Review: Terri (2011)

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Director: Azazel Jacobs
Starring: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly

Azazel Jacobs' Terri is in many ways a quintessential indie movie. It's a little bit weird, more slowly paced than a studio film, and can't be easily classified as either drama or comedy, possessing a delicate mixture of both. This template isn't always successful, of course, but in the hands of a filmmaker who knows what he or she is doing, it can be. Terri is a successful film, one which demonstrates craft on the part of Jacobs and screenwriter Patrick DeWitt.

Friday's Top 5... Worst Post-Oscar Careers (Director Edition)

#5: Robert Zemeckis

Won for: Forrest Gump. Prior to winning the Oscar, Robert Zemeckis brought to life such films as Romancing the Stone, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and the Back to the Future trilogy. Since winning the Oscar, he's released What Lies Beneath and a series of films that, if they don't cross over it completely, skirt the edge of dipping into the uncanny valley: The Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol.

Guide to Oscar: Best Supporting Actor

The Supporting Actor category was introduced in 1936. Until 1943 the Supporting Actor winners received a plaque rather than an actual Oscar statue.

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Guide to Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

The Best Original Screenplay is one of the original Oscar categories and honors, well, original screenplays.

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Guide to Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay

The Best Adapted Screenplay category is one of the original Oscar categories and honors screenplays adapted from another source. Screenplays are considered "adapted" both when directly inspired from, for example, a novel or a television series, and when the story is a sequel to another film, in which case the characters are considered to have been adapted for the purpose of the new film.

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