overacting

Mark Ruffalo is essentially playing the author, Larry Kramer...If you've ever seen LK speak live or in a film clip, he is a VERY angry man...He really fights battles every day, with only a typewriter and the force of his personality as weapons...His anger and pain are living things...He doesn't care if you like him or not; his point is to provoke and make people think...Mark Ruffalo is a wonderful actor whose passion bursts from the screen...

And yet, in those tender scenes with Felix (Matt Bomer), he reveals the heart and soul of the man...He has to watch the person he loves, a beautiful, strong, vigorous young man, wither away and die...I think that would cause anyone to be a touch over-emotional...It's the scene where Ned breaks down in the laundry room after bathing Felix and cleaning the bedroom, and the scene where he throws the milk at Felix that reveal the most about this man...Ned's fear and pain come out in one heart-rending cry, "Don't leave me, Felix..."

Matt's performance is searing because he is so quiet and contained...He keeps his pain on the inside, which is why he is so riveting as an actor...His eyes say what his lips cannot...Ned admits that he grew up thinking that feelings were a weakness, and that it "scares the *beep* out of" him...Felix's weakness becomes Ned's strength...

Julia Roberts' character cares for dying men...She has a *beep* job with endless responsibility, and she has every right to become a little unstrung when facing the bureaucracy, ignorance and stupidity of the know-it-alls who know nothing...

I don't think it's overacted at all...

Sorry to be so windy...

This movie absurdly over acted. grotesquely over acted. Every scene, it's like now it's this characters turn to scream and yell and throw things. The whole movie is ridiculose . The is grabbing for Emmys with both hands.