Movie of the Day: Damages
A few TV series actually can work as the material for a good movie (without episodes on different days and interrupting ads so one can follow a complex story). We had already enjoyed both seasons of "Carnivale" and now are going through Season 1 of "Damages". Damages is a complex legal drama with Glenn Close as steely litigator Patty Hewes and Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons who is a young successful 'runner up' in Patty's law firm which finds herself in jail with a murder charge. The story is told in time 'flips' back an forth and so comes together with increasing numbers of episodes. Each episode, though, is an interesting piece in itself and the characters as well as the story are interesting, complex, and good material to think about. Family values, business drive, betrayal and loyalty, money & power, and many other important concepts in life are being portrayed, challenged, lost and found with actors who represent the complexities in an excellent way. If you get started and like it as much as we do, you will spend a lot of hours in front of the screen, because it sucks you in and doe not let you go. (Our score: 9/10)