DVD REVIEWS: Wake up to skinny Bale.(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: September 22, 2006 | Copyright information

The Machinist ****

Prism Leisure

Cert: 15

RRP: pounds 5.99

What some people will do for their art.

In the case of Christian Bale, it was losing 63 pounds to play the part of Trevor Reznik, an emaciated skeleton of a factory machine operator who's also the ultimate insomniac - he hasn't slept for a year.

Time away from work is spent with regular visits to the airport coffee shop to be served by Marie (Aitana Sanche...

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