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Valerie Perrine was a very underappreciated actress


Everyone has praised, justly, Dustin Hoffman's performance in this film, but I haven't seen a lot about Valerie Perrine's performance which was, in my estimation, tremendous. It's almost as if she is invisible. Ms. Perrine didn't always get the best parts, but in this one film she shows what a great actress she was. Another good-looking blonde (slightly older) contemporary of hers, Lee Remick (Days Of Wine And Roses, Anatomy Of A Murder), was also a terrific actress. They seem to be more-or-less forgotten when the list of talented women actors are discussed these days, but they shouldn't be.

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This was definitely Perrine's best performance (her only Oscar nomination).

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She was great in this. And HOT too. Just sayin.

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She was great. But all I could think was: Wow, she looks and sounds like Kirsten Dunst! They could be sisters!

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I agree, she is very good. She's a definite knockout, which tends to obscure that she was more than a statuesque looker.

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