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I Want to Cuddle with This Movie

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (29)

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I don’t mean to sound pushy, or bossy, or like I’m telling you what to do, but if you like good actressin’, you need to line the hell up behind Carey Mulligan. She’s just flat-fucking-out amazing. Jaw to the floor, thank you very much, come back and see us, don’t let the door hit your ass amazing. If you could buy stock in an actress, I’d go all in, and go long, on Carey Mulligan. In 30 years, she’s still going to be collecting Oscar nominations. She’s got this fantastic bittersweet heartbreak quality about her — she’s like Keri Russell, only with genuine acting ability. I just dig her to China.

Below is the trailer for The Greatest. Carey Mulligan stars as Rose, who falls in love with Bennett (Kick-Ass’s Aaron Johnson). Bennett soon thereafter dies in a car accident, and Rose arrives at Bennett’s parents house a few months later pregnant. She ends up moving in with that family; the father (Pierce Brosnan) and brother welcome her, but the mother (Susan Sarandon) resents her, and feels she’s the cause of her son’s death.

I haven’t seen the movie, but spoiler alert: When Rose has the baby in the end and Susan Sarandon’s steely resolve gives out, there’s going to be a whole lotta fucking tears shed.

I wanted to say that the trailer reminds me a lot of Moonlight Mile, a movie with a similar premise from a few years back starring Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman that ended up being something of a letdown, particularly given how much I had looked forward to that movie that year (it would be the first movie I took my now wife too). Unfortunately, Russ over at Slashfilm has already made that comparison. But then again, if you’ve seen Moonlight Mile, it’s hard not to see a tonal connection.

Check out the trailer. It looks sublime. And since they’re not allowing on on YouTube, you’ll need to check it out over on the Apple Trailers site.









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Comments

I still can't believe she was Sally Sparrow in the Doctor Who "Blink" episode. She looks so different now.

Posted by: Craig at March 19, 2010 10:05 AM

Ooops! "Terms of use violation."

Posted by: , at March 19, 2010 10:07 AM

Damn, it's too early in the day to cry.

Agree on Mulligan - and Brosnan looks pretty good too.

If anyone else can't get to this trailer it's on the Apple trailers site.

Posted by: Cindy at March 19, 2010 10:10 AM

Hey, don't knock my girl Felicity, she scored Scott Speedman AND she time-traveled. (What's that, you say? There was time-travel in Felicity? Yes, whatever, I still loved it, I was young.)

Posted by: Dorothy Snarker at March 19, 2010 10:16 AM

Is it me or has Pierce Brosnan been churning out a movie a week for the past few months? I can think of at least three movies currently in the cinema that he's in.
Not that I'm complaining: very easy on the eyes, but he seems to be on a spurt all of a sudden.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 19, 2010 10:20 AM

Dorothy,
I recently rewatched all the Felicity DVDs, and I still loved the show so don't feel bad. But, yeah, I love Keri Russell.

Posted by: Jen K at March 19, 2010 10:25 AM

I really liked Moonlight Mile. But then it was at the high point of my Jake obsession, so that may be why.

Posted by: Carrie at March 19, 2010 10:26 AM

mmmmmmmm....spurting Pierce Brosnan.......

Posted by: Commander Strikeher at March 19, 2010 10:39 AM

This might be a little late and out of the blue, but Peter Sarrsssggarrd's tribute to her at the Oscars was LAME.

And Pierce is the sexiest centaur ever!

Posted by: Kash at March 19, 2010 10:51 AM

That's my fantasy Commander, just step away slowly and no-one will get hurt

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 19, 2010 10:53 AM

Good lord. I got all emotional. Good thing I have my own office.

Posted by: Danielle Lilly at March 19, 2010 10:55 AM

You need to rearrange your launch times for some of these links, Dustin, because there's no way I should cry before lunch.

Seriously...Pierce Brosnan getting misty? Consider me sucker punched.

Posted by: feramones at March 19, 2010 11:00 AM

This movie is going to break my heart, isn't it? Gosh, the trailer has me all teary. Crap. Something in my damned eye.

Posted by: Kate the Great at March 19, 2010 11:02 AM

Paddy, there are few men I will fight over, but my James Bond fetish always wins out. I can't help it, I like my men British, in tuxes, and slightly intoxicated.

