James McAvoy plays a very similar character in this movie as he does in The Last King of Scotland - except instead of having to deal with a genocidal dictator, he has to deal with some intense, heavy Russian family drama. He plays the personal secretary to aging author Leo Tolstoy and gets embroiled in an all-out war between Tolstoy's wife and his friend Chertkov. Paul Giamatti plays a really good villain, by the way. Kerry Condon proves that she can act in something other than Rome, but beware of a couple very awkward sex scenes.
My Netflix rating: 4 stars
I dug this one too, but part of me thinks it's because it happened to echo a few things going on around me. (My review of it is up if you'd care to read it)
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