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MRS. DOUBTFIRE – Howard Shore
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Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Mrs. Doubtfire was one of the most popular and successful comedies of the 1990s, and is the heartwarming tale of a man who takes ‘playing dress-up’ to a whole new level when faced with a messy divorce and the threat of losing custody of his children. An unemployed voice actor, Daniel Hillard drives his more straight-laced wife Miranda to distraction with his antics, to the point where they decide to split. After falling foul of an officious social worker, and seeing that Miranda has advertised for a nanny to help her with their three children, Daniel convinces his makeup artist brother to transform him into ‘Euphegenia Doubtfire,’ an elderly Scottish grandmother. With the help of a series of rubber masks, elaborate costumes, and a ‘muddled’ accent, Daniel successfully applies for the nanny job – but soon finds that maintaining his dual identity and being a part of his children’s lives, while dealing with the complexities of family dynamics and relationships, is no easy task. Read more…
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