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Patricia Clarkson Shows What a Great Actor She Is in ‘Lilly,’ a Whistleblower Drama for Our Time
It's been a while since Clarkson nabbed a movie role as full-scale and invigorating as the one she has in "Lilly," a whistleblower drama for our time.
We see characters like the ones played by Russell Crowe in “The Insider” or Al Pacino in “Serpico” or Meryl Streep in “Silkwood,” and the point is supposed to be that these are ordinary folks who became heroes, molded by circumstance into better versions of themselves. But due to the diligence of one of the lawyers, Jon Goldfarb (Thomas Sadoski), she lands in court, and in what feels like one of those adrenaline-rush-of-victory moments, the jury finds the salary question in her favor, awarding her damages in the millions. Yet the slow-burn force of the movie is that, as Rachel Feldman has directed it, with a fixation on the details of process comparable to what we saw in “Lincoln” or the documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” the story is really about how America works now — not as tumultuous political drama, but as ordinary citizens carving out justice one ruling and statute and red-tape tangle at a time.
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