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Louise Fletcher was hilarious


Her send-up of Ingrid Bergman's Casablanca heroine of purity is relentlessly funny, her speeches about freedom in particular.

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To me her performance is the most special one in this film, next to Peter Falk's.


"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.

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So you know how to count... All the way up to two.

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"Did you make coffee...? Make it!"--Cheyenne.

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She was unrecognisable, I think she lost weight for the role.

Its that man again!!

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Seems like the best dramatic actors also make the best comedic straight-men

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It must have been hard to learn those lines about freedom. Keeping a straught face must have been almost impossible.

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