Michelle Pfeiffer, Unheralded Comedy Maven
Huff PostMichelle Pfeiffer, seen here in "Married to the Mob," "One Fine Day," "French Exit," "The Witches of Eastwick" and "Batman Returns." She wasn’t whetting knives in either — those characters don’t share Frances’ frosty remove — but the movies still manage to end where “French Exit” begins, with Pfeiffer trampling the nuisances that surround her. “This is show business?” Susie taunts, Pfeiffer grimacing as she scans the dingy room and proceeds to shed her coat despite the brothers’ dismissal. 20th Century Fox via Getty Images Frances in “French Exit” would be the closest Pfieffer has come to reprising the vampy turpitude of “Batman Returns” were it not for “mother!,” 2017’s polarizing psychological-thriller-cum-biblical-allegory. She’s not exactly tabloid-proof — her liaison with John Malkovich during 1988’s “Dangerous Liaisons,” for example, was primo gossip fodder — but Pfeiffer was protective enough to ensure her celebrity wouldn't subsume her work.
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French Exit is a tribute to Michelle Pfeiffer's career playing characters busting out of their glamorous facades
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