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I haven't had a laugh like that in AGES-Holliday Grainger sounds like Vicki Lawrence on "Mama's Family"-WHY do they keep casting Brits in American roles? They only know two accents-dirtwater hillbilly, and JFK at Hyannisport-and they seem to think that all Americans talk like one or the other. Why not just give the job to an American actor? You can't tell me they couldn't find someone else, because apart from Miss Grainger's serious need of an accent coach, she is woefully miscast, playing tough little Bonnie Parker as a vaudeville-version southern belle. Emile Hirsch is competent as Clyde Barrow, (if a little too bright; Clyde reportedly wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed) but that's the best I can give his performance. William Hurt is.....well, I kept wondering what Kevin Costner would have looked like as Hamer instead. Oh, well. And the script and story....romanticized pablum that seems to want to treat this pair of criminal lowlifes as the romance of the century, and overlook that Bonnie and Clyde killed people, innocent people who would probably have just handed over what they wanted. The Beatty-Dunaway movie wasn't exactly historically accurate either, but at least it was under no delusion about its subjects. Throw in an Intrepid Female Reporter, lots of unaccountable slo-mo shots, Holliday Grainger whispering "Bawnee and Clahhd" for no apparent reason, and you've got the Lifetime Movie of the Week version of one of the most notorious criminal manhunts in US history. Just watch the movie, or read a book if you want the facts.