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Created Jul 08, 2007 02:18PM PST • Edited Jul 08, 2007 02:18PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Pleasantly amusing for fans of the radio show, and well stocked with adept performances by first rate performers like Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin.

4. Acting

   Very Good 3.5

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

   Streep and Tomlin working together as a highly mannered sister act is worth the price of admission all by itself.

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Good 3.0

11. Direction Good 3.0

12. Play Good 3.0

13. Music Great 4.0

14. Visuals OK 2.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.5

17. Sex Innocent 1.3

18. Violence Gentle 1.2

19. Rudeness Salty 2.0

    ‘In the most delightful way’ as Mary Poppins would put it.

21. Reality

    Glib 1.2

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.5

    Why not? Other than radio theater being a dead letter on other than NPR.

23. Biological Natural 1.0

24. Physical Natural 1.0