11:25 a.m.
Author: norman.richards(a)jboss.com
Date: 2009-02-19 12:25:24 -0500 (Thu, 19 Feb 2009)
New Revision: 10059
Modified:
trunk/examples/dvdstore/resources/import.sql
Log:
JBSEAM-3943
Modified: trunk/examples/dvdstore/resources/import.sql
===================================================================
--- trunk/examples/dvdstore/resources/import.sql 2009-02-19 16:18:48 UTC (rev 10058)
+++ trunk/examples/dvdstore/resources/import.sql 2009-02-19 17:25:24 UTC (rev 10059)
@@ -110,14 +110,14 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (2, 10);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (2, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (2, 2, 77, 9);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('3', 'B00000IQW5', 'Always', 19.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IQW5.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Considered by
many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg''s career, 1990''s
Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director''s sensibility.
A remake of the classic Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard
Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse
wildfires from a plane. After promising his frightened fiancée (Holly Hunter)
to keep his feet on the ground and go into teaching, Dreyfuss''s character is
killed during one last flight. But his spirit wanders restlessly, hopelessly attached to
and possessive of Hunter, who can''t see or hear him. Then the real conflict
begins: a trainee pilot (Brad Johnson), a likable doofus, begins wooing a
not-unappreciative Hunter');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('3', 'B00000IQW5', 'Always', 19.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IQW5.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Considered by
many to represent a low point in Steven Spielberg''s career, 1990''s
Always did suggest something of a temporary drift in the director''s sensibility.
A remake of the classic Spencer Tracy film A Guy Named Joe, Always stars Richard
Dreyfuss as a Forest Service pilot who takes great risks with his own life to douse
wildfires from a plane. After promising his frightened fiance (Holly Hunter) to keep his
feet on the ground and go into teaching, Dreyfuss''s character is killed during
one last flight. But his spirit wanders restlessly, hopelessly attached to and possessive
of Hunter, who can''t see or hear him. Then the real conflict begins: a trainee
pilot (Brad Johnson), a likable doofus, begins wooing a not-unappreciative Hunter');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (3, 68)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (3, 2);
insert into CATEGORIES (CATEGORY, NAME) values (11, 'Feature Film-drama');
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (3, 11);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (3, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (3, 3, 79, 15);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('4', 'B000BTGY1O', 'Breakfast at Tiffany''s ', 19.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BTGY1O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'No film
better utilizes Audrey Hepburn''s flighty charm and svelte beauty than this
romantic adaptation of Truman Capote''s novella. Hepburn''s urban
sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is
a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her
upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older
woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and
threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with
Capote''s bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George
Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a
frustrated romantic with a secret past!
and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song
"Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole
film is Mickey Rooney''s demeaning performance as the apartment''s
Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film
has weathered the decades well. Edwards''s elegant yet light touch,
Axelrod''s generous screenplay, and Hepburn''s mix of knowing experience
and naiveté combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined
slice of high society bohemian chic. ');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('4', 'B000BTGY1O', 'Breakfast at Tiffany''s ', 19.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BTGY1O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'No film
better utilizes Audrey Hepburn''s flighty charm and svelte beauty than this
romantic adaptation of Truman Capote''s novella. Hepburn''s urban
sophisticate Holly Golightly, an enchanting neurotic living off the gifts of gentlemen, is
a bewitching figure in designer dresses and costume jewelry. George Peppard is her
upstairs neighbor, a struggling writer and "kept" man financed by a steely older
woman (Patricia Neal). His growing friendship with the lonely Holly soon turns to love and
threatens the delicate balance of both of their compromised lives. Taking liberties with
Capote''s bittersweet story, director Blake Edwards and screenwriter George
Axelrod turn New York into a city of lovers and create a poignant portrait of Holly, a
frustrated romantic with a secret past!
and a hidden vulnerability. Composer Henry Mancini earned Oscars for the hit song
"Moon River" and his tastefully romantic score. The only sour note in the whole
film is Mickey Rooney''s demeaning performance as the apartment''s
Japanese manager, an offensively overdone stereotype even in 1961. The rest of the film
has weathered the decades well. Edwards''s elegant yet light touch,
Axelrod''s generous screenplay, and Hepburn''s mix of knowing experience
and naivete; combine to create one of the great screen romances and a refined slice of
high society bohemian chic. ');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (4, 68)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (4, 8);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (4, 9);
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (13, 19);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (13, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (13, 13, 87, 2);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('14', 'B000B8QG0O', 'Toy Story 2 ', 29.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B8QG0O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'John Lasseter
and his gang of high-tech creators at Pixar create another entertainment for the ages.
Like the few great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was
so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting
becomes the focus here, as we find out Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved
toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular ''60s children''s show.
When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission
with Andy''s other toys. To say more would be a crime because this is one of the
most creative and smile-inducing films since, well, the first Toy Story. Although the
toys look the same as in the 1994 feature, Pixar shows how much technology has advanced:
the human c!
haracters look more human, backgrounds are superior, and two action sequences that
book-end the film are dazzling. And it''s a hoot for kids and adults. The film is
packed with spoofs, easily accessible in-jokes, and inspired voice casting (with newcomer
Joan Cusack especially a delight as Cowgirl Jessie). But as the Pixar canon of films
illustrates, the filmmakers are storytellers first. Woody''s heart-tugging
predicament can easily be translated into the eternal debate of living a good life versus
living forever. Toy Story 2 also achieved something in the U.S. two other
outstanding 1999 animated features (The Iron Giant, Princess Mononoke) could not: it
became a huge box-office hit. ');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('14', 'B000B8QG0O', 'Toy Story 2 ', 29.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000B8QG0O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'John Lasseter
and his gang of high-tech creators at Pixar create another entertainment for the ages.
Like the few great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so
wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting
becomes the focus here, as we find out Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved
toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular ''60s children''s show.
When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission
with Andy''s other toys. To say more would be a crime because this is one of the
most creative and smile-inducing films since, well, the first Toy Story. Although the
toys look the same as in the 1994 feature, Pixar shows how much technology has advanced:
the human charac!
ters look more human, backgrounds are superior, and two action sequences that book-end
the film are dazzling. And it''s a hoot for kids and adults. The film is packed
with spoofs, easily accessible in-jokes, and inspired voice casting (with newcomer Joan
Cusack especially a delight as Cowgirl Jessie). But as the Pixar canon of films
illustrates, the filmmakers are storytellers first. Woody''s heart-tugging
predicament can easily be translated into the eternal debate of living a good life versus
living forever. Toy Story 2 also achieved something in the U.S. two other outstanding
1999 animated features (The Iron Giant, Princess Mononoke) could not: it became a huge
box-office hit. ');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (14, 1)
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (14, 11)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (14, 18);
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (16, 12);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (16, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (16, 16, 35, 4);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('17', '6305368171', 'You''ve Got Mail', 12.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305368171.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'By now, Tom
Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new
onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You''ve Got Mail, the
quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made
Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron''s previous excursion with the
duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but
Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature''s gentle, extended tease of saving its
romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. The underlying narrative is an even more
old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The
script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the
Ernst Lubitsc!
h classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks)
is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller,
more specialized shops such as the children''s bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly
(Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighborhood, yet they
first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate
correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to
be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes.
It''s no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about
them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their
chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling
director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous soufflé, this time around
there''s a slow leak that considerably deflates th!
e affair. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe''s logic in prolon
ging the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at
Ephron''s reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where
everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and color coordinates their wardrobes for
cocktail parties. ');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('17', '6305368171', 'You''ve Got Mail', 12.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6305368171.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'By now, Tom
Hanks and Meg Ryan have amassed such a fund of goodwill with moviegoers that any new
onscreen pairing brings nearly reflexive smiles. In You''ve Got Mail, the
quintessential boy and girl next door repeat the tentative romantic crescendo that made
Sleepless in Seattle, writer-director Nora Ephron''s previous excursion with the
duo, a massive hit. The prospective couple do actually meet face to face early on, but
Mail otherwise repeats the earlier feature''s gentle, extended tease of saving its
romantic resolution until the final, gauzy shot. The underlying narrative is an even more
old-fashioned romantic pas de deux that is casually hooked to a newfangled device. The
script, cowritten by the director and her sister, Delia Ephron, updates and relocates the
Ernst Lubitsc!
h classic, The Shop Around the Corner, to contemporary Manhattan, where Joe Fox (Hanks)
is a cheerfully rapacious merchant whose chain of book superstores is gobbling up smaller,
more specialized shops such as the children''s bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly
(Ryan). Their lives run in close parallel in the same idealized neighborhood, yet they
first meet anonymously, online, where they gradually nurture a warm, even intimate
correspondence. As they begin to wonder whether this e-mail flirtation might lead them to
be soul mates, however, they meet and clash over their colliding business fortunes.
It''s no small testament to the two stars that we wind up liking and caring about
them despite the inevitable (and highly manipulative) arc of the plot. Although their
chemistry transcended the consciously improbable romantic premise of Sleepless, enabling
director Ephron to attain a kind of amorous souffle, this time around there''s a
slow leak that considerably deflates the aff!
air. Less credulous viewers will challenge Joe''s logic in prolonging
the concealment of his online identity from Kathleen, and may shake their heads at
Ephron''s reinvention of Manhattan as a spotless, sun-dappled wonderland where
everybody lives in million-dollar apartments and color coordinates their wardrobes for
cocktail parties. ');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (17, 1)
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (17, 19)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (17, 7);
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (28, 16);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (28, 17);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (28, 28, 15, 7);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('29', 'B00006ZXSK', 'Ever After - A Cinderella Story', 19.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ZXSK.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Take away the
Fairy Godmother, and what have you got left from the Cinderella fable? The story of a girl
for whom a bad stroke of luck is no match for her internal strength and purity of heart.
Drew Barrymore plays Cinderella''s alleged inspiration, Danielle, in this romantic
drama that purports to tell the "facts" behind the Grimm brothers''
story. One of three daughters of a man (Jeroen Krabbé) who dies and leaves her
fate in the hands of a conniving stepmother (Anjelica Huston), Danielle is cast into the
lowly role of a servant. Meanwhile, her sisters are evaluated as possible mates for a
French prince (Dougray Scott), but he''s far more intrigued with
Danielle''s intelligence and beauty');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('29', 'B00006ZXSK', 'Ever After - A Cinderella Story', 19.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ZXSK.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Take away the
Fairy Godmother, and what have you got left from the Cinderella fable? The story of a girl
for whom a bad stroke of luck is no match for her internal strength and purity of heart.
