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Second Best

2005, Movie, NR, 86 mins

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Former advertising executive Eric Weber's up-close look at the corrosive effects of failure features a fine cast playing a godforsaken gaggle of sour, self-pitying schlubs. Once an up-and-coming editor in a New York City publishing house, Elliot Kelman (Joe Pantoliano) wound up crawling back, tail between his legs, to the small New Jersey town where he was born. He lives on alimony from his ex-wife, successful therapist Paula (Polly Draper), who's remarried to a prosperous ne... read more leave a comment
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Heart warming story of a shy, single postman who adopts a boy with a troubled past. Together they discover families are not born, they're made.
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Length: 01:58
Posted: 3/17/2008
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In order to adopt a troubled young boy, a lonely, unmarried mail clerk must prove that he is emotionally qualified to love and nurture a child. He struggles to win the boy over, demonstrating that, simply by being present and caring, he is a better parent that the boy's absent father.
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Academy Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee William Hurt ("Syriana," "The Village") stars in this touching story about a lonely, unmarried mail clerk who must prove that he is emotionally qualified to love and nurture a troubled young boy before he is allowed to adopt him. His struggle to win the boy over demonstrates that simply by being present and caring, he is a better parent than the boy's own absent father, who was sent to prison not long after the boy's mother died. Also starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner John Hurt ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "The Skeleton Key"), and directed by Academy Award-winner Chris Menges ("The Mission," "The Killing Fields"). The Hollywood Reporter calls this "an entirely first-rate drama... a quietly powerful film," and The Los Angeles Times says it is "Splendid. Perfect. Richly realized."
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Length: 01:46:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
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Academy Award-winner and Golden Globe-nominee William Hurt ("Syriana," "The Village") stars in this touching story about a lonely, unmarried mail clerk who must prove that he is emotionally qualified to love and nurture a troubled young boy before he is allowed to adopt him. His struggle to win the boy over demonstrates that simply by being present and caring, he is a better parent than the boy's own absent father, who was sent to prison not long after the boy's mother died. Also starring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner John Hurt ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "The Skeleton Key"), and directed by Academy Award-winner Chris Menges ("The Mission," "The Killing Fields"). The Hollywood Reporter calls this "an entirely first-rate drama... a quietly powerful film," and The Los Angeles Times says it is "Splendid. Perfect. Richly realized."
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Length: 01:46:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
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Year: 2005
Rated NR

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Cast
Joe Pantoliano: Elliot Kelman
Boyd Gaines: Richard Sherman
Peter Gerety: Marshall
Bronson Pinchot: Doc Klingenstein
Matthew Arkin: Gerald
Jennifer Tilly: Carole

 

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