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May 14, 2018 · Melodrama tends to get a bad rep these days, and not without good reason. Certainly, melodrama – that is, sensational drama; exaggerated, flat characters; farcically exciting events; and extreme responses and actions – can often come at the expense of those other aspects of fiction that make your book worth reading: deep characters, subtext, complex
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Tired of struggling to be an actress, Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) leaves New York and returns to her Michigan home. She has a cash advance from a book editor who wants to publish the love ...
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Jun 15, 2006 · Winter Passing: Directed by Adam Rapp. With Zooey Deschanel, Darrell Larson, John Bedford Lloyd, Deirdre O'Connell. An editor offers actress/bartender Reese $100,000 for her late mom's letters from her novelist dad.
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- Adam Rapp
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Although tediously slow at points, “Winter Passing” has a purveyingly powerful familial dynamic from start to finish. Questions are asked and answered and life comes full circle. Winter passes and then comes the Spring. Everything always looks brighter in the Spring. Reese: Zooey Deschanel Corbit: Will Ferrell Shelly: Amelia Warner
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health ...
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- Yari Film Group, Stratus Film Co.
- Adam Rapp
A film that feels like it will take forever to pass. Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2006. Luke Y. Thompson New Times. What's real and true about Winter Passing is the relationship ...
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Scholarship on Melodrama: A Brief Overview . The turn to melodrama as a serious topic of study began about fifty years ago. Peter Brooks’s The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976) attracted a great deal of attention and is still highly (and rightly) influential today, not only for its argument that melodrama is ‘the principal mode for ...
