Alex House Movies
- 2006
Originally telecast on Canada's YTV beginning January 8, 2006, the weekly CGI series Jane and the Dragon was a lighthearted medieval romp featuring (what else?) a girl named Jane and a dragon. Though slated to be groomed as a lady-in-waiting, feisty 13-year-old Jane chose instead to be trained as a valiant knight--and managed to get that training despite the fact that knighthood was an honor exclusively confined to males. The Dragon, an outwardly fierce, fire-breathing creature, was actually Jane's best friend, restraining himself from traditional dragonly behavior because he owed the girl a favor. Based on a children's book by Martin Baynton, Jane and the Dragon was brought to the United States as a component of NBC's Saturday-morning cartoon manifest beginning January 8, 2006. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Following up on her 1998 opus Bedrooms and Hallways, Rose Troche directs this ensemble film about suburbia and its discontents. Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold (Joshua Jackson) now lies in a coma, attentively nursed by his mother Esther (Glenn Close), who dotes on her son to the exclusion of her husband and her daughter Julie (Jessica Campbell). Meanwhile, Jim Train (Dermot Mulroney) is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan (Moira Kelly). Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's foot-high girl doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings (Patricia Clarkson) is trying to pull her life and her family back together after a particularly brutal divorce. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, (more)
