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					Originally Posted by  Strangler Lewis
					 
				 
				It's a rare pleasure to find a famous actor who disappears into a variety of roles and whose tics and tricks you don't recognize.  Kate Winslet comes to mind among women.  Sean Penn and Jim Broadbent among men. 
			
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 I agree on Winslet and, especially, Jim Broadbent.  May I derail this to refer to Emmy Awards for 2007 and I feel that if he does not win for Longford, it will be a crime.  Grim story, but he was marvelous.  In this case playing an IRL person, but someone I don't know jack about.  A remarkable actor, who raises up the quality of the worst crap (okay, not the horrible Bridget Jones sequel, at least he was only required to do a drive by on that piece of crap).
Sean Penn, Mystic River was agonizing for me.