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This movie is about the life of Barney Panofsky (outstandingly played by Paul Giamatti), a man who drinks a little too much, smokes a little too much and is a little too outspoken. The focus is on Barney’s three marriages, especially the third one, Miriam (played by Rosamund Pike).
Each marriage has it’s problems, and most of them are due to Barney’s nastiness. As he leaves each marriage and enters the next one we learn more about this man and why he acts the way he does. All of these experiences set up the final marriage, which is the most important and meaningful. The movie spends fully one third of it’s running time on his relationship with Miriam.
We watch as Barney tries not to make the same mistakes with Miriam as he did with the others. It is obvious that she is the life partner that he has been looking for all along, but as his actions begin to take a toll on the marriage the movie takes a surprising and moving final turn.
I can’t say enough how touching this movie is. The actors are all great, and to see Paul Giamatti in the same scenes as Dustin Hoffman is worth the trip to the theater in itself.
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Paul Giamatti = Barney Panofsky
Macha Grenon = Solange
Paul Gross = Constable O’Malley of the North
Atom Egoyan = O’Malley Director #1
Mark Camacho = T / U Productions Executive #1
David Pryde = T / U Productions Executive #2
Paula Jean Hixson = Bartender at Grumpy’s
Mark Addy = Detective O’Hearne
Scott Speedman = Boogie
Marica Pellegrinelli = ‘The Countess’
Thomas Trabacchi = Leo
Clé Bennett = Cedric
Rachelle Lefevre = Clara ‘Chambers’ Charnofsky
Domenico Minutoli = Judge at Rome Wedding
Massimo Wertmüller = Rome Doctor
Saul Rubinek = Charnofsky
Howard Jerome = Uncle Irv
Sam Stone = Fundraising Target #1
Burney Lieberman = Fundraising Target #2
Morty Bercovitch = Fundraising Target #3
Minnie Driver = The 2nd Mrs. P
Dustin Hoffman = Izzy Panofsky
Pauline Little = 2nd Mrs. P’s Housekeeper
Harvey Atkin = 2nd Mrs. P’s Father
Linda Sorenson = 2nd Mrs. P’s Mother
Robin Kazdan = Wedding Guest
Maury Chaykin = Wedding Guest
Larry Day = Bartender at Wedding
Sheila Hymans = Rabbi’s Wife
Len Richman = Rabbi
Rosamund Pike = Miriam Grant-Panofsky
Howard Rosenstein = Cousin Jeff
Ted Kotcheff = Train Conductor
Brittany Drisdelle = Girl at Cafe (as Brittany Lee Drisdelle)
Anna Hopkins = Kate Panofsky
David Cronenberg = O’Malley Director #2
Kyle Switzer = Production Assistant
Rebecca Croll = Receptionist #1
Steve Bienstock = NY Restaurant Waiter
Arthur Holden = Notary
Zack Kifell = Young Michael Panofsky
Simone Richler = Young Kate Panofsky
Bruce Greenwood = Blair
Jake Hoffman = Michael Panofsky
Denys Arcand = Jean The Maître’D at Ritz
Arthur Grosser = Mr. Dalhousie
Pascale Bourbeau = Woman at Cemetery
Ellen David = Massage Parlor Madame
Katia Di Perna = Masseuse
Marina Eva = Leo’s Girlfriend
Sandra Lavoie = Barney’s One Night Stand
Harry Standjofski = Dr. Morty
Ivana Shein = Receptionist #2
Mélanie St-Pierre = O’Malley’s New Co-Star
Tarah Schwartz = Reporter
Richard J. Lewis = Pathologist (as Richard Lewis)
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