Star-Studded Fairy Tale Wins by a Nose; Box Office Philip Key THE BIG PICTURE PENELOPE (U) Starring: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, Ronni Ancona. Director: Mark Palansky 89 Mins. Rating: ***
Byline: Damon Smith
IN SHAKESPEARE'S The Merchant Of Venice, Jessica famously declares, "Love is blind and lovers cannot see/The pretty follies that themselves commit . . . "
Sadly, love has perfect 20-20 vision in Penelope, a modern-day fairy-tale about a young woman's futile search for enduring romance in an imageobsessed world where her unsightly facial abnormality brands her a freak.
"For seven years, I've been watching them run," laments the eponymous recluse played by the fantastic Christina Ricci, after the latest batch of potential suitors catch sight of her porcine nose - the family curse - and run for the hills via the first-floor window.
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Article title: Star-Studded Fairy Tale Wins by a Nose; Box Office Philip Key THE BIG PICTURE PENELOPE (U) Starring: Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon, Peter Dinklage, Richard E. Grant, Ronni Ancona. Director: Mark Palansky 89 Mins. Rating: ***.
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Newspaper title: Daily Post (Liverpool, England).
Publication date: February 1, 2008.
Page number: 8.
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