Holly Hunter News

Running time: 1 hr. 59 min. MPAA Rating: PG Critic's Rating: 4 stars Overall Rating: 4 stars By JOHN WIRT Movie critic Published: Oct 16, 2009 Baton Rouge and many other cities rarely get to experience art films these days.

Published Wednesday 14 October 2009 09:57pm EST. There is something deeply unsettling about Ada McGrath, the heroine of Jane Campion's 1993 film "The Piano." It is not so much her voluntary silence that unnerves us - Holly Hunter's performance is so effortless and convincing that she makes speech seem superfluous.

Jane Campion's women are born to freeze and burn simultaneously. Most of the New Zealand director's protagonists are the marginalized, caught in webs of family woe like Ada in The Piano , mute though passionately intense about the one thing her husband forbids her.

From "The Piano" to "In the Cut," writer-director Jane Campion always puts strong women characters at the center of her films.

An animated movie about saving the ecosystem? We haven't seen that before. . . Actually we have, but "Happy Feet" puts a new spin on the ecology message: It adds a huge measure of angst to animation.

If it's Thursday, this must be the mailbag . . . Q: Holly Hunter in ''Saving Grace'' and Timothy Hutton in ''Leverage'' are said to be Academy Award winners.

The Homecoming ... Holly Hunter's character in Broadcast News was inspired to illustrate an item with a painting of that title but I'm sure the painting shown in the film was outdoors and involved steps to a verandah ... anyhow we love Norman.

Feisty, reckless and rootless women increasingly dominate pop culture. Jane Austen and the doyens of decorum would be aghast, shocked, shamed and horrified by the female protagonists who have taken TV, novels, film and music by storm.

Feisty, reckless and rootless women increasingly dominate pop culture. Jane Austen and the doyens of decorum would be aghast, shocked, shamed and horrified by the female protagonists who have taken TV, novels, film and music by storm.

Who says hot girls have to be dumb? These days, the small screen is filled with women who not only bowl you over with their beauty, but they can bedazzle you with their brains.

Who says hot girls have to be dumb? These days, the small screen is filled with women who not only bowl you over with their beauty, but they can bedazzle you with their brains.

Ten bucks says they fall in love, but with hilarious consequences. Twenty years ago-almost to the day-American moviegoers were introduced to Sally Albright in Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally.

Grace Hanadarko is a party girl compared to her sister Rhetta on TNT's Saving Grace.

Academy Award -winning actress Holly Hunter takes on the role of a cynical police detective facing a personal crisis of divine proportions in the provocative new drama series SAVING ... more US Release: 2007 UK Release: Kathy Baker to guest star on 'Saving Grace' Nokia says NO to Android smartphone Month of Twitter Bugs - holiday roundup George ...

IN HER first scene in her first television series, Holly Hunter sits, buck naked, astride a man who is married but not to her character.

TNT caters to difficult women. Holly Hunter plays an alcoholic, oversexed detective on 'Saving Grace.' On 'The Closer' Kyra Sedgwick is a self-centered, overbearing deputy police chief with a secret craving for sweets.

Comedy, Adventure, Crime George Clooney, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Joel Coen, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Tim Blake Nelson, John Turturro Set in the 1920s, this story follows the exploits of three escaped convicts who are on the trail of hidden loot.

Saving Grace: Season Two debuting on DVD June 16th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Starring: Maria Bello as Nancy Stockwell Jason Patric as Louis Farley Rufus Sewell as Albert Stockwell Amy Brenneman - Carol, Nancy's psychiatrist Story : An emotionally disturbed woman meets a man online and they form a pact that he will end her life for her.

Crazy In Love : Monday, 19:30, TCM Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Gena Rowlands play in this fine drama about a family of women who have suffered through the infidelities of their partners.