Drew Barrymore plays Cinderella''s alleged inspiration, Danielle, in this romantic
drama that purports to tell the "facts" behind the Grimm brothers''
story. One of three daughters of a man (Jeroen Krabbe) who dies and leaves her fate in the
hands of a conniving stepmother (Anjelica Huston), Danielle is cast into the lowly role of
a servant. Meanwhile, her sisters are evaluated as possible mates for a French prince
(Dougray Scott), but he''s far more intrigued with Danielle''s
intelligence and beauty');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (29, 3)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (29, 2);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (29, 19);
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
insert into CATEGORIES (CATEGORY, NAME) values (26, 'Science Fiction');
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (32, 26);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (32, 32, 98, 23);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('33', 'B00006ZXSL', 'Never Been Kissed', 14.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ZXSL.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Let''s get this straight: Drew Barrymore started a production company to
develop original scripts outside of Hollywood and the first project she chose to produce
was this, a romantic comedy written by USC grads Abby Kohn and Mark Silverstein about a
nerdy, virginal woman who returns to high school as an undercover reporter, finally gets
to be popular, and falls in love. And Barrymore decided, as producer, that the perfect
actress to play this virtuous, clean-cut, and downright annoying geek would be... Drew
Barrymore? It''s hard to believe that after The Wedding Singer
Barrymore''s not getting enough dopey, formulaic, predictable romantic comedies
coming across her desk. The complete inability to buy Barrymore as unattractive, awkward,
and unpopular ruins Never Been Kissed from the!
start, but it''s doubtful a better actress could have saved it. The jokes fall
flat, the romance between Barrymore and her English teacher (played by Michael Vartan)
lacks chemistry, and the portrayals of high school and the newspaper newsroom is
clichéd and uninspired (big surprise here: the director, Raja Gosnell,
previously made Home Alone 3). Gosnell can''t even give the gifted character
actor, John C. Reilly, anything to do. Only David Arquette, who plays Barrymore''s
out-of-control brother, brings any energy to the film. ');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('33', 'B00006ZXSL', 'Never Been Kissed', 14.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006ZXSL.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Let''s get this straight: Drew Barrymore started a production company to
develop original scripts outside of Hollywood and the first project she chose to produce
was this, a romantic comedy written by USC grads Abby Kohn and Mark Silverstein about a
nerdy, virginal woman who returns to high school as an undercover reporter, finally gets
to be popular, and falls in love. And Barrymore decided, as producer, that the perfect
actress to play this virtuous, clean-cut, and downright annoying geek would be... Drew
Barrymore? It''s hard to believe that after The Wedding Singer
Barrymore''s not getting enough dopey, formulaic, predictable romantic comedies
coming across her desk. The complete inability to buy Barrymore as unattractive, awkward,
and unpopular ruins Never Been Kissed from the!
start, but it''s doubtful a better actress could have saved it. The jokes fall
flat, the romance between Barrymore and her English teacher (played by Michael Vartan)
lacks chemistry, and the portrayals of high school and the newspaper newsroom is cliced
and uninspired (big surprise here: the director, Raja Gosnell, previously made Home Alone
3). Gosnell can''t even give the gifted character actor, John C. Reilly, anything
to do. Only David Arquette, who plays Barrymore''s out-of-control brother, brings
any energy to the film. ');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (33, 3)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (33, 7);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (33, 8);
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (39, 19);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (39, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (39, 39, 80, 6);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('40', 'B00003CXI1', 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone
', 19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXI1.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Here''s an event movie that holds up to being an event. This filmed version
of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, adapted from the wildly popular book by
J.K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter''s world of Hogwarts, the
school for young witches and wizards. The greatest strength of the film comes from its
faithfulness to the novel, and this new cinematic world is filled with all the details of
Rowling''s imagination, thanks to exuberant sets, elaborate costumes, clever
makeup and visual effects, and a crème de la crème cast, including
Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, and more. Especially fine is the interplay
between Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his schoolmates Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma
Watson), as well as!
his protector, the looming Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). The second-half adventure');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('40', 'B00003CXI1', 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone
', 19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXI1.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Here''s an event movie that holds up to being an event. This filmed version
of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, adapted from the wildly popular book by
J.K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter''s world of Hogwarts, the
school for young witches and wizards. The greatest strength of the film comes from its
faithfulness to the novel, and this new cinematic world is filled with all the details of
Rowling''s imagination, thanks to exuberant sets, elaborate costumes, clever
makeup and visual effects, and a creme de la creme cast, including Maggie Smith, Richard
Harris, Alan Rickman, and more. Especially fine is the interplay between Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) and his schoolmates Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), as well as
his protector!
, the looming Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). The second-half adventure');
insert into PRODUCT_ACTORS (PROD_ID,ACTOR_ID) values (40, 4)
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (40, 27);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (40, 15);
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (40, 19);
insert into PRODUCT_CATEGORY (PROD_ID, CATEGORY) values (40, 4);
insert into INVENTORY (INV_ID, PROD_ID, QUAN_IN_STOCK, SALES) values (40, 40, 20, 13);
-insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('41', 'B00005JMAH', 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ',
19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JMAH.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Some
movie-loving wizards must have cast a magic spell on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban, because it''s another grand slam for the Harry Potter franchise.
Demonstrating remarkable versatility after the arthouse success of Y Tu Mamá
También, director Alfonso Cuarón proves a perfect choice to guide
Harry, Hermione, and Ron into treacherous puberty as the now 13-year-old students at
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry face a new and daunting challenge: Sirius Black
(Gary Oldman) has escaped from Azkaban prison, and for reasons yet unknown (unless, of
course, you''ve read J.K. Rowling''s book, considered by many to be the
best in the series), he''s after Harry in a bid for revenge. This dark and
dangerous mystery drives the !
action while Harry (the fast-growing Daniel Radcliffe) and his third-year Hogwarts
classmates discover the flying hippogriff Buckbeak (a marvelous CGI creature), the
benevolent but enigmatic Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), horrifying black-robed
Dementors, sneaky Peter Pettigrew (Timothy Spall), and the wonderful advantage of having a
Time-Turner just when you need one. The familiar Hogwarts staff returns in fine form
(including the delightful Michael Gambon, replacing the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore,
and Emma Thompson as the goggle-eyed Sybil Trelawney), and even Julie Christie joins this
prestigious production for a brief but welcome cameo. Technically dazzling, fast-paced,
and chock-full of Rowling''s boundless imagination (loyally adapted by ace
screenwriter Steve Kloves), The Prisoner of Azkaban is a Potter-movie classic. ');
+insert into PRODUCTS (PROD_ID, ASIN, TITLE, PRICE, IMAGE_URL, DESCRIPTION) values
('41', 'B00005JMAH', 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ',
19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JMAH.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Some
movie-loving wizards must have cast a magic spell on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban, because it''s another grand slam for the Harry Potter franchise.
Demonstrating remarkable versatility after the arthouse success of Y Tu Mama Tambien,
director Alfonso Cuaron proves a perfect choice to guide Harry, Hermione, and Ron into
treacherous puberty as the now 13-year-old students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and
Wizardry face a new and daunting challenge: Sirius Black (Gary Oldman) has escaped from
Azkaban prison, and for reasons yet unknown (unless, of course, you''ve read J.K.
Rowling''s book, considered by many to be the best in the series), he''s
after Harry in a bid for revenge. This dark and dangerous mystery drives the action while
Harry (t!
he fast-growing Daniel Radcliffe) and his third-year Hogwarts classmates discover the
flying hippogriff Buckbeak (a marvelous CGI creature), the benevolent but enigmatic
Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), horrifying black-robed Dementors, sneaky Peter Pettigrew
(Timothy Spall), and the wonderful advantage of having a Time-Turner just when you need
one. The familiar Hogwarts staff returns in fine form (including the delightful Michael
Gambon, replacing the late Richard Harris as Dumbledore, and Emma Thompson as the
goggle-eyed Sybil Trelawney), and even Julie Christie joins this prestigious production
for a brief but welcome cameo. Technically dazzling, fast-paced, and chock-full of
Rowling''s boundless imagination (loyally adapted by ace screenwriter Steve
Kloves), The Prisoner of Azkaban is a Potter-movie classic. ');
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filmed version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer''s Stone, adapted from the wildly
popular book by J.K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter''s world of
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The greatest strength of the film comes from
its faithfulness to the novel, and this new cinematic world is filled with all the details
of Rowling''s imagination, thanks to exuberant sets, elaborate costumes, clever
makeup and visual effects, and a crème de la crème cast, including
Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, and more. Especially fine is the interplay
between Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his schoolmates Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma
Watson), as well as his protector, the looming Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). The second-half
ad!
venture');
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popular book by J.K. Rowling, stunningly brings to life Harry Potter''s world of
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The greatest strength of the film comes from
its faithfulness to the novel, and this new cinematic world is filled with all the details
of Rowling''s imagination, thanks to exuberant sets, elaborate costumes, clever
makeup and visual effects, and a creme de la creme cast, including Maggie Smith, Richard
Harris, Alan Rickman, and more. Especially fine is the interplay between Harry (Daniel
Radcliffe) and his schoolmates Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson), as well as
his protector, the looming Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane). The second-half adventure');
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always a gamble, so it''s a pleasant surprise that Fun with Dick and Jane pays off
with unexpected dividends. It''s as entertaining as the 1977 original starring
George Segal and Jane Fonda, and the teaming of Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni makes
this a safe bet for comedy fans, in spite of a slapstick screenplay that fails to achieve
its fullest potential. Rather than attempt a darkly comedic send-up of the Enron scandal
that left thousands of stockholders in financial ruin, director Dean Parisot (Galaxy
Quest) opts for a lighter, more accessible (read: commercial) satire of corporate greed
and cynicism, beginning in the year 2000 when Dick (Carrey) gets a plum promotion as a
mega-corporate communications director just as his boss (Alec Baldwin) is preparing to
bail !
out before stock prices plummet. Dick''s wife Jane (Leoni) has quit her job as a
travel agent, so the corporate bombshell leaves them penniless and desperate, resorting to
petty thievery and, eventually, plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives
who ruined their lives. As a send-up of financial distress in a ravaged post-Enron
economy, Fun with Dick and Jane delivers laughs with just enough pointed humor to give it
a strong satirical edge, and Carrey''s reliable brand of zaniness is controlled
enough to balance nicely with Leoni''s more subtle (and woefully underrated)
skills as a screen comedienne. And while the "special thanks" end-credits hint
at the sharper, more biting satire this might have been, there’s enough fun with
Dick and Jane to make this recycled comedy worth a look. ');
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always a gamble, so it''s a pleasant surprise that Fun with Dick and Jane pays off
with unexpected dividends. It''s as entertaining as the 1977 original starring
George Segal and Jane Fonda, and the teaming of Jim Carrey and Tia Leoni makes this a safe
bet for comedy fans, in spite of a slapstick screenplay that fails to achieve its fullest
potential. Rather than attempt a darkly comedic send-up of the Enron scandal that left
thousands of stockholders in financial ruin, director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) opts for
a lighter, more accessible (read: commercial) satire of corporate greed and cynicism,
beginning in the year 2000 when Dick (Carrey) gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate
communications director just as his boss (Alec Baldwin) is preparing to bail out b!
efore stock prices plummet. Dick''s wife Jane (Leoni) has quit her job as a
travel agent, so the corporate bombshell leaves them penniless and desperate, resorting to
petty thievery and, eventually, plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives
who ruined their lives. As a send-up of financial distress in a ravaged post-Enron
economy, Fun with Dick and Jane delivers laughs with just enough pointed humor to give it
a strong satirical edge, and Carrey''s reliable brand of zaniness is controlled
enough to balance nicely with Leoni''s more subtle (and woefully underrated)
skills as a screen comedienne. And while the "special thanks" end-credits hint
at the sharper, more biting satire this might have been, there''s enough fun with
Dick and Jane to make this recycled comedy worth a look. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXE4.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'In Me, Myself
& Irene, Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a cop for the best police force in the
world (Rhode Island). In denial about his wife''s affair, he''s a nice
guy who goes around trying to do the right thing but is taken advantage of every step of
the way. Instead of confronting people, he takes the abuse, balls it up, and hides it in
the pit of his stomach. His psyche can only take so much, though, and soon his alter-ego
Hank pops out to do every libidinous thing Charlie would never do. It''s a great
premise for a Jim Carrey film. Unfortunately, it''s not a great Jim Carrey film.
