Oates never gave a subtler, warmer performance than as a man who unexpectedly takes to domesticity.
The same is true for Isabel Santiago, though she gives a warm performance as Julie, a singer of part-black parentage who tries to pass for white.
Dory is still voiced by DeGeneres, and Nemo's dad Marlin is voiced by Albert Brooks, whose warm performance is a career highlight for him.
It's really a tempestuous love story between two Northern Males: Clough, played by Michael Sheen, and that invaluable but horribly mistreated assistant Peter Taylor - a lovely, warm performance from Timothy Spall.
Renée Zellweger gives a wonderfully warm performance as Betty, and her bewilderment when confronted by an obviously fake hospital set is a joy to behold, as is the lupine nastiness of Aaron Eckhart, her spouse.
Ms. Lahti gives a warm performance (she looks sensational too) and Mr. Cristofer an energetic one, but their characters never move beyond fussing over the oddity of their predicament to reveal distinct personalities.
Under his new identity, Moritz, Martin becomes enmeshed in his boss's family, which includes a sexy hippie daughter, Yvonne Lisa Tomaschewskyy), and a peacenik son, Alex, who, on the strength of Ludwig Trepte's warm performance, quickly grows into the show's most complex character.
Portraying this genial youngster, who has not yet outgrown his obsession with collecting action figures — one of the show's more funny-tasteless gags has a bloodied prisoner being held with his head covered by a "Star Wars" pillow — Mr. Ambudkar delivers a warm performance that makes us see why Yalda might grow fond of him.
Helped by his film training, he gave an always dignified and warm performance, serenely meeting such challenges as increasing deafness, two bouts of cancer, and an assassination attempt one year into his presidency, and effortlessly putting behind him the gaffes for which be soon became famous - such as his assertion that most air pollution was caused by trees.
