Cate Blanchett: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked
5 Awesome Performances...
5. Magdalena Maggie Gilkeson The Missing (2003)
For the most part, Ron Howard is not in the business of making badass action films. He may have started his career with car chase thriller Grand Theft Auto, but since then the former Happy Days star has plied his trade with more family-friendly affairs like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and prestige dramas like A Beautiful Mind. But for one shining moment in 2003, he figured he should give a revisionist Western a crack, and it's probably the best thing he's ever done. Helped in no small part by the source material (Thomas Eidson's 1996 The Last Ride), Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. Really it's Blanchett's show, as Jones's estranged daughter forced to team up with her absent father to track down her own child when she's kidnapped. Blanchett's Maggie is not always a sympathetic heroine, but she's one of the most interesting women characters in the history of Westerns.
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