Famous for the lowbrow, shock comedies like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There''s
Something About Mary, here the Farrelly brothers get lost in a series of lazy gags and an
even lazier p!
lot about some evil golf development and the woman, Irene (Renée Zellweger), who
needs to be protected because she knows something about it. Some of the jokes hit
(there''s a bathroom scene that''s 10 times funnier than the hair-gel gag
in There''s Something About Mary), but many more miss. There are some great
concepts (his three sons are hip-hop geniuses) that don''t go anywhere (they swear
a lot). It''s like the movie itself has a split personality');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXE4.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'In Me, Myself
& Irene, Jim Carrey plays Charlie Baileygates, a cop for the best police force in the
world (Rhode Island). In denial about his wife''s affair, he''s a nice
guy who goes around trying to do the right thing but is taken advantage of every step of
the way. Instead of confronting people, he takes the abuse, balls it up, and hides it in
the pit of his stomach. His psyche can only take so much, though, and soon his alter-ego
Hank pops out to do every libidinous thing Charlie would never do. It''s a great
premise for a Jim Carrey film. Unfortunately, it''s not a great Jim Carrey film.
Famous for the lowbrow, shock comedies like Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, and There''s
Something About Mary, here the Farrelly brothers get lost in a series of lazy gags and an
even lazier p!
lot about some evil golf development and the woman, Irene (Rene Zellweger), who needs to
be protected because she knows something about it. Some of the jokes hit (there''s
a bathroom scene that''s 10 times funnier than the hair-gel gag in
There''s Something About Mary), but many more miss. There are some great concepts
(his three sons are hip-hop geniuses) that don''t go anywhere (they swear a lot).
It''s like the movie itself has a split personality');
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dream, Sofia Coppola''s Lost in Translation envelops you with an aura of fantastic
light, moody sound, head-turning love, and a feeling of déjà vu,
even though you''ve probably never been to this neon-fused version of Tokyo.
Certainly Bob Harris has not. The 50-ish actor has signed on for big money shooting
whiskey ads instead of doing something good for his career or his long-distance family.
Jetlagged, helplessly lost with his Japanese-speaking director, and out of sync with the
metropolis, Harris (Bill Murray, never better) befriends the married but lovelorn
25-year-old Charlotte (played with heaps of poise by 18-year-old Scarlett Johansson). Even
before her photographer husband all but abandons her, she is adrift like Harris but in a
total entrapmen!
t of youth. How Charlotte and Bill discover they are soul mates will be cherished for
years to come. Written and directed by Coppola (The Virgin Suicides), the film is far more
atmospheric than plot-driven: we whiz through Tokyo parties, karaoke bars, and odd
nightlife, always ending up in the impossibly posh hotel where the two are staying. The
wisps of bittersweet loneliness of Bill and Charlotte are handled smartly and
romantically, but unlike modern studio films, this isn''t a May-November fling
film. Surely and steadily, the film ends on a much-talked-about grace note, which may burn
some, yet awards film lovers who "always had Paris" with another cinematic
destination of the heart. ');
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light, moody sound, head-turning love, and a feeling of deja vu, even though
you''ve probably never been to this neon-fused version of Tokyo. Certainly Bob
Harris has not. The 50-ish actor has signed on for big money shooting whiskey ads instead
of doing something good for his career or his long-distance family. Jetlagged, helplessly
lost with his Japanese-speaking director, and out of sync with the metropolis, Harris
(Bill Murray, never better) befriends the married but lovelorn 25-year-old Charlotte
(played with heaps of poise by 18-year-old Scarlett Johansson). Even before her
photographer husband all but abandons her, she is adrift like Harris but in a total
entrapment of youth. Ho!
w Charlotte and Bill discover they are soul mates will be cherished for years to come.
Written and directed by Coppola (The Virgin Suicides), the film is far more atmospheric
than plot-driven: we whiz through Tokyo parties, karaoke bars, and odd nightlife, always
ending up in the impossibly posh hotel where the two are staying. The wisps of bittersweet
loneliness of Bill and Charlotte are handled smartly and romantically, but unlike modern
studio films, this isn''t a May-November fling film. Surely and steadily, the film
ends on a much-talked-about grace note, which may burn some, yet awards film lovers who
"always had Paris" with another cinematic destination of the heart. ');
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a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it
can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every
cinematic "homage," you''d be tanked after Just Cause''s first
45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely
photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a
bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of
plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on
Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a
Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate
(Blair Underwood), who swear!
s he didn''t rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because
maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian
roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbor on death row (Harris) committed the crime.
Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who
made the lackluster Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations.
Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Clue
gameboard. ');
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('59', '0790740796', 'Just Cause', 12.98,
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can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every
cinematic "homage," you''d be tanked after Just Cause''s first
45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely
photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a
bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of
plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on
Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a
Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate
(Blair Underwood), who swears he !
didn''t rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because
maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian
roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbor on death row (Harris) committed the crime.
Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who
made the lackluster Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations.
Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Clue
gameboard. ');
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('77', 'B000EMGJ7C', 'The Family Stone ', 29.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EMGJ7C.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'For anyone
who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers
plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha''s slapstick
premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiancé Meredith (Sarah
Jessica Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It''s an instant disaster
when parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf
son Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), pot-smoking son Ben (Luke
Wilson) and daughters Amy (Rachel McAdams) and Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) that Meredith
is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Meredith recruits her sister Julie
(Claire Danes) to help her thaw the Stone family cold front, and after building a solid
emotional fou!
ndation for his holiday comedy, Bezucha starts to stack the deck with plot developments
that, while heartwarming, border on the absurd. You either go with the movie''s
flow or you don''t, and with this appealing cast (featuring some really nice work
by Keaton, Nelson, Parker and Danes) it''s easy to forgive Bezucha''s
unlikely blend of yuletide cheer, petty animosities, and romantic tables turned in the
blink of an eye. Toss in a case of terminal illness and you''ve got a sad-happy
tearjerker that works in spite of itself. If you don''t recognize at least part of
your own holiday clan in The Family Stone, you probably haven''t been paying
attention. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EMGJ7C.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'For anyone
who views holiday gatherings with equal parts joy and dread, The Family Stone offers
plenty of comedy to identify with. Writer-director Thomas Bezucha''s slapstick
premise begins when Everett (Dermot Mulroney) brings his fiance; Meredith (Sarah Jessica
Parker) home to meet his family for Christmas. It''s an instant disaster when
parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T. Nelson) agree with their gay, deaf son
Thad (Ty Giordano, who is actually hearing impaired), pot-smoking son Ben (Luke Wilson)
and daughters Amy (Rachel McAdams) and Susannah (Elizabeth Reaser) that Meredith is way
too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Meredith recruits her sister Julie (Claire
Danes) to help her thaw the Stone family cold front, and after building a solid emotional
foundat!
ion for his holiday comedy, Bezucha starts to stack the deck with plot developments that,
while heartwarming, border on the absurd. You either go with the movie''s flow or
you don''t, and with this appealing cast (featuring some really nice work by
Keaton, Nelson, Parker and Danes) it''s easy to forgive Bezucha''s
unlikely blend of yuletide cheer, petty animosities, and romantic tables turned in the
blink of an eye. Toss in a case of terminal illness and you''ve got a sad-happy
tearjerker that works in spite of itself. If you don''t recognize at least part of
your own holiday clan in The Family Stone, you probably haven''t been paying
attention. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JKWJ.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Aptly
described by critic Roger Ebert as "a vomitorium of viscera," Blade II takes the
express route to sequel success. So if you enjoyed Blade, you''ll probably drool
over this monster mash, which is anything but boring. Set (and filmed) in Prague, the plot
finds a new crop of "Reaper" vampires threatening to implement a viral breeding
program, and they''re nearly impervious to attacks by Blade (Wesley Snipes), his
now-revived mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), and a small army of "normal"
vampires who routinely combust in a constant conflagration of spectacular special effects.
It''s up to Blade to conquer the über-vamps, and both Snipes and director
Guillermo del Toro (Mimic) serve up a nonstop smorgasbord of intensely choreographed
action, creepy makeup, and graphic ultraviolen!
ce. It''s sadistic, juvenile, numbing, and');
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described by critic Roger Ebert as "a vomitorium of viscera," Blade II takes the
express route to sequel success. So if you enjoyed Blade, you''ll probably drool
over this monster mash, which is anything but boring. Set (and filmed) in Prague, the plot
finds a new crop of "Reaper" vampires threatening to implement a viral breeding
program, and they''re nearly impervious to attacks by Blade (Wesley Snipes), his
now-revived mentor Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), and a small army of "normal"
vampires who routinely combust in a constant conflagration of spectacular special effects.
It''s up to Blade to conquer the vamps, and both Snipes and director Guillermo del
Toro (Mimic) serve up a nonstop smorgasbord of intensely choreographed action, creepy
makeup, and graphic ultraviolence. It''s !
sadistic, juvenile, numbing, and');
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('83', 'B00007ELDF', 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Criterion
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cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film
Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming
Hunter S. Thompson''s psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo"
journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences,"
and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a
visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of
Thompson''s ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the
joke');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00007ELDF.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'The original
cowriter and director of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was Alex Cox, whose earlier film
Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming Hunter S.
Thompson''s psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo" journalism.
Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences," and this
ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a visionary
filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of Thompson''s
ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the joke');
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Sid and Nancy suggests that Cox could have been a perfect match in filming
Hunter S. Thompson''s psychotropic masterpiece of "gonzo"
journalism. Unfortunately Cox departed due to the usual "creative differences,"
and this ill-fated adaptation was thrust upon Terry Gilliam, whose formidable gifts as a
visionary filmmaker were squandered on the seemingly unfilmable elements of
Thompson''s ether-fogged narrative. The result is a one-joke movie without the
joke');
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romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Ione Skye as unlikely lovers on the cusp of
adulthood. The casting is perfect, and Crowe''s rookie direction is appropriately
unobtrusive, no doubt influenced by his actor-loving, Oscar®-winning mentor, James
L. Brooks. But the real strength of Crowe''s work is his exceptional writing, his
timely grasp of contemporary rhythms and language (he''s frequently called
"the voice of a generation"), and the rich humor and depth of his fully
developed characters. In Say Anything... Cusack and Skye play recent high school graduates
enjoying one final summer before le!
aping into a lifetime of adult responsibilities. Lloyd (Cusack) is an aspiring kickboxer
with no definite plans; Diane (Skye) is a valedictorian with intentions to further her
education in Europe. Together they find unlikely bliss, but there''s also
turbulence when Diane''s father (John Mahoney)');
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Brooks. But the real strength of Crowe''s work is his exceptional writing, his
timely grasp of contemporary rhythms and language (he''s frequently called
"the voice of a generation"), and the rich humor and depth of his fully
developed characters. In Say Anything... Cusack and Skye play recent high school graduates
enjoying one final summer before leaping!
