When someone says "
Leaves of Grass" does your body sing electric, lost in memories of glorious fragments from the pen of the great
Walt Whitman? Mine does. So, when I first heard that
Edward Norton was starring in
Leaves of Grass (2009) I thought we had a queer civil war era biopic on our hands. We don't get many of those.
Ed Norton and Ed Norton in Leaves of Grass (2009)
But unless Walt Whitman actually had a pot-smoking identical twin brother, this is not the
Leaves of Grass I'm thinking of. Presumably Hollywood didn't have poetry on its mind when it co-opted the famous title. Writer/Director/Actor
Tim Blake Nelson directs Norton in this comedic crime thriller about twins: one a college professor, the other a criminal. Should Edward call Lindsay Lohan (
Parent Trap) for tips? It's not like his new co-stars Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell and Susan Sarandon have ever played twins.
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