Posted by: Commander Strikeher at March 19, 2010 11:03 AM

Isn't Carey Mulligan dating L'Beef?

Did I just ruin everyone's day?

Posted by: Snath at March 19, 2010 11:11 AM

Please.

The baby is going to come out another nationality or race altogether from the supposed "father." But before the mother can go on Maury and try out six different dudes who may potentially be the father Susan Sarandon slaughters the holy godfuck out of the girl. Now who will raise this poor wittle child? Susan of course, as soon as she leaves her husband and son (naturally because they accepted the damn harlot with no questions at all). She will raise it, kept in a cage, in the art of combat until it's old enough to finally snap her neck and wander the countryside in order to find inner peace.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 19, 2010 11:28 AM

DeistBrawler, I think a far more fitting ending would be that she cares for the small, colored child and raises him into a proud, black man who -- brainstorming now -- becomes the head of Harvard Law? Or something. Whatever, we have to fit white guilt in there somewhere.

Posted by: superasente at March 19, 2010 11:39 AM

That's nice Commander, but Pierce Brosnan is Irish not British, and yes, it is different.

Feramones:

If you like a misty Pierce Brosnan, rent "Evelyn", it even made my Love Actually hating cold heart melt.

Posted by: PaddyDog at March 19, 2010 11:46 AM

That's true - Pierce Brosnan is Irish, but James Bond is British.

My panties melt for most European accents anyways!

Posted by: Commander Strikeher at March 19, 2010 12:05 PM

I still can't believe she was Sally Sparrow in the Doctor Who "Blink" episode.

I JUST watched that ep yesterday, and I was all like, "Why does she look so *familiar*?!"

Posted by: Anna von SPARKLEbeaver at March 19, 2010 12:07 PM

"Life is long and you are hot."
I love Blink.

Anywhoodle, I believe I would watch Pierce Brosnan host a telethon, such is my affinity for him. Next to Connery,he is my favorite Bond. Panty-melting indeed.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at March 19, 2010 12:56 PM

Sorry Lindsey, but everyone knows Craig is the best Bond.

Wow. Used to be I might have meant that sarcastically (and such is the nature of my joke), but I guess I actually believe it now. I really think Daniel Craig is the best Bond.

Posted by: Snath at March 19, 2010 1:00 PM

I think people have a tendency to favor whichever Bond they were watching when they first fell in love with Bond. I'm a Brosnan guy. He personifies Bond to me...classy, gentlemanly, a tad smarmy. Craig is just a little too thuggish.

Posted by: Name: at March 19, 2010 1:41 PM

God damn school computer! I can't watch the trailer since Quicktime is not downloaded. Mulligan was so lovely in An Education. I wonder if she's going the Zooey Deschanel route and play wonderful indie parts, or just make Hollywood movies that suck- Wallstreet 2, anyone?

Posted by: tallulahc at March 19, 2010 1:41 PM

"Sorry Lindsey, but everyone knows Craig is the best Bond."

"Craig is just a little too thuggish."

I always thought I was just a little too gay to be Bond. Unless they made "The Spy Who Really Doesn't Like Those Shoes".

Posted by: Craig at March 19, 2010 5:51 PM

I think it's like raising a child. First she's Sally Sparrow, so intrepid, and the next thing you know -- BAM! She's having a kid in some intense grownup movie. Someone should start singing Sunrise, Sunset and we can all reminisce about the good old days.

Or at least that's what people do in my family on important growing up occasions. It's not totally weird, right?

Posted by: esme at March 20, 2010 1:00 AM

If you need further proof that J.J. Abrams is OBSESSED with time travel, he even dropped it into a show like Felicity. Even so, that show is still his best work. Love it.

And don't get me wrong, I agree with your every word when it comes to Carey Mulligan (amazing), but Keri Russell is not chopped liver. She has genuine talent, and I keep waiting for her to capitalize on all the goodwill she earned with Waitress.

Posted by: Melissa at March 20, 2010 8:48 PM

esme, I totally hear you. That was actually the song I danced w/ my dad to at my wedding.

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at March 20, 2010 10:01 PM

Is it true that they're doing a film version of The Seagull? She was a brilliant Nina - I saw her from the front row of the Royal Court and was blown away by her (and the other cast members...).

Posted by: Dora at March 22, 2010 7:38 AM