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no definite plans; Diane (Skye) is a valedictorian with intentions to further her
education in Europe. Together they find unlikely bliss, but there''s also
turbulence when Diane''s father (John Mahoney)');
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movies don’t get much darker, or more darkly humorous, than The Ice Harvest, an
offbeat comedy that defies expectations. The involvement of director Harold Ramis might
lead some to expect a straight-up comedy like Groundhog Day or Analyze This, but despite
Ramis’s fine and atypically subdued work here, it’s the writers (Robert
Benton and Richard Russo) who put a stronger stamp on their adaptation of the novel by
Scott Phillips. Benton and Russo previously collaborated on Nobody’s Fool and
Twilight (with Benton also directing), and those films are similar in tone and spirit to
this quirky, modern-day film noir, set on a freezing Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas,
where mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) has a lot on his mind. He’s just
stolen $2 !
million from his boss (Randy Quaid), he can’t trust his partner Vic (Billy Bob
Thornton), he’s secretly in love with the manager (Connie Nielsen) of the strip
bar he owns, and his best friend (Oliver Platt, giving yet another terrific performance)
is married to his ex-wife. Before the night’s over, several murders will
complicate matters even further, and throughout it all, The Ice Harvest is anchored by
Cusack’s good-natured presence in a bad-natured story that dares to combine
double-crosses and bloodshed with elusive yuletide cheer. It’s a strange but
oddly appealing combination, not for all tastes but refreshing for that very same reason.
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offbeat comedy that defies expectations. The involvement of director Harold Ramis might
lead some to expect a straight-up comedy like Groundhog Day or Analyze This, but despite
Ramis''s fine and atypically subdued work here, it''s the writers (Robert
Benton and Richard Russo) who put a stronger stamp on their adaptation of the novel by
Scott Phillips. Benton and Russo previously collaborated on Nobody''s Fool and
Twilight (with Benton also directing), and those films are similar in tone and spirit to
this quirky, modern-day film noir, set on a freezing Christmas Eve in Wichita, Kansas,
where mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) has a lot on his mind. He''s just
stolen $2 million from his bos!
s (Randy Quaid), he can''t trust his partner Vic (Billy Bob Thornton),
he''s secretly in love with the manager (Connie Nielsen) of the strip bar he owns,
and his best friend (Oliver Platt, giving yet another terrific performance) is married to
his ex-wife. Before the night''s over, several murders will complicate matters
even further, and throughout it all, The Ice Harvest is anchored by Cusack''s
good-natured presence in a bad-natured story that dares to combine double-crosses and
bloodshed with elusive yuletide cheer. It''s a strange but oddly appealing
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movie deals with the lives inside an English country home just prior to World
War II. Reunited with the filmmakers from Howards End are Emma Thompson as Miss
Kenton, the head housekeeper, and Anthony Hopkins as Stevens, the impeccable butler. The
bittersweet story centers on Stevens and his dedication to his master, Lord Darlington (a
suitably officious and slyly pompous James Fox). Stevens summarizes: "I
don''t believe a man can consider himself fully content until he has done all he
can to be of service to his employer." Enveloping Stevens''s world are the
pending war with Germany, Darlington''s horribly misguided interests in said war,
and, most effectively, his relationsh!
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he is neither piteous nor self-righteous. Like his master, Stevens becomes misguided in
his loyalties, although his is an emotional deprivation, possibly condemning him to
lifelong regret. There''s so much going on in this film, and yet the action is
skillfully depicted through understanding and knowing glances, through emotions expressed
only through eye contact. Like other Merchant-Ivory-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala collaborations,
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Jhabvala respectfully adapts from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. Excellent in supporting roles
are Christopher Reeve, Ben Chaplin, and Hugh Grant. ');
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movie deals with the lives inside an English country home just prior to World War II.
Reunited with the filmmakers from Howards End are Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, the head
housekeeper, and Anthony Hopkins as Stevens, the impeccable butler. The bittersweet story
centers on Stevens and his dedication to his master, Lord Darlington (a suitably officious
and slyly pompous James Fox). Stevens summarizes: "I don''t believe a man can
consider himself fully content until he has done all he can to be of service to his
employer." Enveloping Stevens''s world are the pending war with Germany,
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relationship wi!
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neither piteous nor self-righteous. Like his master, Stevens becomes misguided in his
loyalties, although his is an emotional deprivation, possibly condemning him to lifelong
regret. There''s so much going on in this film, and yet the action is skillfully
depicted through understanding and knowing glances, through emotions expressed only
through eye contact. Like other Merchant-Ivory-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala collaborations, this
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respectfully adapts from the Kazuo Ishiguro novel. Excellent in supporting roles are
Christopher Reeve, Ben Chaplin, and Hugh Grant. ');
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vision that made Almost Famous work. It''s mostly a series of sweet moments, each
capped with the right song at the right time; in fact, the soundtrack is the real star of
the movie, and the right song is all there is to piece together a film that is much less
than the sum of its parts. From the start of Elizabethtown, big contrasts are evoked:
death and life, success and failure are side by side, so we''re told. When the
movie starts, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is experiencing failure and death in spades: the
shoe he spent eight years designing for Mercury (a thinly-veiled copy of Nike) has been
recalled, costing his company $972 million dollars. On the verge of a suicide attempt,!
he learns his father has died, and Drew flies to Kentucky to retrieve the body to Oregon
for cremation. On the red-eye to Louisville he meets Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), a
perky flight att''ndant with a charming flair for cute lines ("I''m
impossible to forget, but I’m hard to remember," she chirps). Once in
Elizabethtown, Drew tries to plan a memorial while dealing with relatives who have their
own agenda in addition to his manic family back in Oregon, all while facing the reality
that in a few days he''ll be known nationally as one of his industry''s
most legendary failures. Yet still he manages to connect with Claire on an all-night cell
phone conversation');
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vision that made Almost Famous work. It''s mostly a series of sweet moments, each
capped with the right song at the right time; in fact, the soundtrack is the real star of
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than the sum of its parts. From the start of Elizabethtown, big contrasts are evoked:
death and life, success and failure are side by side, so we''re told. When the
movie starts, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is experiencing failure and death in spades: the
shoe he spent eight years designing for Mercury (a thinly-veiled copy of Nike) has been
recalled, costing his company $972 million dollars. On the verge of a suicide attempt,!
he learns his father has died, and Drew flies to Kentucky to retrieve the body to Oregon
for cremation. On the red-eye to Louisville he meets Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), a
perky flight att''ndant with a charming flair for cute lines ("I''m
impossible to forget, but I''m hard to remember," she chirps). Once in
Elizabethtown, Drew tries to plan a memorial while dealing with relatives who have their
own agenda in addition to his manic family back in Oregon, all while facing the reality
that in a few days he''ll be known nationally as one of his industry''s
most legendary failures. Yet still he manages to connect with Claire on an all-night cell
phone conversation');
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exactly was Deep Throat, that all-important source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein bust open the Watergate scandal? Well, according to this thoroughly funny,
keenly smart comedy from director Andrew Fleming (The Craft), it was two sweetly daft
teenage girls named Betsy and Arlene. Taking the history and figures from Watergate and
running gleefully and sacrilegiously amok, Dick offers up a hilarious what-if scenario
that takes the Nixon administration''s downfall from grave tragedy to hilarious
farce. When Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams) run into a shady figure
in the stairwell of Arlene''s Watergate apartment building, little do they know
they''ve stumbled upon G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer) on the night of
the Democratic National Headquarters break!
-in. Later, on a White House field trip, they wind up meeting with Nixon himself (Dan
Hedaya), who, to ensure their silence, decides to make them official White House dog
walkers and "secret youth advisors." Of course, Betsy and Arlene soon find out
their idol has feet of clay, and ultimately decide to aid "radical muckraking
journalists" (and queasy rivals) Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Bernstein (Bruce
McCullough) in their investigation. Fleming and cowriter Sheryl Longin''s
enfolding of the Watergate scandal is extremely clever and inspired, from
Arlene''s 18-and-a-half-minute declaration of love on Nixon''s tape
recorder to the Hello Dolly cookies (laced with a certain herbal stimulant) that help
bring about the U.S.-Soviet accord. And after all the angsty-serious portraits of
Watergate, it''s bliss to see the prime players sent up mercilessly; in addition
to Shearer, the cast boasts Dave Foley (Erlichman), Jim Breuer (John Dean), Saul Rubinek
(Kissinger), and Ana Gasteye!
r (Rosemary Woods), all in fine form. Hedaya''s Nixon, dead-on but nev
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with affection and humor; the success of the film lies in the way these talented actresses
make us laugh with Betsy and Arlene, never at them. Don''t be put off by the teen
sheen on this comedy');
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exactly was Deep Throat, that all-important source who helped Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein bust open the Watergate scandal? Well, according to this thoroughly funny,
keenly smart comedy from director Andrew Fleming (The Craft), it was two sweetly daft
teenage girls named Betsy and Arlene. Taking the history and figures from Watergate and
running gleefully and sacrilegiously amok, Dick offers up a hilarious what-if scenario
that takes the Nixon administration''s downfall from grave tragedy to hilarious
farce. When Betsy (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene (Michelle Williams) run into a shady figure
in the stairwell of Arlene''s Watergate apartment building, little do they know
they''ve stumbled upon G. Gordon Liddy (Harry Shearer) on the night of the
Democratic National Headquarters break-in. !
Later, on a White House field trip, they wind up meeting with Nixon himself (Dan Hedaya),
who, to ensure their silence, decides to make them official White House dog walkers and
"secret youth advisors." Of course, Betsy and Arlene soon find out their idol
has feet of clay, and ultimately decide to aid "radical muckraking journalists"
(and queasy rivals) Woodward (Will Ferrell) and Bernstein (Bruce McCullough) in their
investigation. Fleming and cowriter Sheryl Longin''s enfolding of the Watergate
scandal is extremely clever and inspired, from Arlene''s 18-and-a-half-minute
declaration of love on Nixon''s tape recorder to the Hello Dolly cookies (laced
with a certain herbal stimulant) that help bring about the U.S.-Soviet accord. And after
all the angsty-serious portraits of Watergate, it''s bliss to see the prime
players sent up mercilessly; in addition to Shearer, the cast boasts Dave Foley
(Erlichman), Jim Breuer (John Dean), Saul Rubinek (Kissinger), and Ana Gasteyer (Ro!
semary Woods), all in fine form. Hedaya''s Nixon, dead-on but never pa
rodic, is an Oscar-worthy comic turn, and Dunst and Williams invest their characters with
affection and humor; the success of the film lies in the way these talented actresses make
us laugh with Betsy and Arlene, never at them. Don''t be put off by the teen sheen
on this comedy');
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Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood could''ve opted for further big budget
epics, but took a sharp left turn with this better-than-average B-movie. Released just
after Everything is Illuminated, another offbeat entry, Wood plays journalism student Matt
Buckner. In the prologue, he''s expelled from Harvard when his over-privileged
roommate sets him up to take the fall for his own misdeeds. With nowhere to go, Matt
decides to visit his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), in London. He''s already
got a chip on his shoulder when he falls under the sway of Shannon''s
brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), head of West Ham''s football
"firm," the Green Street Elite. Matt soon gets caught up in their thuggish
antics—to tragic effect. In her feature debut, German-born!
