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Director Scott Hicks ( Shine ) takes a few knocks: "If ever there was an example of a director's getting in the way of a story, this is it" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Strangely enough, Ethan Hawke--the film's biggest star--gets almost no mention.
Because Eleanor, in her own patrician way, had behind her the authority of what our grandparents called the School of Hard Knocks.
Truman himself encountered him, he wrote, in the form of mysterious knocks on the door and receding footfalls.
Wills calls the memoir as a whole "tiresomely moralizing" and knocks the quality of the advising Stephanopoulos did for Clinton, noting that it was after he left that the Clinton presidency really took off.
Well, as far as I'm concerned, any story that knocks SUVs is a good story.