Slumped, pitted, cratered, they seem to preserve the primal character of the earth from which they're made.

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As Dolly, Laurie has been saddled with too many saintly attributes, but she makes her character an ethereal earth mother, giving her the weight to carry her head-in-the-clouds lines, and delivers a remarkable performance.

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