1.   Also, Washington felt that he could relate to the plight of the title character.

2.   Although the title character is a child, this is not a movie for children.

3.   And meet Vincent Ventresca, who stars as the title character, Darien Fawkes.

4.   And Russell, playing the impetuous, endearing, navel-gazing title character, has become a star more or less overnight.

5.   As portrayed by the incomparable Donal McCann, the title character envisioned his own end with a voice that seemed to come from an unending purgatory of self-inflicted pain.

6.   As the ranting father of the title character, Herzog goes enthusiastically over the top.

7.   As the title character, Chaykin is thoroughly melodramatic and fustian -- a Wolfe in anything but sheepish clothing.

8.   As the title character, Flockhart plays a Harvard-educated brain and bundle of neuroses who tends to win at law while losing at love.

9.   As the title character, Russell naturally got a more concentrated version of the hype.

10.   At the same time he is less negative in his portrayal of his title character than many others who have written or spoken about him.