The Ruffalo / Hanna / Rubinek / Partridge Overacting Award
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- Introduced as the Vincent Hanna give-me-all-you-got award for overacting; a controversial pick of Patricia Clarkson, who takes it too far asking whether Brandon is gay, like a slight nod to the Amy Poehler cool mom in Mean Girls.
- Olive showing her the door acknowledges she is a little much; everyone plays a heightened stereotype so the insults do not penetrate, so Clarkson being extra is okay.
- Lisa Kudrow is raised as the unneeded extra one, yelling in the who-would-you-believe scene.
- There is a fine line between Vincent Hanna and Dion Waiters; Kudrow arguably has a great heat check.
- Kudrow's character, the chlamydia and the marriage plot are unnecessary, as is Thomas Haden Church's teacher; a counterpoint says his character develops Olive as a thoughtful student (the bit about watching a movie version instead of reading the book) though his love life and flirting with Kudrow are weird.
- A theory: the script needed a teacher, Church wanted more to do, and that created the subplot; he is called the only non-hyperbolic performance, or instead demure by his standards.
- Another pick is Stanley Tucci, explained as wanting to hurt feelings the way the speaker's own were hurt; no consensus is reached.
- Loving Clarkson while acknowledging she could have done better is defended.