Tag: Hilary Swank
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Ordinary Angels: Creating Extraordinary Acts of Kindness and Tenacity
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: Based on a remarkable true story, ORDINARY ANGELS centers on Sharon Steves (Hilary Swank), a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt (Alan Ritchson), a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his…
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“What They Had” Gets to the Heart of the Family Bond in Crisis
There is a lot of emotional resonance, biting interplay and resentment tempered with the uneasy respect for each other that siblings and parents have make in order to maintain the family bond in Elizabeth Chomko’s first directorial effort What They Had. These are the kind of breathed in characters good actors live to flesh out.…