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Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., Famke Janssen, Embeth Davidtz
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Gingerbread Man |
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Based on a John Grisham story, THE GINGERBREAD MAN is a movie directed by Robert Altman in 1998.
Kenneth Branagh is a successful lawyer who's seduced one night by Embeth Davidtz. In spite of the reluctance of his partner Daryl Hannah, Branagh accepts to take Davidtz's case and help her locking up her father Robert Duvall in a mental hospital. But Duvall escapes and Branagh fears that Duvall might take revenge on Davidtz and on him. When his own children are kidnapped, Branagh forgets his ethical principles, takes a gun and decides to make his own justice. But is Duvall really guilty ? Hasnt' Branagh been set up ?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Gingerbread Man |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Scandal
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- sex with client/patient
Blackmail & Seduction?
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- lawyer creature
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- a lawyer creature
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
Forest?
Yes
Water?
Yes
Water:
- peddle boat
- drowning
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- school
- bar
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing full frontal--women
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
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