Effie Gray (opens in Cleveland April 3rd exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre)

[EFFIE GRAY opens in Cleveland on Friday April 3rd exclusively at the Cedar Lee Theatre.]

Review by Milan Paurich

Since I AM SAM, in which she played the preternaturally mature daughter of a mentally retarded parent (Sean Penn), Dakota Fanning has been cast—sometimes romantically, sometimes not—opposite older men. There was Denzel Washington shielding her from harm in MAN ON FIRE, the backwoods rapist who violently stole her pre-pubescent virginity in HOUNDDOG, Boyd Holbrook in VERY GOOD GIRLS, and, most recently, Kevin Kline’s dissipated Errol Flynn opposite Fanning’s jail bait-y Beverly Aadland in THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD.