Director Iain Softley sustains the tension well; Hudson doesn't
overact her part as the young sceptic and Rowlands commands the screen.
ACROSS 1 Shelter; 4 Perfect; 7 Plaster cast; 9 Lane; 10 Faint; 11 Cure; 14 Release; 15 Poultry; 16 Bay leaf; 18 Sinuous; 20 Rare; 21 Marry; 22 Stag; 25 Aristocracy; 26 Toaster; 27
Overact.
It was interesting to see him pop up in Desperate Housewives last week and
overact in his usual way.
"Owen, don't
overact," this musical's ham of a failed producer Oscar Jaffee (Mark Jacoby) warns one of his sidekicks late in the piece.
Today's Zobeides are classically and emotionally expressive, but sometimes they
overact when imitating natural outbursts of passion where Fokine wanted "voluptuousness, cruel as a sting of a bee." However, their interpretation is attractive in many ways: the physical beauty of Altynai Asylmuratova, the youthful eroticism of Alexandra Gronskaya, and the bewitching plasticity of Ulyana Lopatkina.
Emilia Fox is fair enough as Marty's fiancee, here given a kick-boxing make-over for the feminist era, but when Charles Dance can't be bothered to
overact as the villain, you know you're in trouble.
It's common in the rest of the country, but the trouble with that is it doesn't give characters a chance to
overact in dramatic graveside scenes.
Pie Lomanang, teacher: "Can teleserye directors rein in some actors who
overact? They try much too hard!"
For once, Williams doesn't
overact. However, director Chris Columbus, who will direct the new Harry Potter movie, strings together one syrupy moment after the next.
There is, I'm sure, a poetry in the one-word utterances and profanities of the council-estate dwellers, but most of the cast
overact and come across as thesps auditioning for a Mike Leigh parody.
She's had a fight with her boss who
overacted to a tense situation (which football bosses always do) and he's b*llocked her.
While ordering a compensation of Rs 2.5 million to the families of each of those killed, the one-man Commission of Justice (retd) Sushanta Chatterjee said that control room officers were "vicariously responsible" and "
overacted to please their political bosses".
After being turned down for a "marauder" due to his height, he describes his pleasure at being cast as "first villager", which leads to scenes where he says he "
overacted appallingly".
Walken
overacts without shame as the campy villain of the piece, ordering his underlings to "Kill them.
A neurologist proposes to operate, but George correctly guesses that surgery will probably end his life and sends the surgeon packing with an
overacted tirade about the human capacity for achievement and enlightenment.
