Marley & Me : Movie Review


Whenever a movie -- particularly one in which animals are involved -- makes me cry, I knuckle down and ask myself some serious questions, and not just out of professional duty: Were those tears coaxed out via cheap tactics on the part of the filmmaker? Or did he or she earn them the honest way, through artful writing, careful casting, and an understanding of how to work with performers so they hit some emotional truth?

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Author : Stephanie Zacharek