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Geoffrey Rush: Mystery Men
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As if making up for his slow start in films, Rush entered the new millennium in a whirlwind of activity. John Boorman's The Tailor Of Panama saw him acting as a spy for ruthless British agent Pierce Brosnan. Julie Taymor's magical-realist biopic Frida had him as Leon Trotsky, engaging in an affair with Salma Hayek's Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Then came The Banger Sisters where ex-groupie Goldie Hawn decides to hook up once more with her now respectable ex-colleague Susan Sarandon. On the way to Phoenix, she picks up Rush, a frustrated screenwriter armed with a gun and one bullet which he intends to fire into his father. Expert at playing sensitive and disturbed men, he made a superb foil for Hawn's kindhearted and surprisingly wise slapper.
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Steven Price (a very hammy Rush) is a wealthy amusement park owner who invites several strangers to his shrewish wife's birthday party, this year held in the abandoned Vannacutt Institute for the Mentally Insane. There, he offers a prize of one million dollars to each party-goer who can spend the entire night in the creepy and cavernous building. As Mr. and Mrs. Price play a bitter game of cat and mouse, the guests begin to think there are more ominous forces at work, especially after the body count begins to creep higher and higher. A remake of the 1958 low-budgeter starring Vincent Price.
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For Mr. Rush, 56, the opportunity was ... there to redefine a part that he had already played once. He describes Walsingham's relationship to the queen as moving from more of a mentor-student pairing in the first film to more like a middle-aged married couple who now have an over-familiarity with one another.
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