Looking for Palladin English Comedy Movie 2009
Cast And Crew
Starring:: Ben Gazzara, David Moscow, Talia Shire, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Angélica Aragón, Roberto Díaz Gomar, Jimmy Morales, Sammy Morales, Vincent Pastore
Director : Andrzej Krakowski
Writer : Andrzej Krakowski
Distributers Palladin Pictures
Genre Comedy, Drama
Web Site palladinmovie.com/splash.html
Runtime :1 hour 55 minutes
Date of release : October 30th, 2009
Looking for Palladin English film Synopsis :
A young Hollywood player is drawn into a remote place looking for a quick deal and instead finds a sanctuary, a community, and ultimately himself. Young and arrogant Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross is sent reluctantly to Guatemala to find two-time Oscar winner and retired actor Jack Palladin. Josh's disregard for the 'old' actor mirrors his disdain for the local community whose help he desperately needs in his search for Palladin. What he hopes will be a quick but lucrative deal propels him on an unexpected journey. Josh as well as Palladin and his expat friends must confront the past they had forgotten.
Hollywood talent agent Josh Ross is sent to Guatemala to lure an old Hollywood star, Jack Palladin, out of retirement. Arrogant Josh gets frustrated by the slower pace of life in Guatemala and disregards the community’s interests, even though he needs them in order to find Jack. As he journeys to find Palladin, Josh embarks in a personal journey of self-discovery that changes his life.
Looking for Palladin Hollywood Movie Review
Few actors can boast that they have acted in films by Otto Preminger ( Anatomy of a Murder ), John Cassavetes ( five films ), Joel and Ethan Coen ( The Big Lebowski ), Spike Lee ( Summer of Sam ) and Lars von Trier ( Dogville ), among many others. In addition to an illustrious career in films, Ben Gazzara has enjoyed remarkable success in theater and television as well, winning an Emmy, and being nominated for three Golden Globes and three Tony Awards. A New York-born Italian-American actor and product of the famed Actors Studio, Mr. Gazzara recently starred in the French production, Paris, je t’aime, which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. He was Brick in the original Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and appeared in acclaimed revivals of Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and, most recently, Clifford Odets’s Awake and Sing! Television viewers have seen him on Arrest and Trial, Run for Your Life, The Name of the Game, two Columbo television films, An Early Frost and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.
New York native David Moscow began his career in 1986 on the TV series Kate & Allie, rising to prominence as Young Josh, Tom Hanks’ character before his transformation, in Big. The same year he appeared in The Wizard of Loneliness with Lukas Haas, and TV’s short-lived series Live-In and Living Dolls. He was one of the featured actors in Disney’s musicals, Newsies, and after a hiatus, appeared in Hurricane Streets, River Red, and Restaurant with Adrien Brody. He returned to television in Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane. Other film credits include Riding in Cars with Boys, Just Married, Nearing Grace, and David & Layla. David has worked opposite such stars as Drew Barrymore, Adrian Brody, Penny Marshall, Steve Zahn, Lorraine Bracco, Simon Baker, Christian Bale, Rosie Perez, Jessica Alba, and now Ben Gazzara, Talia Shire, and Vincent Pastore.
Undaunted, her father goes to the highest court in the land to have her declared as a white person - which was widely publicized in the press at the time, during the late '60s - but is unsuccessful. However, later, during Sandra's adolescence, a change inSouth Africa 's racial classification law allows children to be classified as the same race as their parents. In the eyes of the law, Sandra was now a white person.
Nevertheless, as a teenager, Sandra (Sophie Okonedo) can never relate to white society because of her appearance, and ultimately starts sneaking off to go to the black townships ofSouth Africa to be among those who look more like her.
She falls in love with a black man, Petrus (Tony Kgoroge), much to the dismay of her parents, especially her father Abraham. She elopes with Petrus to Swaziland, and her father has them arrested and sent to prison. After her imprisonment, she refuses to leave Petrus and return home with her parents. Abraham disowns her, and tells her she can never come back, much to the dismay of her mother Sannie.
From this point on, Sandra lives as a black person in the townships of South Africa, with all the challenges associated with it during the apartheid era. However, over the years, she never forgets about her parents, and always secretly hopes for a reunion.
Years later, when she hears about her father's death, she goes on a mission to reunite with her mother, navigating through government bureaucracy to ultimately find her convalescing in a nursing home after a series of strokes. Their reunion is a joyful one, and is a testament to forgiveness and reconciliation.
There are two poignant scenes in Skin. In one scene, Abraham applies skin lightening creme to young Sandra's face. In another, young Sandra overhears her mother and older brother Leon (Hannes Brummer) discussing how Sandra's appearance has caused so many problems. Upon hearing this, Sandra goes into the bathroom, mixes various household cleaning products into a bowl, and applies the concoction to her skin in an attempt to lighten it. But all she does is cause severe burns to her face and arms. These images of self-hatred were especially
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