'I'm of two minds about 'The Whale.' I don't like it; that's one mind. Yet I love what it has done for its star, Brendan Fraser,' writes Tribune critic Michael Phillips.
This image released by A24 shows Brendan Fraser in a scene from"The Whale."
He’s best known, still, I suppose, for saving the “Mummy” franchise from lousiness. That was a long time ago. Fraser, a big, graceful screen presence, did excellent work before the “Mummy” movies and after. Eventually, he fell out of favor and, forcibly, laid low for a lot of reasons. He’d gone public, without fanfare, with his account of being groped in 2003 by Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Philip Berk; he dealt with health issues. He went longer between assignments.
Charlie has a rage-addicted teenage daughter , who never forgave him for leaving her mother when he came out as gay. Charlie’s apparent only friend Liz Charlie is also visited by a dogged young missionary from something called the “New Life” church. He is eager to convert, but he seems to be hiding something.
I have read the play, though not seen it in production, and while limited knowledge is a dangerous thing, I can see how the right staging of this five-character, one-set parable of suffering, redemption and Christlike goodness could be effective and affecting. The movie, alas, adapted by Hunter, suffers from one of the stranger cases of directorial miscasting in recent years.
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