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Partners
A consummate study in tedium further hindered by some bizarre casting.
Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is drummed out of his high-profile University career on a trumped up racism charge. His wife then buys the farm in short order, leaving him understandably upset but his new-found friendship with emotionally damaged author Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) rebuilds him somewhat. Embarking on an affair with foul mouthed cleaner Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman), their stormy relationship and 's psychotic ex-husband Lester Farley (Ed Harris) prompt haunting memories of Silk's troubled past to resurface. The most troubling thing about it being that he looks so utterly unlike his younger self (played by Wentworth Miller, perhaps the only bright spot amongst the tedium) it scuppers the whole premise. The point of it all rather escapes me, and it doesn't even have the decency to be entertaining as it flails around grasping for credibility. With excruciatingly lethargic pacing, uninspired dialogue and a silly plot there's little to recommend it unless you really want to see Kidman attempt dialogue with a crow.
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