Stone (2010) – Just because you’re not doing wrong doesn’t mean you’re doing right…

Stone (2010) directed by John Curran stars Robert De Niro as Jack Mabry, Edward Norton as Gerald ”Stone” Creeson, Milla Jovovich as Lucetta Creeson, Frances Conroy as Madylyn Maybry and Peter Lewis as the Warden.

“The performances are strong throughout. De Niro’s disillusioned cynic, Norton’s morally ambiguous Stone, Jovovich who is cat-like in her disdain and focused sexual enjoyment, Conroy’s frumpy alcoholic and the various supporting cast like the bland priest who offers the sentiment “God works in mysterious ways” as an actual response to a crisis of faith. And in the end we are neatly brought back to that bee buzzing in the beginning. More than anything this is a tale about exercising integrity in the moment of choice. Just because you’re not doing wrong doesn’t mean you’re doing right. It gets my hearty recommendation for that and for the thoroughly enjoyable intricacy of the collective acting.”

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