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Nobody’s Fool

film by Benton [1994]

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In Robert Benton: The 1990s and beyond
…Benton directed another film adaptation, Nobody’s Fool. Paul Newman played Sully, a bone-weary, cynical handyman in a small economically depressed town in upstate New York. In Richard Russo’s best-selling novel, Sully is self-deluding; onscreen he is endearingly cranky as he interacts with his estranged son (Dylan Walsh); his landlady and…
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In Paul Newman: Later roles of Paul Newman
…yet humorous construction worker in Nobody’s Fool (1994), directed by Robert Benton and based on the novel by Richard Russo; Newman once claimed that the character was the closest to himself that he had ever played. That same year the actor gave a broadly satirical performance as an unscrupulous tycoon…
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