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Rated: PG-13; With: Tommy Lee Jones and Kathleen Turner

This story of a girl's retreat into silent creativity after her father's death is stingy with scientific explanation but not with the easy manipulations only a sickly child plot can provide. As the heroic psychiatrist, Tommy Lee Jones, normally electrifying, seems slightly doped; the gutsy Kathleen Turner, playing the resourceful mom, is more breathless than usual in House of Cards. The result is film as wood veneer -- convincing on the surface, but fake underneath.


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Posted Dec 10, 1993
 

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