Lea Thompson (LeaKThompson) Lea Thompson. Early life[edit] Thompson was born in Rochester, Minnesota, the daughter of Barbara Anne (née Barry), a singer and musician, and Clifford Elwin "Cliff" Thompson.
She studied ballet as a girl and practiced three to four hours every day. She was dancing professionally by the age of 14.[2] She won scholarships to several ballet schools, including the American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. Thompson danced in more than 45 ballets with the American Ballet Theatre. She also danced with the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Minnesota Dance Theatre and the Ballet Repertory. Thompson was told by ballet legend and then ABT artistic director Mikhail Baryshnikov that she was "a beautiful dancer, but too stocky.
" Career[edit] Thompson found moderate critical and popular success as the star of the NBC sitcom Caroline in the City, from 1995 to 1999. Personal life[edit] Filmography[edit] Film[edit] Television[edit] References[edit] Further reading[edit] Lea Thompson. Jim Hemphill. Jim Hemphill. Jim Hemphill (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker and critic.
He began his career writing about film in publications including the Chicago Reader, Film Quarterly and the American Cinematographer magazine. In 2007 he directed the independent horror film Bad Reputation, which won multiple awards at film festivals including Shriekfest, The Chicago Horror Film Festival, and the Weekend of Fear in Erlangen, Germany.
The Trouble With the Truth. Although they talk enough to qualify for radio, John Shea and Lea Thompson make the high-wire act of “The Trouble With the Truth” a convincing, moving and provocative two-hander. It’s certainly a chatty movie — the characters discuss their shipwrecked marriage for most of the film’s 96 minutes — but rarely does this nuanced, absorbing drama feel less than honest. The result could be a winner among viewers mature enough to understand the romantic complexities and emotional pitfalls of helmer Jim Hemphill’s script. The most immediate comparison will be to Louis Malle’s “My Dinner With Andre,” but the focus of conversation in “The Trouble With the Truth” is far less cosmic. The film is centered almost entirely around the now-defunct relationship between Robert (Shea), a lounge pianist and seducer of barmaids, and Emily (Thompson), still married to the man for whom she left Robert some 10 years earlier.
The first thing auds will wonder is why these two ever broke up. Performances are tops. The Trouble With the Truth: Film Review. Not since My Dinner With Andre has a film consisting largely of a single conversation been such compelling viewing.
While Jim Hemphill’s The Trouble With the Truth lacks the thematic heft of Louis Malle’s classic, this portrait of a middle-aged divorced couple reassessing their lives and relationship is the sort of subtle, grown-up drama all too often missing even from indie cinema. Featuring stellar performances by John Shea and Lea Thompson, the film will hopefully find its discerning audience. We are first introduced to Robert (Shea), a jazz musician who’s long ago given up his artistic aspirations and settled for playing piano in a swanky hotel bar to a clientele to which he feels immeasurably superior. The sort of overgrown man-child who prefers one-night stands with passing strangers over committed relationships, he not surprisingly attempts to discourage his daughter (Danielle Harris) when she informs him that she’s engaged to be married. The-Trouble-With-The-Truth - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes. The Trouble with the Truth. Jim Hemphill's "The Trouble with the Truth" is a pleasant surprise that gets better as the movie unfolds.
A divorced couple meets for dinner after their daughter announces her engagement. In the course of this very long meal, they discuss everything we would expect from divorcees wrestling with their feelings. Structured as a single long conversation, it has been compared to Louis Malle's "My Dinner With Andre. " and Richard Linklater's "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset. " It is a very small movie with very deep feelings. Robert (John Shea) is a struggling jazz musician. Their marriage did not end amicably. Part of the greatness of this film is that it not only avoids any simple answers, but it also takes us into the awkward contradictions and internal dishonesties that help us look at the mirror each day. At first, we see Robert as a self-absorbed predator, a man with whom no woman could share anything more than a night of intoxication and a few weeks of passive-aggressive acrimony.
The Trouble with the Truth. The Trouble with the Truth. All Critics (15) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (1) Who knew My Dinner with Andre could be reworked into such an engaging romantic comedy?
The Trouble With The Truth. The trouble with the truth.