The Dying Gaul.(Movie review)(Brief article)

From: Interview | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: Mitsuda, Kristi | Copyright information

(Strand) Directed by Craig Lucas

Craig Lucas's cool, casually venomous adaptation of his own play The Dying Gaul depicts the ever spiraling tension between smooth Hollywood mogul Jeffrey (a deliciously unctuous Campbell Scott), his deceptively kind wife Elaine (the inimitable Patricia Clarkson), and a fragil...

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