Among Giants (1999) A Capsule Review by Nathaniel R. Atcheson
Director: Sam Miller Cast: Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths, James Thornton Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy Producers: Stephen Garrett Runtime: 94 min. US Distribution: Fox Searchlight Pictures Rated R: language, sex, nudity
Copyright 1998 Nathaniel R. Atcheson
Visually interesting but emotionally vacuous, Sam Miller's Among Giants stars Pete Postlethwaite as a painter who falls in love with a tomboy (Rachel Griffiths). Postlethwaite and Griffiths are both good, but the love story is too inconsequential to gather any kind of momentum (and the film is far too short to develop the characters adequately). There's also an extended scene in the middle that features gratuitous frontal nudity of both characters, and it's more likely to elicit laughs than anything else. But Among Giants is still very pretty to look at, thanks to Miller's majestic direction, and the colorful group of supporting characters is at least marginally interesting.
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Nathaniel R. Atcheson
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