41. That can be stagy , as when a maid is given the duty of imparting the court's final decision. 42. Another bad habit is the stagy , unrealistic speeches first-time screenwriter Sam Lowry has given some of the characters. 43. The movie was thought to be too stagy in its own day, but that's the charm for us now. 44. Kasi Lemmons'script has plenty of nice touches, but her sometimes stagy , sometimes pretentious direction often breaks its spell. 45. So, too, with movie dialogue, which needs to be every bit as artificial while never seeming at all stagy . 46. Where " Lost and Delirious " falters is in its increasingly idealized and stagy depiction of young love gone sour. 47. Mind games are what the characters in this stagy drama play with one another _ and what the movie plays with the audience. 48. But Still's dialogue is so hopelessly ham-handed and stagy that nothing they shout at each other sounds especially real. 49. But will Judd ever use this clout to find a role that proves there's a real actress beneath her stagy poses? 50. The seams of the movie's theatrical origins are glaringly evident in the solemn, stagy rhythms of Whaley's screenplay.
