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The talented actor Terry Kinney turns feature-film director to guide a regiment of equally appealing performers — Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Lois Smith, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale — through their respectable if pedestrian paces in the comedy-drama hybrid “Diminished Capacity.” Adapted by Sherwood Kiraly from his novel of the same title, the sleepy proceedings turn on two relatives [...] Vai alla recensione »

In "Diminished Capacity," Alan Alda plays a former tavern owner in rural Missouri who is succumbing to dementia with style. To pass the time, he rigs the keyboard of an old manual typewriter to a baited fish hook, then waits for the fish to pull on the line and snap a letter onto a sheet of paper. After a small eternity (and only after judicious editing), poems happen.