Kelly Parsons's "Doing Harm," the movie

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The entry begins:

I love movies. Some of my favorites include, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Searchers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Graduate, Raging Bull, and—because I’m a child of the eighties—Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back.

In fact, I frequently listen to movie soundtracks as I write, blocking out scenes in my head and imagining how they would play out on the big screen: gestures, facial expressions, choreography, even lighting.

So I’m a little embarrassed (and more than a little surprised) to admit that, until very recently, I had given almost no thought as to how I would cast Doing Harm. But here goes.

The lead role, Dr. Steve Mitchell, would preferably go to an actor in his late twenties to mid thirties. It needs to be someone who can look convincingly ordinary while invoking sympathy for a potentially unsympathetic protagonist: perhaps Andrew Garfield, James...[read on]

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