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UNDERRATED: Christopher Plummer

There are few late-career runs more unlikely yet as deserving as the 2011 enjoyed by this 82-year-old character actor. Plummer offered rich, memorable 2011 turns as <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB003182" title="Ewan McGregor" href="/topic/entertainment/movies/ewan-mcgregor-PECLB003182.topic">Ewan McGregor</a>'s sweetly just-out father in "Beginners" (pictured) and the dryly cynical Swedish employer of <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PECLB001169" title="Daniel Craig" href="/topic/entertainment/movies/daniel-craig-PECLB001169.topic">Daniel Craig</a>'s disgraced writer in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Both are a long way from "The Sound of Music" but are as sharply in-tune as ever.
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There are few late-career runs more unlikely yet as deserving as the 2011 enjoyed by this 82-year-old character actor. Plummer offered rich, memorable 2011 turns as Ewan McGregor's sweetly just-out father in "Beginners" (pictured) and the dryly cynical Swedish employer of Daniel Craig's disgraced writer in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." Both are a long way from "The Sound of Music" but are as sharply in-tune as ever.

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