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Archives 1996 | R: ARCHIVE, S: REVIEWS, D: 08/15/1996, (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Blondie O'Hara (Jennifer Jason Leigh, doing strange things with her mouth -- are those fake teeth?), posing as her manicurist sister Babe (Brooke Smith), pays a visit on opiate-addicted client Carolyn Stilton (Miranda Richardson, a master at seeming enigmatic), whose powerful-politician husband, Henry (Michael Murphy), is an adviser to President Roosevelt. |
 | | Blondie is kidnapping Carolyn, she explains, to pressure Henry into using his influence to get her husband, Johnny (Dermot Mulroney), out of the clutches of the gambler Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte). |
 | | As Blondie, who admits that her role model is Jean Harlow, Leigh is put in the less than satisfying position of being an actress playing a character who's playing an actress. |
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