--flipp525 wrote:Mask (Peter Bogdanovich, 1985) 8/10
Maybe I was just in the mood for a good cry, but damn, I was waterworks practically start to finish. What a touching story and beautiful performances by the whole cast, particularly Cher, Eric Stoltz and Sam Elliott. Cher and Stoltz definitely give nomination-worthy performances. Egregiously overlooked that year for some reason.
Stolz being left out seemed the more shocking, because best actress was widely seen as crazy competitive (I remember People having a story that year listing as many as 20 women who might have qualified in another year), but supporting actor was lean, to put it mildly -- witness Eric Roberts for one of his worst performances, Robert Loggia for throwaway work, and ultimate winner Ameche, one of the sillier explosions of sentiment in Academy history.
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