The chiming roots-rocker "Christmas in America" is a heartfelt character study.
Many of the works I have launched have become known for their heartfelt character, often intensely melodic rather than driven by rhythm alone.
The group's goal is to tell "heartfelt, character driven stories tackling real emotional and social issues that test the boundaries of the genre space," and boy, do they do that.
But that's what makes the movie a perfect interlude in Wiig's career: The accessories of her broad-comedy background are intact, but what resounds is a heartfelt character study that never reduces Alice's mental condition to a punch line.
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It is certainly the strongest broadcast hour of 2013 to date -- and no, I haven't forgotten the most moving episodes earlier this year of NBC's Parenthood, with its harrowing and heartfelt arc about one character's heroic struggle with cancer and the impact it had on her loved ones.
A first-time feature helmer, the Israeli-born Michael Mayer (not to be confused with the same-named American theater and film/TV director) ratchets up the tension on its appealing lead characters in believable, heartfelt ways while spinning out an edgy tale fueled by do-or-die sociopolitical intrigue.
The form requires that something heartfelt be transmitted from one character to another.
Both stars look wildly out of place, but their performances are as heartfelt as the cause of their characters is righteous.
Turgenev, like Friel, extends heartfelt sympathies to all his conflicted, yearning characters.
