Toni Collette

TONI COLLETTE 20X24 COLOR PHOTO
$24.99
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United States of Tara: Season One
$42.99
I love, love, love this little half hour show! You can't get any funnier than Toni Colette changing into all her alters. She is an absolutely wonderful actress and it must be great fun to change into all these characters. Like NURSE JACKIE, this show is quirky and real...it shows raw emotions from the mother who has DID to the husband and children who have to put up with all other personalities that come through. This makes for some hilarious and poignant moments.

Lilian's Story [VHS]
$19.95
As a former psychotherapist, it's appealing to view a film that doesn't try to "diagnose," but rather simply tells the story of a heroine who sought to surface through harsh parental abuse and family secrets over the course of 60 years.
If those reading this review intimately knew the tenuousness of life on the street or beach, in an institution of any kind, you would feel a tug of familiarity in this film. Although I'd not rate it as a great film, it's going to touch many if not most of us where it counts. Although I don't know the true story of this woman, I know that the struggle to both survive through the tangled psychological jungle of the human heart and spirit is well exemplified here. Although the quality of sound (what there is of it) and picture is very poor (the worst I've ever experienced on DVD), it's a salute to the story and the filmmaker that many times I felt moved by the journey this woman took ... to haltingly restore herself from horrendous abuse, some of which is only hinted at over the first 20 odd years of her life.
Reminescent of Shine, Slingblade, Joe Gould's Secret, The Fisher King, Breaking the Waves and other films about marginalized imbalanced people, this film retains a core of truth and courage beyond what any of us should have to bear as children and young adults.
Too bad the DVD quality positively stinks, for it does dislodge the viewer from focussing on fine performances in a fine film. Although the heroine's style seems somewhat stilted at times, I'm content to recommend this flick as wholly plausible given its context. I think it's good enough to own and watch again...

Evening
$2.99
By the end of this movie, I was crying. Very emotional portrayal of a dying mother who has never gotten over her first love. The daughters also have their own dramas going on - with one coming to terms with an unexpected pregnancy. Kind of reminds me of Fried Green Tomatoes.

The only thing I didn't like about this movie was the "F" bomb that was dropped on us at the beginning. Quite unnecessary.