Peter Firth

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(09-07-2010 04:22 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  Forgive me if this has been brought up before but I simply can't face reading through 200 some-odd postings looking for a past discussion about this.

I watched An Awfully Big Adventure last night. As twisted and disturbing a take on the Peter Pan story as this is, I thought PF was one of the best things in it as the devoted Stage Manager Bunny, AKA Tinkerbell. Bunny is one of the few characters that is not caricatured. His performance is very understated and it could have gone way off the deep end. It teetered on it, but never actually toppled into the overacting for laughs abyss. There were a lot of acting-in-between-the-lines moments which he does so well. It is a character that unfolds slowly and Bunny has a whole plot line all his own underneath everything else. I prefer his plot line as it is a whole lot less...um...sordid.

Well put, A Cousin - PF's the best thing about the film, I think (not that I'm biased or anything...). Huge Grant overacts madly (but on the upside, at least he DOES act for a change) and Rickman I just found rather annoying. PF is very sweet and wonderfully understated.