Lexi Alexander makes a mostly convincing case for the attractions of violence to the
emotionally vulnerable, as opposed to the emotionally numb pugilists of the more satirical
Fight Club. Unlike David Fincher (by way of Chuck Palahniuk), she plays it straight,
except for the stylized fight sequences. Consequently, humor is in short supply, but the
young Brit cast, especially Leo Gregory as the surly Bovver, is charismatic and Wood makes
his character as believable as possible, i.e. he may seem miscast, but that''s the
point. Although there''s no (direct) correlation between the two, Green Street
makes a fine taster for Bill Buford''s Among the Thugs, the ultimate dissection of
the hooligan mentality. ');
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Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood could''ve opted for further big budget
epics, but took a sharp left turn with this better-than-average B-movie. Released just
after Everything is Illuminated, another offbeat entry, Wood plays journalism student Matt
Buckner. In the prologue, he''s expelled from Harvard when his over-privileged
roommate sets him up to take the fall for his own misdeeds. With nowhere to go, Matt
decides to visit his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani), in London. He''s already
got a chip on his shoulder when he falls under the sway of Shannon''s
brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), head of West Ham''s football
"firm," the Green Street Elite. Matt soon gets caught up in their thuggish
antics to tragic effect. In her feature debut, German-born Lexi!
Alexander makes a mostly convincing case for the attractions of violence to the
emotionally vulnerable, as opposed to the emotionally numb pugilists of the more satirical
Fight Club. Unlike David Fincher (by way of Chuck Palahniuk), she plays it straight,
except for the stylized fight sequences. Consequently, humor is in short supply, but the
young Brit cast, especially Leo Gregory as the surly Bovver, is charismatic and Wood makes
his character as believable as possible, i.e. he may seem miscast, but that''s the
point. Although there''s no (direct) correlation between the two, Green Street
makes a fine taster for Bill Buford''s Among the Thugs, the ultimate dissection of
the hooligan mentality. ');
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Parker, a stage and film actor (Hellraiser), made his directorial debut with this
scaled-back version of Shakespeare''s play about the paranoid Moor, Othello
(Laurence Fishburne), and his manipulative friend, Iago (Kenneth Branagh). Parker gets the
story so lean he starts running a little short on the author''s subtext, and if
it''s possible to overemphasize the banality of Iago''s scheming and
Othello''s malleability, he does so. The director throws out what is universal in
the story and makes it all seem merely ordinary, human, and unfortunate, which is the
opposite of what watching Shakespeare should be. In the end, it''s hard to care
what these characters have done to one another. Branagh''s Iago is a little flat
and unfocused, while Fishburne is excellent as a quieter Othello th!
an we''re accustomed to. With Irène Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. ');
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scaled-back version of Shakespeare''s play about the paranoid Moor, Othello
(Laurence Fishburne), and his manipulative friend, Iago (Kenneth Branagh). Parker gets the
story so lean he starts running a little short on the author''s subtext, and if
it''s possible to overemphasize the banality of Iago''s scheming and
Othello''s malleability, he does so. The director throws out what is universal in
the story and makes it all seem merely ordinary, human, and unfortunate, which is the
opposite of what watching Shakespeare should be. In the end, it''s hard to care
what these characters have done to one another. Branagh''s Iago is a little flat
and unfocused, while Fishburne is excellent as a quieter Othello th!
an we''re accustomed to. With Irene Jacob (Red) as Desdemona. ');
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beauty. She jets over to the City of Lights to fight for her man, but an incapacitating
fear of flying forces her to seek help from a fellow passenger, a French thief played by
Kevin Kline, who then tutors her in the ways of getting her beau back. Kasdan seems
incapable of pacing the story, let alone getting a firm grip on its comic tone and
intentions. The production sputters and regroups and stalls repeatedly, forcing Ryan,
particularly, to find the boundaries of her own screwball performance. ');
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strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled
adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid
over-the-top characters, the book''s joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone
of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up.
Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic
fable while keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework,
avuncular Grandpa (Peter Falk) gradually seduces his skeptical grandson (Fred Savage) into
the absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story. And what a story: a lowly stable
boy!
, Westley (Cary Elwes), pledges his love to the beautiful Buttercup (Robin Wright), only
to be abducted and reportedly killed by pirates while Buttercup is betrothed to the evil
Prince Humperdinck. Even as Buttercup herself is kidnapped by a giant, a scheming criminal
mastermind, and a master Spanish swordsman, a mysterious masked pirate (could it be
Westley?) follows in pursuit. As they sail toward the Cliffs of Insanity... The wild
and woolly arcs of the story, the sudden twists of fate, and, above all, the
cartoon-scaled characters all work because of Goldman''s very funny script,
Reiner''s confident direction, and a terrific cast. Elwes and Wright, both
sporting their best English accents, juggle romantic fervor and physical slapstick
effortlessly, while supporting roles boast Mandy Patinkin (the swordsman Inigo Montoya),
Wallace Shawn (the incredulous schemer Vizzini), and Christopher Guest (evil Count Rugen)
with brief but funny cameos from Billy Crystal, Carol Kan!
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adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid
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of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the cliches being sent up. Miraculously,
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keeping that external voice largely intact: using a storytelling framework, avuncular
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absurd, irresistible melodrama of the title story. And what a story: a lowly stable
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from Episode II, Attack of the Clones as well as the animated Clone Wars series, Jedi
Master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden
Christensen), pursue General Grievous into space after the droid kidnapped Supreme
Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). <table align=left cellpadding="6"
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Tree (click for larger image) </span> </td></tr> </table>
It''s just!
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forces led by former Jedi turned Sith Lord Count Dooku (Christopher Lee). On another
front, Master Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) leads the Republic''s clone troops against
a droid attack on the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk. All this is in the first half of
Episode III, which feels a lot like Episodes I and II. That means spectacular scenery,
dazzling dogfights in space, a new fearsome villain (the CGI-created Grievous
can''t match up to either Darth Maul or the original Darth Vader, though),
lightsaber duels, groan-worthy romantic dialogue, goofy humor (but at least it''s
left to the droids instead of Jar-Jar Binks), and hordes of faceless clone troopers
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larger
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originals in tidy little ways. But best of all, it seem!
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Christensen), pursue General Grievous into space after the droid kidnapped Supreme
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Frank Oz) leads the Republic''s clone troops against a droid attack on the Wookiee
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populated with a mélange of creatures, flora, and horizons rendered in absolute
detail. The action and battle scenes are breathtaking in their complexity. And one
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can''t help but secretly ask themselves: Sure, this is Star Wars, but is it my
Star Wars? The original elevated moviegoers'' expectations so high that it would
have been impossible for any subsequent film to meet them. And as with all the Star Wars
movies, The Phantom Menace features inexplicable plot twists, a fistful of loose threads,
and some cheek-chewing dialogue. Han Solo''s swagger is sorely missed, as is the
pervadin!
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McGregor), tormented by personal loss, and showing his emerging "dark side"
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that cop and criminal!
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are a disaster. Pacino''s with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the
reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no
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industry as Traffic was to the drug trade (no surprise, since writer/director Stephen
Gaghan wrote the screenplay to Traffic): a sprawling attempt to portray the vast
political, business, social, and personal implications of a societal addiction, in this
case, oil. A major merger between two of the world’s largest oil companies
reveals ethical dilemmas for the lawyer charged with making the deal (Jeffrey Wright), and
major global implications beyond the obvious; a CIA operative (George Clooney) discovers
the truth about his work, and the people he works for; a young oil broker (Matt Damon)
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far beyond his control. Meanwhile, disenfranchised Pakistani youths are lured into
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whether they realize it or not, though the connections are sometimes tenuous. While
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measure up to Gaghan’s ambitious vision and it very nearly collapses under the
weight of its many storylines. Fortunately they are resolved skillfully enough to keep the
film from going under in the end. To some viewers, Syriana will seem like an unfocused
and over-loaded film that goes, all at once, everywhere and nowhere. Others will find it
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case, oil. A major merger between two of the world''s largest oil companies
reveals ethical dilemmas for the lawyer charged with making the deal (Jeffrey Wright), and
major global implications beyond the obvious; a CIA operative (George Clooney) discovers
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realize it or not, though the connections are sometimes tenuous. While Syriana is
basically a good film with timely resonance, it can''t quite seem to measure up to
Gaghan''s ambitious vision and it very nearly collapses under the weight of its
many storylines. Fortunately they are resolved skillfully enough to keep the film from
going under in the end. To some viewers, Syriana will seem like an unfocused and
over-loaded film that goes, all at once, everywhere and nowhere. Others will find it to be
an important work earnestly exploring major issues. In either case, it''s a film
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Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) saves a script marred by vanity and clunky character development
by yanking soulful, touching performances out of his entire cast (amazingly, even one by
Williams that''s relatively schtick-free). Van Sant pulls off the equivalent of
what George Cukor accomplished for women''s melodrama in the ''30s and
''40s: He''s crafted an intelligent, unabashedly emotional male weepie
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genius who ignores his gift!
in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben
Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible
calculus problem scribbled on a hallway blackboard and reluctantly becomes the prodigy of
an arrogant MIT professor (Stellan Skarsgård). Damon only avoids prison by
agreeing to see psychiatrists, all of whom he mocks or psychologically destroys until he
meets his match in the professor''s former childhood friend, played by Williams.
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healing process begins. The film''s beauty lies not with grand climaxes, but with
small, quiet moments. Scenes such as Affleck''s clumsy pep talk to Damon while
they drink beer after work, or any number of therapy session between Williams and Damon
offer poignant looks at the awkward ways men show affection and feeling for one another.
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by yanking soulful, touching performances out of his entire cast (amazingly, even one by
Williams that''s relatively schtick-free). Van Sant pulls off the equivalent of
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''40s: He''s crafted an intelligent, unabashedly emotional male weepie
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genius who ignores his gift!
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Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible
calculus problem scribbled on a hallway blackboard and reluctantly becomes the prodigy of
an arrogant MIT professor. Damon only avoids prison by agreeing to see psychiatrists, all
of whom he mocks or psychologically destroys until he meets his match in the
professor''s former childhood friend, played by Williams. Both doctor and patient
are haunted by the past, and as mutual respect develops, the healing process begins. The
film''s beauty lies not with grand climaxes, but with small, quiet moments. Scenes
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director Richard Linklater turned his free-range vérité sensibility
on the 1970s. As before, his all-seeing camera meanders across a landscape studded with
goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around,
he''s spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the
soundtrack). It''s as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc
Godard. The story deals with a group of friends on the last day of high school, 1976.
Good-natured football star Randall "Pink" Floyd navigates effortlessly between
the warring!
worlds of jocks, stoners, wannabes, and rockers with girlfriend and new-freshman buddy
in tow. Surprisingly, it''s not a coming-of-age movie, but a film that dares ask
the eternal, overwhelming, adolescent question, "What happens next?"
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ever say these were the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself."). But
it''s also way too much fun (remember souped-up Corvettes and bicentennial
madness?) to be just another existential-essay-on-celluloid. ');
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references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around, he''s
spreading a thick layer of nostalgia over the lens (and across the soundtrack).
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goofy pop culture references and poignant glimpses of human nature. Only this time around,
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soundtrack). It''s as if Fast Times at Ridgemont High was directed by Jean-Luc
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plan!" Her slapstick moments are lighthearted and she is spot-on as the controlling,
compulsive-yet-sweet planner. The bad news is Lopez didn''t get much of a vehicle
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father (Alex Rocco, whose wandering Italian accent is painful to listen to) belong. When a
handsome young doctor (Matthew McConaughey) saves her from a collision with a runaway
dumpster (really, it works),!
