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The other story is the love affair between a luckless torch singer (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and a luckless ex-fisherman (David Strathairn), in which the two--through a series of melodramatic contrivances that testify to Sayles' lack of ingenuity as a storyteller--end up together with the singer's brilliant, desperately unhappy daughter (Vanessa Martinez) on a remote island, where they're prey to cold, starvation, and drug smugglers with shotguns.
I'm not sure I totally buy Strathairn as a diffident loner with an aching conscience over a tragedy that wasn't his fault--the quintessential guiltless sinner.
Hoffman evidently thinks that he has chosen the last Western society in which a young woman, Hermia (Anna Friel), could plausibly be threatened with death for not obeying her father's command to marry his choice of suitors, in this case Demetrius (Christian Bale)--although David Strathairn's Theseus is such an apologetically lightweight patriarch that the threat seems incongruous.
As her millionaire pimp, an operator called Pierce Patchett, David Strathairn does a classic detective-movie turn: sleek, unruffled, every motion cagily deliberate.
Few directors are more instinctively caring, or provide for more moments of grace between characters" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). The film, set in Alaska, follows two middle-aged loners (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and David Strathairn) who engage in a tentative romance.