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Underplayed : A California scientist announced that he has made chickens behave like quails by replacing their embryonic brain cells with quail brain cells.
This is sure-fire material, and Lee structures it deftly, leaving us in the dark until the end as to why Jake--a manifestly decent, soft-spoken, cagey fellow, gorgeously underplayed by Washington--ended up in prison in the first place.
It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
Arthur Sulzberger intentionally underplayed the paper's reports of Nazi exterminations.
Slightly derogatory, usually implying that the story was underplayed. (e.g., "The New York Times and Los Angeles Times fronted the Waco controversy, while USA Today stuffed the story").