Lodge, Hitfix(August 2012)
“This slow but brilliantly sustained journey into madness is fronted by a remarkable performance from Ralph Fiennes and superb backup from Miranda Richardson in a triple role… Richardson shows her range, depicting Mrs. Cleg as a woman sadly hanging onto hope, still trying to pretend she has some kind of satisfying family life despite her errant husband’s surliness; her Yvonne is trashy, vulgar, graceless and totally without morals, in the latter scenes injecting that same brassy sexuality into Mrs. Wilkinson’s cold authoritarian manner.” — David Rooney, Variety (May 2002)
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Toni Collette relives the scariest, most intense moments from Hereditary (Vulture, June 2018); photos by Amanda Demme
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Debra Winger looking very classical Hollywood as wartime prostitute Suzy DeSoto in Cannery Row (1982, David S. Ward)
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Holly Hunter at her most eccentric, as androgynous Swiss spiritual guru GJ in the first season of the New Zealand-set murder mystery series Top of the Lake (2013, Jane Campion & Garth Davis)
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Toni Collette in a BAFTA-nominated supporting turn as depressed hippie single mother Fiona Brewer in the British coming-of-age dramedy About a Boy (2002, Chris & Paul Weitz)
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Reluctant wartime prostitute Suzy DeSoto (Debra Winger) strikes unlikely sparks with ballplayer turned marine biologist Doc (Nick Nolte) in the quirky John Steinbeck adaptation Cannery Row (1982, David S. Ward)
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