Images - A Map of the World

<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="4"><p>A Map of the World</font> <font size="2"><br>movie review by Crissa-Jean Chappell</font> <font size=3 face="Book Antiqua,Century Schoolbook,Times New Roman"> <p><font size="6" color="#FF0000"><b>S</b></font>igourney Weaver has portrayed all sorts of steely-spined mothers (most memorably, the "mother" of mankind who hunts a slavering, insectoid mother-alien). In Scott Elliott's incoherent adaptation of Jane Hamilton's popular novel, <i>A Map of the World</i>, she plays Alice Goodwin, a city-slicker turned reluctant farm wife. Her husband, Howard (David Strathairn), has always dreamed of running a dairy in rural Wisconsin. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>