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of Mary''s biggest client, Fran (played winningly by Bridgette Wilson-Sampras),
the job that will launch Mary as a partner in her firm. The main problem with this film
is that no one wants to hurt anyone else''s feelings. Everyone is just so
gosh-darn nice. In a subplot, Mary''s father is trying to arrange her marriage to
just the nicest Italian boy. Gee, he''s sweet. Golly, Fran is nice. Is there ever
a way out of this mess and to leave everyone smiling? Yet, there is a touch of
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"cute." And while things may unfold in a predictable manner, The Wedding Planner
is still lighthearted fun of the sort that inspires dreamy romantic thoughts. ');
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dumpster (really, it works),!
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nice. In a subplot, Mary''s father is trying to arrange her marriage to just the
nicest Italian boy. Gee, he''s sweet. Golly, Fran is nice. Is there ever a way out
of this mess and to leave everyone smiling? Yet, there is a touch of old-fashioned romance
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that (and you should), understand that Expectations has those ingredients (great sense of
time, place, and timing) but adds modern music and sex appeal; the latter personified by
the long-legged Gwyneth Paltrow. Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James
Kissner at age 10) is the new version of Dickens''s Pip. He''s a child
wise beyond his years, befriending an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) in the warm waters
of Florida''s Gulf Coast. Finn is also the plaything for Estella (Paltrow as an
adult, Raquel Beaudene at age 10), the niece of the coast''s richest and most
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one-dimensional character, yet what a dimension! Clad in Donna Karan dresses and her long,
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Glazer''s script does better by Finn. He''s a blue-collar worker with a
gift for drawing (artwork by Francesco Clemente). Following his Uncle Joe''s
(Chris Cooper) honest ways, Finn grows up as a fisherman, thoughts of Estella and art
drifting away in the hard work. When a mysterious benefactor allows him to follow his
dream, Finn finds himself in New York, preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime art
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long-legged Gwyneth Paltrow. Finnegan Bell (Ethan Hawke as an adult, Jeremy James
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hearts. As the object of Finn''s desires, Estella unfortunately is a
one-dimensional character, yet what a dimension! Clad in Donna Karan dresses and her long,
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gift for drawing (artwork by Francesco Clemente). Following his Uncle Joe''s
(Chris Cooper) honest ways, Finn grows up as a fisherman, thoughts of Estella and art
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lazy-day diversion. Based on Cornell Woolrich''s novel Waltz into Darkness
(previous filmed by François Truffaut as Mississippi Mermaid) and set in
turn-of-the-century Cuba, the film traces a tailspin of amorous obsession when coffee
plantation owner Luis (Antonio Banderas) discovers that his American mail-order bride
(Angelina Jolie) is not the plain wife he''d expected, but a beautiful, scheming
thief who''s after his fortune. The movie asserts that love is truly blind, but
absurd twists of plot make Luis appear more stupid than passionate. Writer-director
Michael Cristofer fared better with Jolie in Gia; he!
re, he''s made another good-looking film about beautiful people, but its plot
just can''t be taken seriously. ');
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offering enough nudity, sexual chemistry, and far-fetched plotting to make it an enjoyable
lazy-day diversion. Based on Cornell Woolrich''s novel Waltz into Darkness
(previous filmed by Francois Truffaut as Mississippi Mermaid) and set in
turn-of-the-century Cuba, the film traces a tailspin of amorous obsession when coffee
plantation owner Luis (Antonio Banderas) discovers that his American mail-order bride
(Angelina Jolie) is not the plain wife he''d expected, but a beautiful, scheming
thief who''s after his fortune. The movie asserts that love is truly blind, but
absurd twists of plot make Luis appear more stupid than passionate. Writer-director
Michael Cristofer fared better with Jolie in Gia; here, he'!
's made another good-looking film about beautiful people, but its plot just
can''t be taken seriously. ');
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Susanna Kaysen''s acclaimed journal-memoir, Girl, Interrupted bears inevitable
resemblance to One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest, and pale comparison to that
earlier classic is impossible to avoid. The mental institution settings of both films
guarantee a certain degree of déjà vu and at least one Oscar winner
(in this case, Angelina Jolie), since playing a loony is any actor''s dream gig.
Unfortunately, director James Mangold seems to have misplaced the depth and delicacy of
his underrated debut, Heavy, despite a great deal of earnest effort by everyone involved.
It''s easy to see why Winona Ryder chose to star in (and executive-produce) this
nearly worthy adaptation of Kaysen''s book, since it''s a strong vehicle
for female casting and potent drama. Mangold!
certainly got the former; whether he succeeded with the latter is not so clear. To be
sure, Ryder conveys the confusion and chaos that signified Kaysen''s life during
nearly 18 months of voluntary institutionalization beginning in 1967. But the
film seems too eager to embrace the cliché that the "crazies" of the
Claymoore women''s ward are saner than the war-torn world outside, and lack of
narrative focus gives way to semipredictable character study. Susanna (Ryder) is labeled
with "borderline personality disorder," a diagnosis as ambiguous as her own
emotions, and while Jolie chews the scenery as the resident bad-girl sociopath, Ryder
effectively conveys an odyssey from vulnerable fear to self-awareness and, finally, to
healing. The ensemble cast is uniformly superb, making this drama well worthwhile, even as
it treads familiar territory. If it ultimately lacks dramatic impact, Girl, Interrupted
makes it painfully clear that the boundaries of dysfunction ar!
e hazy in a world where everyone''s crazy once in a while. ');
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Susanna Kaysen''s acclaimed journal-memoir, Girl, Interrupted bears inevitable
resemblance to One Flew Over the Cuckoo''s Nest, and pale comparison to that
earlier classic is impossible to avoid. The mental institution settings of both films
guarantee a certain degree of deja vu and at least one Oscar winner (in this case,
Angelina Jolie), since playing a loony is any actor''s dream gig. Unfortunately,
director James Mangold seems to have misplaced the depth and delicacy of his underrated
debut, Heavy, despite a great deal of earnest effort by everyone involved. It''s
easy to see why Winona Ryder chose to star in (and executive-produce) this nearly worthy
adaptation of Kaysen''s book, since it''s a strong vehicle for female
casting and potent drama. Mangold certainly got!
the former; whether he succeeded with the latter is not so clear. To be sure, Ryder
conveys the confusion and chaos that signified Kaysen''s life during nearly 18
months of voluntary institutionalization beginning in 1967. But the film seems too eager
to embrace the cliche that the "crazies" of the Claymoore women''s ward
are saner than the war-torn world outside, and lack of narrative focus gives way to
semipredictable character study. Susanna (Ryder) is labeled with "borderline
personality disorder," a diagnosis as ambiguous as her own emotions, and while Jolie
chews the scenery as the resident bad-girl sociopath, Ryder effectively conveys an odyssey
from vulnerable fear to self-awareness and, finally, to healing. The ensemble cast is
uniformly superb, making this drama well worthwhile, even as it treads familiar territory.
If it ultimately lacks dramatic impact, Girl, Interrupted makes it painfully clear that
the boundaries of dysfunction are hazy in a world where ev!
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depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a
thriller, it''s cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack
into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John
Badham''s 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher
Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous clichés. ("By
the time they realize the truth, we''ll be long gone with all the money.")
For all its postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling
tools. But it does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and
alienation. The director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and
he seems to have an instinct for the emotions tha!
t pull kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart.
The familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It
doesn''t hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy Williamson in
Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic;
their longing glances steam up the screen. ');
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depiction of the computer-hacker underground, this movie is bogus to the bone. As a
thriller, it''s cartoonish and conventional. The premise (computer-happy kids hack
into the wrong system, and the Forces of Repression come after them) is recycled from John
Badham''s 1983 WarGames. And the corporate-creep bad guy, played by Fisher
Stevens, steeples his fingers and growls mossy villainous cliches. ("By the time they
realize the truth, we''ll be long gone with all the money.") For all its
postmodern trappings the movie is working with sub-prehistoric storytelling tools. But it
does succeed on one level, as a movie about adolescent bonding and alienation. The
director, Iain Softley, helmed the Beatles-in-Hamburg biopic Backbeat, and he seems to
have an instinct for the emotions that pull !
kids together around common interests and the insecurities that drive them apart. The
familiar crises of loyalty and betrayal have an ache of real loneliness. It
doesn''t hurt that the two stars, Jonny Lee Miller (Sick Boy Williamson in
Trainspotting) and Angelina Jolie (Gia), are just about equally gorgeous and charismatic;
their longing glances steam up the screen. ');
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highest compliment you can pay to Edward Norton is that his Oscar-nominated performance in
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tenets of white supremacy. If that statement doesn''t horrify you, it should;
Norton is so fully immersed in his role as a neo-Nazi skinhead that his
character''s eloquent defense of racism is disturbingly persuasive');
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highest compliment you can pay to Edward Norton is that his Oscar-nominated performance in
American History X nearly convinces you that there is a shred of logic in the tenets of
white supremacy. If that statement doesn''t horrify you, it should; Norton is so
fully immersed in his role as a neo-Nazi skinhead that his character''s eloquent
defense of racism is disturbingly persuasive');
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flop of Little Nicky, Adam Sandler returned to safe territory in Mr. Deeds... and made
Nicky look inspired by comparison. A loose remake of Frank Capra''s 1936 classic
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, this dumbed-down version finds Sandler in the Gary Cooper role,
inheriting a vast fortune and a corporate empire, foiling a greedy executive (Peter
Gallagher), and winning the heart of an undercover reporter (Winona Ryder) who''s
been mocking his small-town naiveté in print while falling for his goodhearted
sincerity. It''s fun enough to satisfy Sandler''s loyal fans');
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Nicky look inspired by comparison. A loose remake of Frank Capra''s 1936 classic
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, this dumbed-down version finds Sandler in the Gary Cooper role,
inheriting a vast fortune and a corporate empire, foiling a greedy executive (Peter
Gallagher), and winning the heart of an undercover reporter (Winona Ryder) who''s
been mocking his small-town naivete; in print while falling for his goodhearted sincerity.
