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[IFC.com - Film News] Sure, the first sight of actor Viggo Mortensen's cleft chin may instantly recall a marauding horde of Orcs or a naked knifefight in a Russian bathhouse, but he's too smart and impassioned an artist to be written off as just another Hollywood leading man. His latest film is "Good," directed by Vicente Amorim and based on the C.P.

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[All the festivals] Viggo Mortensen stars in the movie Good « All the festivals: Taylor play stars Viggo Mortensen as John Halder, a shy professor of literature with a loving wife, a needy family and an ordinary life. A welcome research job draws him deeper into the Nazi regime and as compromise and self-preservation take hold cooperation inexorably pushes him towards collusion.

[Uploads von Festival do Rio] "Um Homem Bom " - Viggo Mortensen & Vicente Amorim on Flickr ...: "Um Homem Bom " - Viggo Mortensen & Vicente Amorim. "Um Homem Bom " - Viggo Mortensen & Vicente Amorim by Festival do Rio.

[FilmoFilia] Viggo Mortensen’s “Good” Trailer And Poster - FilmoFilia: where Viggo Mortensen - the Oscar nominee - leads a cast including Mark Strong, Jason Isaacs, Steven Mackintosh, Jodie Whitaker, Gemma Jones and Rick Warden. The drama is directed by Vicente Amorim from the script by John Wrathall based on a play by Cecil Philip Taylor.

[Aceshowbiz.com - Entertainment News] Fresh Viggo Mortensen's 'Good' Trailer Arrives: Viggo Mortensen's John Halder is put under a dilemma when an uprising situation in his country forces him to choose his lifelong friend or the country he serves in Vicente Amorim's 'Good'.

[Hobbit Movie News and Rumors | TheOneRing.netâ™ | The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Movie News and Rumors] Things are getting ”˜Good’ for Mortensen | Hobbit Movie News and ...: Based on the play by C.P. Taylor, it’s about a literature professor in 1930s Germany (Mortensen) who allows his academic work to be co-opted .

[Weekly Wilson] Viggo Mortensen Receives Award at Chicago Film Festival Showing of ...: telling the audience how Mortensen brought him a stone from Auschwitz and visited Isaacs’ family to bond with him before they appeared onscreen as best friends John Halder and Maurice, his Jewish colleague.  The Brazilian director Vicente Amorim also spoke, calling the film “a film very much like the choices we make every day in our everyday lives.”

[The New York Observer] Who Cares About the Glut of Holocaust Films This Holiday Season ...: Wednesday night, the Museum of Jewish Heritage hosted the premiere of Good--another holiday season WWII drama starring Viggo Mortensen as John Halder (a German professor in the 1930s who is trying to be "good" despite societal pressures) and Jason Isaacs, who plays Mr. Mortensen's best friend Maurice, who is Jewish, in the film.

[Filmsulike] Good 2008 | Filmsulike: Synopsis: GOOD, which is based on the acclaimed play by CP Taylor, stars Viggo Mortensen in an extraordinary change-of-pace role as he plays John Halder, a good, decent individual with family problems. A German literature professor in the 1930s, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia.

[HARRY POTTER FANS • Your Harry Potter Fansite] HARRY POTTER FANS • Your Harry Potter Fansite » Blog Archive ...: Halder’s little-known novel advocating compassionate euthanasia attracts the attention of the Nazis, who want to exploit the obscure book as propaganda for their nefarious plans. Though basically a good man, Halder finds himself on a slippery slope that gradually puts those around him in jeopardy.

[Awards Daily] Good: And not to be a bitch about it or nothing but you can’t say Feinberg’s not a critic but an Oscar blogger and then go and point out Incontention (an Oscar blog) as having covering Good. It wouldn’t have been my choice to use Feinberg’s quote, though, and in fact I’d only want to use quotes from actual critics if I were doing the choosing.

[Critic's Notebook] Critic's Notebook: When Good Men Do Nothing: Amorim and screenwriter John Wrathall have produced a compelling intellectual exercise, a movie that openly wrangles with complex ethical territory and never fears the controversial equation of a man wearing a swastika with something less than total villainy. Of all the recent movies to examine the period of history, this one does so from the most unique, universally affecting perspective.

[The Hollywood Gossip] David Archuleta to Guest Star on iCarly - The Hollywood Gossip: Well, I guess I'm going to watch iCarly's "iRock the Vote" episode -- although the Archuleta grapevine seems to be indicating that he'll be on much sooner than spring. Hope that's true, because his album drops on 11/11/08 and I'd love to see him get a boost.

[Thompson On Hollywood] Awards Season Watch: Mortensen Trifecta - Thompson On Hollywood on ...: Mortensen's third fall pic, John Hillcoat's film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road, wasn't ready for the film fests. The 2929 Entertainment pic is set for release November 26 by Dimension/MGM, which suggests that despite its literary pedigree (and the Oscar Best Picture win for No Country for Old Men, based on McCarthy's book), the film may not be on Harvey Weinstein's Oscar must-push list.

[The Local Tourist's blog] 44th Chicago International Film Festival | The Local Tourist: Culminating this year’s Festival will be Good, directed by Vicente Amorim and starring Oscar® nominee Viggo Mortensen, at the Harris Theater, on Wednesday, October 29 at 7pm.

[RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More] Movie Review: Good (2008) RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers ...: Good, for all intents and purposes, is a well made film, but it unfortunately must deal with the fact that it is just one of several World War II films this year and the fact that it also bears a similar resemblance to a far more engaging feature hitting cinemas at the same time, The Reader, does not work in its favor. The film hides behind its title, which sticks with you throughout, telling the audience those with even the best intentions were not immune from becoming involved in the atrocities Adolf Hitler bestowed on the world prior to and during World War II.

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