Review of Tomorrow

Right off, there's a couple of real serious flaws about this film. First of all, Joseph Anthony's direction is very stage-bound, hard and harsh. Second, the acting is ridiculously over-the-top. Robert Duvall, who I've liked in just about everything I've seen him, gives such an affected performance that it's hard to read his character. The accents go all over the place. Olga Bellin and Duvall sometimes seem to be from the south, and sometimes somewhere else altogether. The dialogue throughout is too polite, too in turn, as if everyone waits to speak their lines. The storyline itself is ordinary, with neither enough character development or dramatic drive to make it at all compelling.

There are good points. Allan Green does some very nice work with the cinematography. The harsh, stark wintertime images really settle you in the story. The atmosphere is believable and well-developed. If it wasn't how the performances so completely failed to convince, "Tomorrow" could have almost been a good film. I really wanted to like it, but there's just not enough here to like.