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Spacey acts with "heavenly finesse" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ), and Annette Bening as his high-strung wife is "spectacular" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). The director, Sam Mendes, and writer, Alan Ball, are new to film--they're stage and television veterans, respectively--and many critics say that's why the film feels so fresh.
I thought of Hoffman the other day as I watched The Insider , the forthcoming All the President's Men -ish movie in which Al Pacino plays a crusading high-strung TV news producer.
It gains much, however, from a subplot featuring Nathalie Richard as Zoe, a high-strung lesbian costume designer who's too shy to put the moves on Maggie.
As David Plotz reported: "Dalmatians are high-strung.
A later mutation is Type A, he writes, that of people adapting to an agrarian diet, who were cooperative, law-abiding, yet high-strung.