Court says he was contacted by a creative team about creating the animation for free, and the two organizations collaborated on the script.

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Written and directed by the Taviani brothers, Paolo and Vittorio, the movie is in fact highly formalized, with the actors following a script both onstage and off, and the free play of their personalities confined by the rigorous command of the camera.

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The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.

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