Honest and hilarious in equal measure, Baker's electrifying film gives a voice to a community that movies usually exploit for laughs, and his two
nonprofessional leads deliver the best performances of the fest.
Not exact matches
My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who
lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to
nonprofessionals who are in training to
lead growth groups.
These assumptions may have
led many philosophers who were religious to consign faith to their private,
nonprofessional lives or to accept Nielsen's and Mackie's view that the theistic tradition is intellectually second - rate.
A.A. Dowd of the A.V. Club finds the movie «aggressively maudlin,» but admits that if there's «any power to this manipulative movie, it lies in quiet dignity of its
lead performance, delivered by a
nonprofessional actor from an actual leper colony.»
In Monte Hellman's hypnotic road movie Two - Lane Blacktop, folk singer James Taylor gives a
lead performance that is both unassuming and arresting, the kind of askew, unshowy, vanity - free acting that perhaps only a
nonprofessional actor is capable o...