<div class="quote_poster">The Walrus Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Oh yeah i heard about this movie. he got nominated for an Oscar too didn't he?
I can't remember exactly but isn't he a child molester or something? I heard he did a creepingly good job. But the actual movie was so-so</div>
Yeah, he did. His eight nomination, a record.
He does a fantastic job. As an avid fan of O'Toole, it's hard for me to go away from noticing that it is Peter O'Toole whenever I watch his movies, but this one just separated the star/actor from the actual character he was playing. It was flawless. The Oscar should have gone to him.
He's not a child molester so much as he is a womanizer. He portrays a womanizer as he is this huge actor in the story too, so his leniency with women graduates onto this new woman (his friends niece's daughter), who is only in her late teens. It's uncomfortable in the sense that I'm never comfortable with such huge age gaps in romance, but it's not lewd or demeaning in any sense.
All that said, I highly recommend it.
Just saw...
8/10