This reviewer is not a reviewer, nor is she a critic or a cinephile or anything serious and academic related to film. She just really likes going to the cinema.
Okay, speaking in the third person is over. It feels weird.
I love Robin Williams, his hotness is an island in the sea of normal hot people. He is especially hot in [tag]The Night Listener[/tag], a movie about a radio presenter (Gabriel Noone) who finds himself alone after his partner moves out, and finds himself embarking on a telephone friendship with a young boy (Pete Logand) who has written about his painful childhood of sex abuse, and is, tragically, dying of AIDS.
The first thing that got me was the look in Gabriel’s eyes when he saw Jess moving more stuff out of his house. Wow. I almost cried seeing the pain.
(I’m pretty easily affected by emotion in films. It’s kinda fun.)
Okay, spoilers now.
The first really obvious clue that Pete may not have ever existed was when he said his stepmother Donna did not approve of his swearing, but when Gabriel first met her, she was ‘fuck’ this and ‘fucking’ that. Toni Collette was pretty amazing, she did the fairly-controlled maniac thing really well.
Um, that’s really about it. I love watching movies, and The Night Listener was totally worth it. Plus I have movie vouchers so I only had to pay for my snacks. Next week I want to go see Little Miss Sunshine. I’ve discovered I like Toni Collette quite a lot as well, ever since I saw her in Hotel Splendide (and that’s the first time I saw Daniel Craig, who I think is pretty hot, too, but not in a shaggable way).