Stage to screen
Two films that were stage plays have made it to the screen. And both share the same problems of being shot in a restricted location and the need to lighten up the dialogue so we can cope with a feature length talk and little action. Neither succeed fully although one manages it better than the other. This is Tape by Richard Linklater – a three-hander with Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Robert Sean Leonard. A strange meeting of old school mates in a dingy hotel room, a forced confession and a weird power game of lies and truth and dare as the three have different memories of a particular event ten years previously.
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