Robin Wright played Buttercup in The Princess Bride at twenty-one, and spent the following decades deliberately moving away from it.
Forrest Gump gives her Jenny, a difficult role the film treats poorly, and she plays it with more sympathy than the writing offers.
House of Cards gave her Claire Underwood and a directing career, and she has since directed features. Wonder Woman gave her Antiope, and she performed substantial fight choreography at fifty.
Gary SiniseForrest Gump (1994) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A technically remarkable film with a genuinely great performance at its center and a politics it has spent thirty years being argued about, which beat Pulp Fiction and…
Brad PittBennett Miller's 2011 baseball analytics drama. Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Jonah Hill as Peter Brand.
Chris PineWonder Woman 1984 is the sequel to Patty Jenkins's 2017 Wonder Woman and one of the steepest critical reversals in modern superhero cinema. Jenkins directed and co-wrote with Geoff Johns and Dave Callaham.
Chris PineAllan Heinberg wrote the screenplay from a story by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs. Patty Jenkins had previously directed Monster in 2003, the production that won Charlize Theron her Academy Award for Best Actress.
Cary ElwesThe Princess Bride is one of the most quoted films in American popular culture and one of the most enduring family films of the past forty years. The Princess Bride extended his range into family adventure territory that his previous…
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