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White Palace (1990)
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Glenn Savan's depressing and self-loathing novel about a 27-year-old upper-class Jewish widower mired in self-pity after his beloved wife dies, and who finds love and sexual rebirth with a trailer-trash older woman, was brought to the big screen by the competent director Luis Mandoki (When a Man Loves a Woman, Message in a Bottle). But the savage irony in Savan's book has been face-lifted by screenwriters Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs) and Alvin Sargent (Ordinary People) into something else entirely: what passes for low-rent "slumming" in Hollywood means hiring sexy Susan Sarandon to play Nora Baker, the...
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White Palace Movie Review by Zara  (10/14/2007) |
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I would not have appreciated this movie as much as I did watching it today if I'd watched it when I was younger and had less life experience. While a lot of the romance that goes on in the film is dated by its late '80's, early '90's veneer, as well as being a little hokey at times with its constant references to Marilyn...
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