Movie Reviews   Reviewed by: Edward Douglas Rating: 7.5 out of
10 Movie Details: View here  Jodie Foster as Penelope Longstreet
Kate Winslet as Nancy Cowan Christoph Waltz as Alan Cowan John
C. Reilly as Michael Longstreet  Directed by Roman Polanski  Two
11-year-old boys get into a violent playground fight that leads
to their parents meeting to discuss how to handle the situation.
Alan and Nancy Cowan (Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet) come to the
Brooklyn apartment of Penelope and Michael Longstreet (Jodie
Foster, John C. Reilly) after their boy struck the Longstreet's
son Ethan with a stick, but what starts as a friendly agreement
to try to work things out turns into a angry yelling match as
four very different people try to get on the same page.  The
decision to bring a stageplay to the screen and how far to take
it away from just being people talking in a room has produced
many interesting results, and it's strange seeing Roman
Polanski's adaptation of playwright Yasmina Reza's four-handed
play "God of Carn