Other Movies!

I just saw Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story, a TV movie about a landmark case in sexual harrassment (regarding the definition of a "hostile environment"). It deals with the "gray area" of sexual harrassment, where there may be no clear threat to the victim. Victor Garber plays Jack Gilcrest, the man charged with sexual harrassment.

Although the movie admittedly plays through the woman's point of view, to its credit, it depicts the emotional conflict of the male lead--particularly when Ellison, spooked by a creepy character in a donut shop, presses up against Gilcrest. But Garber is also able to create a creepy edge to his character, who is believable as obsessed admirer, defendant who's convinced himself of a somewhat warped view of what occurred, and something of a jerk. Of course, based on the objective facts of the case, an argument could be made that Ms Ellison overreacted--or did she? The man was pretty clearly obsessed.

But it's rather strange to see Mr Garber play this sort of role after becoming accustomed to seeing him play Jack Bristow! And the fact that the first name of the character in this movie is also Jack makes it doubly odd.

As a movie, it was fairly interesting, but nothing special. It provided Mr Garber with some very nice moments--and it gave him material to work with that is quite different than what we're used to seeing him work with on Alias.
;)
 
nattie700 said:
I just watched Victor Garber in the movie Annie. :popcorn:

He played Mr Warbucks. I found it rather amusing to see him dancing around in a tuxedo, singing, his head shaved with a kid dancing on his feet. Has anyone else seen it? I thought it was kinda funny.

Can you imagine him as Sydney's father prancing round the Ops Centre? :D :D :D :D :D
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LOL! I went to the library and saw that
 
I just watched Annie with Victor Garber, and when I wasn't freaking out about the shaved head (I really like his hair, so I had trouble with it being gone :lol:smiley:, I was finding parallels between Jack and Oliver Warbucks. You know, because they both have trouble really seeing themselves as fathers.

I also just recently rewatched Titantic and was reminded of how much I loved his performance in that. I found his character a lot more powerful than Leonardio DeCaprio's or Kate Winslet's.

I have tape of Roger's and Hammerstein's Cinderella, but I haven't watched since I started watching Alias. I'm planning to watch it in the next couple of days.

I'm really in danger of starting a weird little obession with Victor Garber. ;)
 
Katayla said:
I just watched Annie with Victor Garber, and when I wasn't freaking out about the shaved head (I really like his hair, so I had trouble with it being gone  :lol:smiley:, I was finding parallels between Jack and Oliver Warbucks. You know, because they both have trouble really seeing themselves as fathers.
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Try him in the first couple of Joanne Kilbourn TV movies (which were apparently filmed right after Annie and so show him in a pretty severely shorn state). I was expecting him to be bald in Annie, so it was a bit more startling in these other movies.

I also just recently rewatched Titantic and was reminded of how much I loved his performance in that. I found his character a lot more powerful than Leonardio DeCaprio's or Kate Winslet's.
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He did get to be very heroic (not to mention somewhat tragic!) in that one. :D Plus, he got to have that nice moment in the breakfast scene with Winslet when she brings up Freud (he could play Renault . . .).

I'm really in danger of starting a weird little obession with Victor Garber. ;)
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Oh, just relax, go with the flow and join the club! :lol:
;)
 
Try him in the first couple of Joanne Kilbourn TV movies (which were apparently filmed right after Annie and so show him in a pretty severely shorn state). I was expecting him to be bald in Annie, so it was a bit more startling in these other movies.
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Hm...I'll have to see if I can track them down. I also now have a lot more interest in seeing Legally Blonde, not that I know he's in it. :D

Intellectually, I realized he would be bald in Annie, but it still threw me off.

Plus, he got to have that nice moment in the breakfast scene with Winslet when she brings up Freud (he could play Renault . . .).
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After studying Freud last quarter, I loved that scene!

Oh, just relax, go with the flow and join the club!  :lol:
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Might as well, I don't think I could deny it for much longer. :D
 
nattie700 said:
I know this isn’t a film but this must be some kind of record! :eek:

Victor Garber was on Frasier. He was quite funny! :jawdrop: He was the butler called…tee-hee...Ferguson! Hahahaha. :P :D

He had a little bit of growth on his upper lip so it was like a moustache and he had a bit if an English accent. ;)
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Yes I loved him as Ferguson. Oh why wasn't he recognized for his guest performance on that episode?
 
mountaineer5 said:
he's also in sleepless in seattle. i love that movie, and just noticed he was in it. he played tom hanks's brother in law.
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I loved that movie!!!!!!!!!!! I spotted him the last time I watched a while ago.
 
AgentGill said:
Yes I loved him as Ferguson. Oh why wasn't he recognized for his guest performance on that episode?
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Well, he was, with an Emmy nomination (but, alas, not a win). (Derek Jacobi won for a different Frasier episode that season.) Recently I was able to finally view the episode and was impressed by how good-hearted it was. If my overall impression of Frasier had been more like that of this episode, I would have been a regular viewer.
;)
 
AgentGill said:
mountaineer5 said:
he's also in sleepless in seattle.  i love that movie, and just noticed he was in it.  he played tom hanks's brother in law.
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I loved that movie!!!!!!!!!!! I spotted him the last time I watched a while ago.
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That's right! I keep meaning to track down a copy of that movie and watch it. It's been a while since I've seen it.

I just watched Legally Blonde, just for the Victor Garber. It actually was a better movie than I expected it to be, though I prefer it when he plays characters I can actually like. :smiley:
 
Katayla said:
I prefer it when he plays characters I can actually like. :smiley:
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But it's interesting when he plays someone creepy because he lends even those characters a great deal of humanity (you don't see it as much in Legally Blonde as in some other less sympathetic roles).
;)
 
i saw him in Annie!!! not the normal one but the disney version.
he was bald, singing, dancing and doing this strange 'dance' move with his hands. oh yeah he was tap dancing as well!!!!!
 
verdantheart said:
Katayla said:
I prefer it when he plays characters I can actually like. :smiley:
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But it's interesting when he plays someone creepy because he lends even those characters a great deal of humanity (you don't see it as much in Legally Blonde as in some other less sympathetic roles).
;)
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heh...my friend saw Legally Blond and ever since that movie, she's never quite looked at victor the same.
 
The first Victor Garber movie I saw was Godspell, my EYC group went to the big city to see it the day it came out. And of course we all loved it and thought it was the best movie ever. (What can I say? We were in high school and college, and putting on the play later that year.)

A couple of us did worry, though, wondering if it was a sin to have lust in our heart for the Jesus in the movie.

I hope it wasn't a sin, because I'm still committing it. :smiley:
 
thejanet said:
A couple of us did worry, though, wondering if it was a sin to have lust in our heart for the Jesus in the movie.
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First, only a character in a movie, not the real thing. Second, we're all only human, aren't we? (Also, it's virtually the first movie that you could have seen him in (first-run, anyway) unless you saw him in Jack: A Flash Fantasy, a TV movie.)
^_^
 
During the 80's or early 90's Victor Garber played Liberace' in a television movie. He was really good, but I remember his ears sticking out a bit more. I think maybe he had an ear job or maybe he just grew into them.
 
nattie700 said:
I just watched Victor Garber in the movie Annie. :popcorn:

He played Mr Warbucks. I found it rather amusing to see him dancing around in a tuxedo, singing, his head shaved with a kid dancing on his feet. Has anyone else seen it? I thought it was kinda funny.

Can you imagine him as Sydney's father prancing round the Ops Centre? :D :D :D :D :D
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That was him? I totally didn't realize that, wow. *must go tell EVERYONE she knows* :jawdrop:
 

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