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Commandments

1997, Movie, R, 87 mins

Commandments: Review

The music is portentous, the production design gloomy and the cinematography oppressively dreary. Seth Warner (Aidan Quinn) is a latter-day Job, a beleaguered New Yorker whose cosmic run of awful luck begins with the drowning of his beloved wife and ends with a freak tornado sweeping through his house. Naturally, when he takes to the rooftops to wail a cosmic wail of torment, he's struck by lightning. Seth's response to God's torments is to vow he'll break every one of the 1... read more leave a comment

Commandments: Cast & Details

Year: 1997
Rated R

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Cast
Aidan Quinn: Seth Warner
Courteney Cox: Rachel Luce
Anthony LaPaglia: Harry Luce
Shirl Bernheim: Sylvia
Peter Jacobson: Banker
Patrick Garner: Banker

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Commandments: TV Guide News

Rest in Pieces
Paying respect to our fallen TV heroes | Matt Roush | 4/5/2006
"What's with all the carnage lately?" a viewer e-mailed me recently. He has a point. The body count on TV this season has been unusually high. For some, these tragic twists seem like cheap stunts, a real turn-off. For me, they're a reason to tune in. Not because I'm blood thirsty. But on shows where the stakes are high — shows like 24, Lost, The Shield, The Sopranos, even a fantasy like Smallville — I expect to be taken out of my comfort zone into a world where bad things can happen at any time to characters we care about. Facing mortality is essential to any morality play. When Shannon was fatally shot by Ana Lucia on Lost, it cast a pall of suspicion and grief over the merging of the survivors. When Smallville's Clark Kent lost his beloved father figure Jonathan to a heart attack, it was a necessary rite of passage for this superhero-in-the-making. Nowhere has the death rate been higher than on 24 read more

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