The same year, Dinklage appeared in the British romantic comedy "Penelope" playing Lemon, a tabloid reporter.
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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20140906083215/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/movies/29pene.html?_r=0 campaign: inyt2014_bar1_digi_sept_flash_can_49J76 -- 254706, creative: inyt2014_bar1_digi_sept_flash_can_49J76 -- 380826, page: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/movies/29pene.html, targetedPage: www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/movies, position: Bar1 Log In Register Now Home Page Today's Paper Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com ## Movies N.Y. / Region Real Estate Search Movies, People and Showtimes by ZIP Code ##### More in Movies » In Theaters Coming Soon Critics' Picks On DVD Tickets & Showtimes ###### Movie Review | 'Penelope' ## Penelope (2006) Laurie Sparham/Summit Entertainment James McAvoy and Christina Ricci star in "Penelope," directed by Mark Palansky. # Cursed With a Face Only a Sow Could Love ###### By STEPHEN HOLDEN ###### Published: February 29, 2008 Sign In to E-Mail "Cinderella" meets "The Ugly Duckling" in "Penelope," a muddled, charm-free fairy tale whose title character, played by Christina Ricci, is a rich girl born with the snout of a pig. ### More About This Movie New York Times Review Cast, Credits & Awards Trailers & Clips View Clip... The movie's fundamental flaws begin with Penelope's appearance. She is supposed to be so hideous that potential suitors dive out of the windows of her family's London mansion at the first sight of her. After an encounter one greedy twit, Edward Vanderman (Simon Woods), goes to the newspapers with a tale of being attacked by a fanged monster, but nobody believes him. In actuality Penelope Wilhern, who is hidden away in the house by her snobbish parents, Jessica (Catherine O'Hara) and Franklin (Richard E. Grant), is more adorable than Miss Piggy. Her nose, through which runs a carotid artery (thus precluding cosmetic surgery), is well-shaped, symmetrical and cutely turned up. Ms. Ricci plays her as a smart, hardheaded young woman who stoically accepts her fate. She suffers from an ancient family curse that can be lifted, she is told, only when she marries a man of equivalent social station. There are no takers. The movie takes a wrong turn when Edward, ridiculed for his horror story, teams up with Lemon (Peter Dinklage), a tabloid journalist wearing an eye patch, to prove her existence. They recruit Max (James McAvoy), a down-and-out aristocrat with gambling debts, to court Penelope and photograph her. Max fails to produce a picture, but in their brief encounter a spark is struck. Penelope, desperate to experience the real world, eventually runs away from home with a scarf wrapped over her nose and is befriended by Annie, a tough-talking bike messenger played by Reese Witherspoon (one of the movie's producers in a thankless cameo performance). Once Penelope's identity is discovered, she becomes a tabloid celebrity. Directed by Mark Palansky from a screenplay by Leslie Caveny, "Penelope" is a hopeless jumble of visual and linguistic styles. Its Tim Burton-manqué look combines old-fashioned storybook London with a 21st-century cityscape, and the characters speak in a welter of accents (British and American and in between). This is a movie in which even Ms. O'Hara, whose twinkling sense of mischief can make almost anything funny, is comically stymied. Without humor the movie's messages about self-acceptance, snobbery and a paparazzi-infected media register as annoyingly smug. How much better "Penelope" might have been if it were animated, with a "Shrek"-worthy heroine who could magically transform. "Penelope" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested.) It has some strong language. Opens on Friday nationwide. Directed by Mark Palansky; written by Leslie Caveny; director of photography, Michel Amathieu; edited by Jon Gregory; produced by Reese Witherspoon, Scott Steindorff and Jennifer Simpson; released by Summit Entertainment. Running time: 1 hour 30 minutes. WITH: Christina Ricci (Penelope Wilhern), James McAvoy (Johnny/Max), Catherine O'Hara (Jessica Wilhern), Peter Dinklage (Lemon), Richard E. Grant (Franklin Wilhern), Simon Woods (Edward Vanderman) and Reese Witherspoon (Annie). ###### A version of this review appeared in print on February 29, 2008, on page E18 of the New York edition with the headline: Cursed With a Face Only a Sow Could Love. Sign In to E-Mail ##### Get Free E-mail Alerts on These Topics Motion Pictures Ricci, Christina McAvoy, James More Theaters Near You » #### Inside NYTimes.com ###### Movies » ###### Cult Hits, Carnage and Even Chaplin ###### Sports » ###### Main Concern for Aces: Batters, Not Each Other ###### Real Estate » ###### The Hunt | Two-Bedroom Trial Balloon ###### Opinion » ### Op-Ed: Russia Turns Back the Clock Vladimir V. 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Peter Dinklage
Career.:Breakthrough (2003–2010).
In 2005, he starred in the short-lived CBS science fiction series "Threshold" and appeared as a wedding planner in the comedy film "The Baxter". He also made an appearance in the adventure comedy-drama "Lassie" as a traveling circus performer. The film received highly positive reviews, though it did not fare well at the box office. 
 In 2006, Dinklage co-starred with Vin Diesel in "Find Me Guilty", a courtroom drama directed by Sidney Lumet. The film tells the true story of the longest Mafia trial in American history; Dinklage played Ben Klandis, the lead defense attorney. Critical reaction to the film was mostly positive, though it was a commercial failure. Writing for "Chicago Sun-Times", film critic Roger Ebert praised Dinklage's performance, saying that the character he plays stands apart as "concise, articulate and professional." The same year, he portrayed the character Marlowe Sawyer in episodes of "Nip/Tuck". He played a fictionalized version of himself in an episode of the HBO series "Entourage" and appeared in NBC's "30 Rock" as Stewart.