Nothing kills your interest in seeing a new film faster than to watch a trailer that has that oozing maple-syrup narration from that guy…that cloying, raspy-voiced bullshit artist who always narrates these things. And those grotesque Hallmark platitudes they always have him say…to think that someone actually gets paid to write this crap…amazing! It’s all in this trailer for Lasse Hallstrom’s An Unfinished Life (Miramax, 9.9).
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