The Country Girl

Frances McDormand, Morgan Freeman and Peter Gallagher star in the Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' "The Country Girl" at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. (Newsday / Ari Mintz / April 27, 2008)

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I don't think I liked it. The play didn't have the real drama and left me untouched and dissatisfied. It seems like the actors, very good ones, somehow got together without proper casting or a director and just went through the motions of putting on a play. Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormant didn't work as a married couple, even though, separately they were good. Peter Gallagher became the glue that held the semblance of a play together, but, though he gave his 95%, he wasn't enough.