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'The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson': Film Review [Mena Suvari, Nick Stahl, Agnes Bruckner, Taryn Manning, Drew Roy, Gene Freeman; Director: Daniel Farrands]
Variety ^ | January 10, 2020 | Guy Lodge

Posted on 01/13/2020 8:22:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv

A year after he helmed "The Haunting of Sharon Tate," in which Hilary Duff played the doomed starlet plagued by visions of her death, the director is carving out his own unsavory subgenre of exploitation, stripped entirely of Tarantino-esque artistic notions. Try as actor Mena Suvari might to imbue Brown Simpson with some sense of wistful, melancholic tragedy, Michael Arter's script offers both women little in the way of poetry or empathy.

Try she does, though: 20 years on from the teenage promise of "American Beauty," Suvari's sincere attempt to make something hurt and human of a character largely scripted as a leering series of psychological red flags is poignant in such chilly, desolate surroundings. Still, there's only so much an actor's best intentions can do with much of the dialogue here.

(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: agnesbruckner; bendemaree; danielfarrands; danriddle; drewroy; genefreeman; guylodge; menasuvari; michaelarter; michaelgatt; nickstahl; nicolebrownsimpson; ojsimpson; revisionism; rongoldman; tarynmanning
CREDIT: Courtesy of Voltage Pictures

CREDIT: Courtesy of Voltage Pictures

1 posted on 01/13/2020 8:22:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson Official Trailer
https://zodab.com/movies/the-murder-of-nicole-brown-simpson-official-trailer

The YouTube address, sez it’s not there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtZNRkBarr8


2 posted on 01/13/2020 8:23:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
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3 posted on 01/13/2020 8:33:30 PM PST by PGR88
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Chris Stuckmann reviews The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

Chris Stuckmann reviews The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

4 posted on 01/13/2020 8:38:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PGR88

When OJ was playing football, there were some stories about his rise and about him coming out of the gang life.
He was known for fighting with two knives, one in each hand.
There wasn’t two attackers that killed his wife and the young man. It was OJ with two knives. Never came out in the court case.


5 posted on 01/13/2020 8:38:19 PM PST by ArtDodger
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To: ArtDodger

>>> killed his wife and the young man

Which is horrible, but you have to weight the fact that a policeman used the N word.


6 posted on 01/13/2020 8:42:43 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Jeff Chandler

To Variety’s credit, the publication termed this film, “carrion cinema.”
That’s some kind of good writing.


7 posted on 01/13/2020 9:02:53 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: SunkenCiv

THE MURDER OF NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkFJoFQjAE


8 posted on 01/13/2020 9:12:52 PM PST by conservative98
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To: SunkenCiv

Nicole Brown was better-looking than the actress playing her. Which is a little unusual. Kinda like the way Bugsy Siegel looked more like a movie star than Warren Beatty (who is, surprisingly, given the dissipated lives of so many in the biz, still in the land of the living).


9 posted on 01/13/2020 9:38:43 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

> a policeman used the N word <

As a cop, Mark Fuhrman was an unprofessional loose cannon. He actually tried to collect disability pay based on his instability, and his dislike of black people. He deserves much of the blame for OJ walking free today. Why he is in demand as a police commentator is mystery to me.


10 posted on 01/13/2020 10:13:20 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Leaning Right

I was with the deputy police chief when that jerk was exposed and the chief said, “that’s it, OJ skates.”


11 posted on 01/13/2020 11:20:23 PM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: Leaning Right

Whatever happened to Kato?


12 posted on 01/13/2020 11:21:59 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: SunkenCiv

“American Beauty” is what started me down the road to not going to the theater anymore.

The perfect gay male couple. The secretly gay military guy. The severe immaturity of keven spacey’s character being portrayed as brave...and on and on.

It won best picture and that pretty much killed hollyweird for me.


13 posted on 01/13/2020 11:55:51 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: conservative98

That is a bad reel from the 1970’s...


14 posted on 01/14/2020 12:52:01 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: dp0622
Yes, the constant bleating of agenda overwhelmed everything. Of course, the overhead shot of Mena in a bathtub of rose petals is how they marketed the film. I saw it with some friends who are liberal twits.

15 posted on 01/14/2020 6:28:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: conservative98; Vendome
From Pee Yew studios.

16 posted on 01/14/2020 6:33:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Zhang Fei
If the "Bugsy" movie were made today, the production would find an actor who's a ringer for the dead Iranian master terrorist.

17 posted on 01/14/2020 6:35:43 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PGR88

I’m friends with a sports radio guy, and we had an interesting conversation one day about O.J., and if he’ll ever confess. My buddy gave me one of the best explanations I’ve ever heard for Simpson’s actions that night, and since. He said O.J. only knows life in two ways, winning and losing. He was raised that way when on the streets, and learned it even more as an elite athlete. He said O.J. doesn’t look at this like he murdered his wife, he looks at it like he won and she lost. Period.

I’ve always believed Simpson murdered both of them, and my hope is that he’ll confess — on video — before his death.


18 posted on 01/14/2020 7:34:30 AM PST by Kharis13
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I only learned recently that OJ’s father was a transvestite and homosexual who died of AIDS in 1986. It was a big secret for OJ and he told the world his father had died of cancer. Growing up how he did, it was probably a huge source of embarrassment and rage.


19 posted on 01/14/2020 8:23:53 AM PST by PGR88
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