On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:19 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> First, that my daughter was an associate producer for it (her company also
> made Juno); but when I saw it, I liked it far more than I had to, so to
> speak.
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> Talking to the director about how it was made, I came to think that it
> represents a sort of aesthetic (and generally non-theoretical)
> anti-capitalism; the result is one of the only films so far about the Great
> Recession. (Jeff St. Clair compares it to the work of Preston Sturges.) It
> also has two brilliant actors, from whom director Jason Reitman elicits
> amazing performances. And he really wrote the thing, too.
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