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Where were you born and raised and what did your folks do for a living? I was born in Santa Ana, California, but I was raised in Midway City, also in Orange County. My mother didn't work; she cared for the family. And my father was in heating and air conditioning. How did acting first enter the picture for you? I remember putting on plays in the backyard when I was very little and charging the neighbors 10 cents to come see them, so I guess I had the acting bug early on. And I remember watching old black-and-white movies late at night when I wasn't supposed to be up — I guess they were prob...

Michelle Pfeiffer makes a bid to become the next great gay icon in French Exit, one of those camp-inflected dramedies that makes advanced gum disease seem tempting by comparison. Pfeiffer, delivering every line in a Cruella de Vil/Bette Davis tone of weary condescension, plays Frances Price, a New York celebrity aristocrat who is rapidly running out of money. Selling her last remaining possessions, she packs up a black cat, a bag full of cash, and her son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) and takes the lot to Paris, where she hopes her life runs out before her money does. “I wanna see the Eiffel T...

La Pfeiffer Is a Widow on the Verge in 'French Exit' La Pfeiffer Is a Widow on the Verge in 'French Exit' Azazel Jacobs' eccentric socialite comedy - also starring Lucas Hedges and Valerie Mahaffey - teeters on the edge of an uncertain reality K. Austin Collins, provided by Feb. 11, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail French Exit is headlined by the that magnetic chill of hers directly in mind. The movie — adapted by Patrick deWitt from his 2018 novel of the same name — is a tale about a classic, monied, New York City eccentric, the kind of person whose status is as obvious, in their utter aloofne...

Directed by Azazel Jacobs, "French Exit" belongs to the performance of Michelle Pfeiffer, who as a newly insolvent socialite captures an unexpected mix of whimsy and melancholy.

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