Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

All About Steve/9/Extract/The Burning Plain/Big Fan (2009)

A.O. Scott: Self - Co-Host

Quotes 

• A.O. Scott : [reviewing "The Burning Plain"]  Kim Basinger plays her mother. Our next movie is "The Burning Plain", written and directed by Guillermo Arriaga. Charlize Theron stars as a sad restaurant hostess in Portland, Oregon in flight from her past. Is her name Sylvia? Or Mariana? So I say "Skip it". Birds fly through the air. As you may have noticed, I've scrambled up my review and presented it out of the usual order. I thought that that way, it would seem more profound and mysterious. But maybe you found it confusing, irritating, even pretentious. If that's the case, you have a pretty good idea of what it's like to sit through "The Burning Plain".