Mary Reilly (1996)
Directed by Stephen Frears
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
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Blanchett’s aforementioned performance is absurd as she flip-flops accents more than Julia Roberts did in “Mary Reilly.”
Cinematographer Eduardo Serra ("Blood Diamond") and production designer Stuart Craig ("The English Patient," "Mary Reilly" and aboard the Potter train since the beginning) are the artists most to be congratulated for the achievement.
She's hasn't played a character this strident and charmless since "Mary Reilly," and she's never been photographed quite so unflatteringly.
Okay, Tess does look like Julia Roberts, but even that doesn�t matter much, since Roberts hasn�t been photographed this unflatteringly since Mary Reilly.
Don't allow his current reputation as a mounter of gloomy, expensive period pieces (Dangerous Liaisons and Mary Reilly) to deceive you: Stephen Frears was an ingenious choice of director for High Fidelity.
Maybe audiences will now forgive him for “Mary Reilly”.
The writers, producers, and star of the similarly engaging Grosse Pointe Blank (D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink, John Cusack) have joined forces with British director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly) for this hilarious and thought-provoking treatise, based on the book by Nick Hornby.