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Mariah praised in Tennessee

posted 16 years ago by howie73
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7396540.stm

"Tennessee is a good old-fashioned road movie, where travelling along an actual highway is a metaphor for making progress along your personal journey of life.

Mariah plays a waitress who - would you believe it? - wants to break into music. She gets picked up by the film's heroes and accompanies them to Nashville, where they hope to find their estranged father.

Amazingly, Mariah is the best thing in it. Her understated, downbeat performance is so natural that pretty soon you stop wondering whether Busta Rhymes will pop up for a guest rap.

And for someone famed as an image-obsessed diva, Carey has no problem playing a character who dresses down in dowdy clothes with greasy, tousled hair. She even carries a little extra weight compared to her normal svelte image.

Carey is so good, in fact, that the film feels rather flat when she's off-screen. The denouement, which is presumably supposed to be a heart-rending tear-jerker, kind of passed me by.

Maybe we wrote Carey's film career off too soon?"

[–] erikazboi2006 16 years ago

hate to say i told you so

i always had said actors and actresses have to start somewhere.
not all of them can pick or make 4 star movies.
member gili or w/e that movie was called with jen and ben. they both bounced back.

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1 POINT 21 GIGGA WOTTS? GREAT SCOTT!!
Wh-What the h3ll is a gigga wott?!

[–] SilverSpring86 16 years ago

Ben did. Lopez did not.

Have the lambs stopped screaming? -Hannibal Lecter

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[–] tmontyb 13 years ago

Mariah was actually really good in this.

I thought Mariah was good in this also.

Just because I'm chained to the fence,doesn't mean I can't bark at the car

[–] itssosublime 12 years ago

Sometimes there's just a role that seems tailor-made for an actor - for Miss Carey this certainly was the one. I would never expect her to top this performance, as it would be nearly impossible. It made me wonder how close to home some of the issues depicted in this film may have hit for her, as she appeared to effortlessly channel the actions and emotions of an abused woman with great ease. The song was also quite beautiful..