I Just Can't Stand This Actress....
And I can not, for once in my life, exactly articulate why. She was good and extremely pitiful as the doormat, unloved, lifeless wife in "American Beauty", and I liked her in "West Wing", as well as "The Hours". But in just about everything else, I'm not crazy about her. In "Masters & Sex", in "Primary Colors", and in almost everything else, she just seems to be either over-acting, or simply mis-cast. I don't know. I think Christine Lahti would be a much better actress in all the roles that Allison Janney gets. I miss seeing Lahti, and wish they'd give her more roles.
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