In reality, the movie does little more than portray a few months in the life of an "ecole maternelle" whose very young pupils -- between the ages of 2 and 5 -- come from poor families.
"Butley" portrays a few hours of the destructive games that its title character plays in his office (designed with appropriately oppressive squalor by Alexander Dodge), dodging tutorials with eager students; baiting friends, enemies, lovers and colleagues, and hiding from hurtful facts.
It's the quietness in "quiet desperation" that Mr. Pressman and his cast highlight here in portraying a few days, both eventful and typical, in the claustrophobic lives of Lola and Doc Mr. Andersonn), a chiropractor of dashed ambitions trying to stay off the sauce.
As children, the movies we often watch portray a few big pictures, both literally and figuratively.
Aniston returned to lighter comedic fare with director Peter Bogdanovich's ensemble farce She's Funny That Way (2014), in which she portrayed a therapist with few professional boundaries, and Garry Marshall's paean to motherhood, Mother's Day (2016).
In his 1990 novel, Earth, David Brin portrayed a time just a few decades from now when virtually everyone would be connected to a worldwide "Net".
The air of volatility in Istanbul is portrayed in a few unforgettable strokes: a riot, a pursuit, and the arrest of Ayten's fellow-rebels.
Florence Henderson didn't just play a role, she portrayed an idealized parent few of us had but everybody wanted.
Fig. 2 The evolution of horses as it was portrayed a century ago when there were relatively few fossils.
"There are only a few moments to portray a person that you've known a whole lifetime.
