Let me back track a sec, because this story is bananas. Springfield, Missouri is where Dee Dee's body was found and her murderer - the man Gypsy Rose met and fell in love with online - was convicted for first degree murder, sentenced to life in prison. If you'd like to know where The Act is set to, you know, avoid it, I've got you covered. I say "was" because Dee Dee was murdered in her home in 2015. The Act, available to stream March 20, has a couple big names attached - Patricia Arquette and Joey King - portraying the disturbing mother-daughter relationship that was Dee Dee Blanchard and daughter, Gypsy Rose. Jack’s announcement that he is planning to have an affair coincides with one of the most difficult cases of her career.Among the latest releases from Hulu comes the shocking true-crime series that'll give you all the nightmares. Fiona, oblivious, reads aloud: “Michael’s heart is normal and sustains them both.” She might as well be describing her marriage. There’s a terrific scene early on when Jack is trying to tempt her away from work – a ruling on a pair of conjoined twins – with offers of dinner and theatre tickets. Fiona is dedicated to and consumed by her job, at the expense of her marriage to academic Jack (Stanley Tucci). There is a steely elegance to her she’s an ermine robe with the claws still showing. Eminent high court judge Fiona Maye (superbly inhabited by Emma Thompson) is given to brusque certainties – her decisions in life are as final and binding as those she makes in court. There is no questioning the angular complexity of the central character study, with all its unexpected harmonics and discords.
It is also, arguably, one of the main problems with a film that manages to be both wholly persuasive and utterly preposterous.
The writing of Ian McEwan – he adapted this screenplay from his own novel – is sophisticated and rewarding.
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