It''s fun enough to satisfy Sandler''s loyal fans');
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familiar with writer/director James L. Brooks (Broadcast News, As Good As It Gets) knows
the man has a real feel for interesting women and a disarming way with a one-liner. The
main women in Spanglish are Deborah Clasky (Téa Leoni), a moneyed SoCal mom, and
non-English speaking Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), the beautiful Latina whom Deborah hires as a
housekeeper. The one-liners, some of them amusing, are everywhere. Brooks provides an
intriguing set-up for the two women to butt heads');
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the man has a real feel for interesting women and a disarming way with a one-liner. The
main women in Spanglish are Deborah Clasky, a moneyed SoCal mom, and non-English speaking
Flor Moreno (Paz Vega), the beautiful Latina whom Deborah hires as a housekeeper. The
one-liners, some of them amusing, are everywhere. Brooks provides an intriguing set-up for
the two women to butt heads');
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just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of slightly unsettling characters. For
a while it looks like The Ninth Gate, adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo
Pérez-Reverte, might recapture the beautiful uneasiness of such masterpieces as
Repulsion and Rosemary''s Baby. A calm, almost sleepy Johnny Depp plays cynical,
unscrupulous rare-book hunter Dean Corso, who''s hired by demonologist Boris
Balkan (Frank Langella) to authenticate a rare volume that, legend has it, was cowritten
by Lucifer himself. Dean leaves a Gothic looking New York (re-created in Europe by
Polanski as a sinister city of shadows) for Portugal and Paris to compare
Balkan''s volume with the!
two copies known to be in existence and uncovers a mystery with unholy ramifications. He
also finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that involves Balkan, a widow who will
stop at nothing to retrieve Balkan''s book (Lena Olin, who gleefully bites and
claws her way through the part), and a mysterious guardian "angel"
(Polanski''s wife, Emmanuelle Seigner) who shadows his every step. The Ninth Gate
is full of rumbling menace and deliciously unsettling imagery, but Polanski''s
languorous direction and purposefully vague story render a film that''s eerie
without every becoming thrilling. It''s perpetually on the verge of becoming
interesting');
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just outside the frame and hidden behind the faces of slightly unsettling characters. For
a while it looks like The Ninth Gate, adapted from the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo
Perez-Reverte, might recapture the beautiful uneasiness of such masterpieces as Repulsion
and Rosemary''s Baby. A calm, almost sleepy Johnny Depp plays cynical,
unscrupulous rare-book hunter Dean Corso, who''s hired by demonologist Boris
Balkan (Frank Langella) to authenticate a rare volume that, legend has it, was cowritten
by Lucifer himself. Dean leaves a Gothic looking New York (re-created in Europe by
Polanski as a sinister city of shadows) for Portugal and Paris to compare
Balkan''s volume with the two co!
pies known to be in existence and uncovers a mystery with unholy ramifications. He also
finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that involves Balkan, a widow who will stop at
nothing to retrieve Balkan''s book (Lena Olin, who gleefully bites and claws her
way through the part), and a mysterious guardian "angel" (Polanski''s
wife, Emmanuelle Seigner) who shadows his every step. The Ninth Gate is full of rumbling
menace and deliciously unsettling imagery, but Polanski''s languorous direction
and purposefully vague story render a film that''s eerie without every becoming
thrilling. It''s perpetually on the verge of becoming interesting');
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fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against
poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the ''60s, multiplies his fortune with the
Colombian Medellín cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police
busts culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad''s a
loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and
he''s right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life,
almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he
deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly
authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overal!
l purpose. We can''t sympathize with Jung''s meteoric rise to wealth
and the wild life, and Demme isn''t suggesting that we should idolize a drug
dealer. So what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present
Jung''s story as the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever
so subtly, that Jung isn''t such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his
lifestyle will find this film amazing, and there''s plenty of humor mixed with the
constant threat of violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a
fantastic supporting cast (although Penélope Cruz grows tiresome as
Jung''s hedonistic wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other
side of Traffic. Still, one wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a
wild party, it leaves you with a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. ');
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paced hybrid of Boogie Nights and Goodfellas, Blow chronicles the three-decade rise and
fall of George Jung (Johnny Depp), a normal American kid who makes a personal vow against
poverty, builds a marijuana empire in the ''60s, multiplies his fortune with the
Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel, and blows it all with a series of police busts
culminating in one final, long-term jail sentence. "Your dad''s a
loser," says this absentee father to his estranged but beloved daughter, and
he''s right: Blow is the story of a nice guy who made wrong choices all his life,
almost single-handedly created the American cocaine trade, and got exactly what he
deserved. As directed by Ted Demme, the film is vibrantly entertaining, painstakingly
authentic... and utterly aimless in terms of overall purpo!
se. We can''t sympathize with Jung''s meteoric rise to wealth and the
wild life, and Demme isn''t suggesting that we should idolize a drug dealer. So
what, exactly, is the point of Blow? Simply, it seems, to present Jung''s story as
the epitome of the coke-driven glory days, and to suggest, ever so subtly, that Jung
isn''t such a bad guy, after all. Anyone curious about his lifestyle will find
this film amazing, and there''s plenty of humor mixed with the constant threat of
violence and paranoid anxiety. Demme has also populated the film with a fantastic
supporting cast (although Penelope Cruz grows tiresome as Jung''s hedonistic
wife), and this is certainly a compelling look at the other side of Traffic. Still, one
wishes that Blow had a more viable reason for being; like a wild party, it leaves you with
a hangover and a vague feeling of regret. ');
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so good in it. Based on the novel by Peter Hedges (who adapted his own book) and directed
by Lasse Hallström (My Life as a Dog), this is the funny, moody tale of a young
man named Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) who lives at home in a small town with his 500-pound
Momma (beautifully played by nonpro Darlene Cates), his mentally retarded younger brother
Arnie (DiCaprio, utterly convincing), and his sisters. Not a lot happens');
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the movie that Leonardo DiCaprio received an Oscar nomination for, five years before
Titanic. And, in fact, this is the movie that should have made him a star, he''s
so good in it. Based on the novel by Peter Hedges (who adapted his own book) and directed
by Lasse Hallstro(My Life as a Dog), this is the funny, moody tale of a young man named
Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) who lives at home in a small town with his 500-pound Momma
(beautifully played by nonpro Darlene Cates), his mentally retarded younger brother Arnie
(DiCaprio, utterly convincing), and his sisters. Not a lot happens');
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like Chocolat, it''s always best to relax your intellectual faculties and absorb
the abundant sensual pleasures, be it the heart-stopping smile of chocolatier Juliette
Binoche as she greets a new customer, an intoxicating cup of spiced hot cocoa, or the
soothing guitar of an Irish gypsy played by Johnny Depp. Adapted by Robert Nelson Jacobs
from Joanne Harris''s popular novel and lovingly directed by Lasse
Hallström, the film covers familiar territory and deals in broad metaphors that
even a child could comprehend, so it''s no surprise that some critics panned it
with killjoy fervor. Their objections miss the point. Familiarity can be comforting and so
can easy metaphors when placed in a fable that''s as warmly inviting as this one.
Driven by fate, Vianne (Binoche) dr!
ifts into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol, from
Ponette) in the winter of 1959. Her newly opened chocolatier is a source of attraction and
fear, since Vianne''s ability to revive the villagers'' passions threatens
to disrupt their repressive traditions. The pious mayor (Alfred Molina) sees Vianne as the
enemy, and his war against her peaks with the arrival of "river rats" led by
Roux (Depp), whose attraction to Vianne is immediate and reciprocal. Splendid subplots
involve a battered wife (Lena Olin), a village elder (Judi Dench), and her estranged
daughter (Carrie-Anne Moss), and while the film''s broader strokes may be
regrettable (if not for Molina''s rich performance, the mayor would be a
caricature), its subtleties are often sublime. Chocolat reminds you of life''s
simple pleasures and invites you to enjoy them. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005K3OT.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'With movies
like Chocolat, it''s always best to relax your intellectual faculties and absorb
the abundant sensual pleasures, be it the heart-stopping smile of chocolatier Juliette
Binoche as she greets a new customer, an intoxicating cup of spiced hot cocoa, or the
soothing guitar of an Irish gypsy played by Johnny Depp. Adapted by Robert Nelson Jacobs
from Joanne Harris''s popular novel and lovingly directed by Lasse Hallstrom, the
film covers familiar territory and deals in broad metaphors that even a child could
comprehend, so it''s no surprise that some critics panned it with killjoy fervor.
Their objections miss the point. Familiarity can be comforting and so can easy metaphors
when placed in a fable that''s as warmly inviting as this one. Driven by fate,
Vianne (Binoche) drifts !
into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol, from Ponette)
in the winter of 1959. Her newly opened chocolatier is a source of attraction and fear,
since Vianne''s ability to revive the villagers'' passions threatens to
disrupt their repressive traditions. The pious mayor (Alfred Molina) sees Vianne as the
enemy, and his war against her peaks with the arrival of "river rats" led by
Roux (Depp), whose attraction to Vianne is immediate and reciprocal. Splendid subplots
involve a battered wife (Lena Olin), a village elder (Judi Dench), and her estranged
daughter (Carrie-Anne Moss), and while the film''s broader strokes may be
regrettable (if not for Molina''s rich performance, the mayor would be a
caricature), its subtleties are often sublime. Chocolat reminds you of life''s
simple pleasures and invites you to enjoy them. ');
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got a round table, some knights, and a noble warrior who rises to become King Arthur, but
everything else about this revisionist legend is pure Hollywood. That''s not such
a bad thing if you enjoyed Rob Roy, Braveheart, Gladiator, and Troy, and there''s
some intriguing potential in presenting the "real" Arthur (played by Clive Owen)
as a 5th-century soldier of Rome, assigned to defend Roman-imperial England against a
hoard of invading Saxons (led by Stellan Skarsgård in hairy villain mode). As
revamped history and "archaeological findings" would have us believe, Guinevere
(Keira Knightley) is a warrior babe in face-paint and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is a
nonentity who fades into the woodwork. Never mind! Best to enjoy the harsh, gloomy
atmosphere of Irish locations, the rug!
gedness of Owen and his hearty supporting cast, and the entertaining nonsense of a Jerry
Bruckheimer production that strips battle-ready Guinevere down to leather-strap S&M
gear while all the men sport full-body armor. Hail to the queen, indeed! ');
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got a round table, some knights, and a noble warrior who rises to become King Arthur, but
everything else about this revisionist legend is pure Hollywood. That''s not such
a bad thing if you enjoyed Rob Roy, Braveheart, Gladiator, and Troy, and there''s
some intriguing potential in presenting the "real" Arthur (played by Clive Owen)
as a 5th-century soldier of Rome, assigned to defend Roman-imperial England against a
hoard of invading Saxons (led by Stellan Skarsgard in hairy villain mode). As revamped
history and "archaeological findings" would have us believe, Guinevere (Keira
Knightley) is a warrior babe in face-paint and Lancelot (Ioan Gruffudd) is a nonentity who
fades into the woodwork. Never mind! Best to enjoy the harsh, gloomy atmosphere of Irish
locations, the ruggednes!
s of Owen and his hearty supporting cast, and the entertaining nonsense of a Jerry
Bruckheimer production that strips battle-ready Guinevere down to leather-strap S&M
gear while all the men sport full-body armor. Hail to the queen, indeed! ');
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delightful designs of William Joyce (writer/illustrator of such popular
children''s books as George Shrinks and Bently & Egg) make Robots a joy to
behold. The round, bouncy, and ramshackle forms of hero Rodney Copperbottom and his
computer-animated friends are part of an ornate and daffy <table align=left
cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" > <tr><td
align="center"> <img
src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/video/stills/robots/robots...
border=0 align=top> <br> <span class="tiny">Fender providing
assistance. </span> </td></tr> </table>Rube-Goldberg universe of
elaborate contraptions and gleaming metallic surfaces. Rodney (voiced with a
hint-of-Scottish lilt by Ewan McGregor) is a young inventor who sets off for Robot City to
work for Big Weld (Mel Brooks), the supreme inven!
tor of the mechanical world. But upon his arrival, Rodney discovers that Big Weld has
disappeared, and the slick, shiny Ratchet (Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets) is phasing
out the spare parts that lumpen robots need to function and replacing them with
"upgrades"');
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delightful designs of William Joyce (writer/illustrator of such popular
children''s books as George Shrinks and Bently & Egg) make Robots a joy to
behold. The round, bouncy, and ramshackle forms of hero Rodney Copperbottom and his
computer-animated friends are part of an ornate and daffy Rube-Goldberg universe of
elaborate contraptions and gleaming metallic surfaces. Rodney (voiced with a
hint-of-Scottish lilt by Ewan McGregor) is a young inventor who sets off for Robot City to
work for Big Weld (Mel Brooks), the supreme inventor of the mechanical world. But upon
his arrival, Rodney discovers that Big Weld has disappeared, and the slick, shiny Ratchet
(Greg Kinnear, As Good As It Gets) is phasing out the spare parts that lumpen robots need
to function and replacing them with "upgrade!
s"');
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('295', 'B00005JNTX', 'Sin City', 29.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JNTX.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Brutal and
breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez''s stunningly realized vision of Frank
Miller''s pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related
stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman
who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight''s (Clive Owen) attempt
to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the
uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop
on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is
himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. <table
align=left cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" > <tr><td
align="center"> <img src="http://g-images.amazon.com/ima!
ges/G/01/books/Comics/robandmiller.gif" border=0 align=top> <br> <span
class="tiny">Read our interview with Frank Miller. </span>
</td></tr> </table> Based on three of Miller''s immensely
popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The Big Fat Kill, and That Yellow
Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie ever made.
Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez (who refers
to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from the Directors
Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books, it''s almost
entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of color (a woman''s
red lips, a villain''s yellow face). The backgrounds are entirely digitally
generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture Miller''s gritty
cityscape. And though most of Miller''s copious nudity is absent, the violence is
unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obs!
tacle to viewers who aren''t already fans of the books and who may hav
e been turned off by Kill Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin
City). In addition, it''s a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are
killers, corruption rules, and the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But
Miller''s stories are riveting, and the huge cast');
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('295', 'B00005JNTX', 'Sin City', 29.99,
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breathtaking, Sin City is Robert Rodriguez''s stunningly realized vision of Frank
Miller''s pulpy comic books. In the first of three separate but loosely related
stories, Marv (Mickey Rourke in heavy makeup) tries to track down the killers of a woman
who ended up dead in his bed. In the second story, Dwight''s (Clive Owen) attempt
to defend a woman from a brutal abuser goes horribly wrong, and threatens to destroy the
uneasy truce among the police, the mob, and the women of Old Town. Finally, an aging cop
on his last day on the job (Bruce Willis) rescues a young girl from a kidnapper, but is
himself thrown in jail. Years later, he has a chance to save her again. Based on three
of Miller''s immensely popular and immensely gritty books (The Hard Goodbye, The
Big Fat Kill, and T!
hat Yellow Bastard), Sin City is unquestionably the most faithful comic-book-based movie
ever made. Each shot looks like a panel from its source material, and director Rodriguez
(who refers to it as a "translation" rather than an adaptation) resigned from
the Directors Guild so that Miller could share a directing credit. Like the books,
it''s almost entirely in stark black and white with some occasional bursts of
color (a woman''s red lips, a villain''s yellow face). The backgrounds are
entirely digitally generated, yet not self-consciously so, and perfectly capture
Miller''s gritty cityscape. And though most of Miller''s copious nudity is
absent, the violence is unrelentingly present. That may be the biggest obstacle to viewers
who aren''t already fans of the books and who may have been turned off by Kill
Bill (whose director, Quentin Tarantino, helmed one scene of Sin City). In addition,
it''s a bleak, desperate world in which the heroes are killers, corruption rules,
and!
the women are almost all prostitutes or strippers. But Miller''s stor
ies are riveting, and the huge cast');
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Third Season', 69.98,
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The Next Generation''s third year was an important development in syndicated
television. After two shaky years, Paramount nonetheless decided the franchise still had
plenty to do. Their confidence was bolstered by two significant factors. First, cast
uncertainties were finally settled: Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) was back for good; Denise
Crosby (Tasha Yar) regretted her first-year departure, and so contrived a return in the
Emmy Award-winning "Yesterday''s Enterprise"; and Whoopi Goldberg
happily continued her actor''s-scale contributions. Second, after the show had
survived the previous year''s writers'' strike, new writing blood
revitalized both characters and ideas: Data experienced fatherhood ("The
Offspring"), Worf''s Klin!
gon heritage kick-started a huge story arc ("Sins of the Father"), and Picard
got a saucy vacation ("Captain''s Holiday"). There were memorable star
cameos: John de Lancie played more mischief alongside Corbin Bernsen
("Déjà Q"); Dwight Schultz played truant in a gentle warning
about addiction ("Hollow Pursuits"); and pleasing fans even more was Mark Lenard
as Spock''s dad ("Sarek"). The strongest evidence that TNG would
continue for some time was the trend-setting cliffhanger finale. Fans and critics still
agree that "The Best of Both Worlds" (properly introducing the Borg) was one of
the greatest tricks ever pulled on TV to make audiences come back for more. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000063V8R.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Star Trek:
The Next Generation''s third year was an important development in syndicated
television. After two shaky years, Paramount nonetheless decided the franchise still had
plenty to do. Their confidence was bolstered by two significant factors. First, cast
uncertainties were finally settled: Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) was back for good; Denise
Crosby (Tasha Yar) regretted her first-year departure, and so contrived a return in the
Emmy Award-winning "Yesterday''s Enterprise"; and Whoopi Goldberg
happily continued her actor''s-scale contributions. Second, after the show had
survived the previous year''s writers'' strike, new writing blood
revitalized both characters and ideas: Data experienced fatherhood ("The
Offspring"), Worf''s Klin!
gon heritage kick-started a huge story arc ("Sins of the Father"), and Picard
got a saucy vacation ("Captain''s Holiday"). There were memorable star
cameos: John de Lancie played more mischief alongside Corbin Bernsen; Dwight Schultz
played truant in a gentle warning about addiction ("Hollow Pursuits"); and
pleasing fans even more was Mark Lenard as Spock''s dad ("Sarek"). The
strongest evidence that TNG would continue for some time was the trend-setting cliffhanger
finale. Fans and critics still agree that "The Best of Both Worlds" (properly
introducing the Borg) was one of the greatest tricks ever pulled on TV to make audiences
come back for more. ');
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acted, mordantly funny romp through 70 years or so of Roman history is one of the
best-loved miniseries ever made, and deservedly so. Derek Jacobi plays Roman Emperor
Claudius, who reflects in old age on his life and his remarkable family, giving us a
history lesson that''s unlike anything you learned in school. The story begins in
24 B.C. during the reign of Augustus Caesar, Rome''s first emperor, and
ends in A.D. 54 with Nero on the throne. In between, I, Claudius details the
scheming, murder, madness, and lust that passed for politics in the early years of the Pax
Romana. The biggest worm in the Roman apple is Augustus''s wife, Livia (the superb
Siân Phillips), whose single-minded pursuit of power shapes the destiny of the
Empire. With a carefully!
planted rumor here and a poisoned fig there, she gradually maneuvers her son, Tiberius,
toward the throne, creating an atmosphere of suspicion and treachery that starts Rome on
its helter-skelter slide into bloody chaos. Phillips somehow makes us understand this
extraordinarily wicked woman. As she ages and her carefully wrought webs begin to unravel,
it becomes clear that Livia has been as thoroughly poisoned by her own ambition as her
victims were by her carefully prepared meals. Further acting honors go to George Baker as
Tiberius, who resists but eventually succumbs to the destiny forced upon him by his
mother, and to John Hurt as a hilarious and absolutely terrifying Caligula. In one
breathtakingly tense scene, the mad Emperor performs a dance in drag, then asks Claudius
to critique it, perfectly capturing the horror of a world where one wrong word means
death, or worse. Jacobi is the perfect Claudius, hiding his intelligence behind a
crippling stammer and shuffling !
around the edges of events');
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acted, mordantly funny romp through 70 years or so of Roman history is one of the
best-loved miniseries ever made, and deservedly so. Derek Jacobi plays Roman Emperor
Claudius, who reflects in old age on his life and his remarkable family, giving us a
history lesson that''s unlike anything you learned in school. The story begins in
24 B.C. during the reign of Augustus Caesar, Rome''s first emperor, and ends in
A.D. 54 with Nero on the throne. In between, I, Claudius details the scheming, murder,
madness, and lust that passed for politics in the early years of the Pax Romana. The
biggest worm in the Roman apple is Augustus''s wife, Livia (the superb Sian
Phillips), whose single-minded pursuit of power shapes the destiny of the Empire. With a
carefully planted rumor here a!
nd a poisoned fig there, she gradually maneuvers her son, Tiberius, toward the throne,
creating an atmosphere of suspicion and treachery that starts Rome on its helter-skelter
slide into bloody chaos. Phillips somehow makes us understand this extraordinarily wicked
woman. As she ages and her carefully wrought webs begin to unravel, it becomes clear that
Livia has been as thoroughly poisoned by her own ambition as her victims were by her
carefully prepared meals. Further acting honors go to George Baker as Tiberius, who
resists but eventually succumbs to the destiny forced upon him by his mother, and to John
Hurt as a hilarious and absolutely terrifying Caligula. In one breathtakingly tense scene,
the mad Emperor performs a dance in drag, then asks Claudius to critique it, perfectly
capturing the horror of a world where one wrong word means death, or worse. Jacobi is the
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'Throughout its phenomenal run, Friends demonstrated that familiarity doesn''t
always breed contempt. But isn''t it nice that even after 10 years, we could still
learn something new about these intimately observed characters? Tidbits revealed in the
episode "The One Where the Stripper Cries": Ross (David Schwimmer) and Monica
(Courtney Cox Arquette) used to entertain at family gatherings as Donny and Marie;
("Oh God, that''s right," remembers Rachel. "I blocked that
out.") and Chandler (Matthew Perry) kissed Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) at a college
party in the 1980s. <table align=left cellpadding="6"
cellspacing="0"> <tr><td align="center"> <img
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border=0 align=top></a> <br>See the <span !
class="tiny">10 or more seasons club</span>. </td></tr>
</table> The best was saved for "The Last One": At one time, Ross (David
Schwimmer) pursued being a professional dancer ("Do you realize we almost made it 10
years without that coming up?," he remarks). Friends'' tenth season is all
about life changes and closure. Monica and Chandler buy a house and make plans to adopt.
Once New Age free spirit Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) gets married. Rachel is offered a job in
Paris, prompting Ross to finally proclaim his love. <table border=0 cellpadding=4
cellspacing=3 width=200 align="right"> <tr> <td><hr noshade
size=1> <b class="h1"> View clips and vote for your favorite Friends
moment. </b> <hr noshade size=1></td> </tr> </table> Two
of Friends''s most invaluable players are granted worthy send-offs. Janice (Maggie
Wheeler) resurfaces as a prospective homebuyer in the house next door to Monica and
Chandler in "The One Where Estelle Dies," and Central Perk fixture Gunther
(James!
Michael Tyler) at last professes his adoration of Rachel in "The Last
One." Christina Applegate makes a welcome return in "The One Where
Rachel''s Sister Babysits" and Danny DeVito is the unlikely and very
temperamental stripper in "The One Where the Stripper Cries." <table border=0
cellpadding=4 cellspacing=3 width=200 align="left"> <tr>
<td><hr noshade size=1> <b class="h1"> Just friends? See our
guide to who kissed whom on Friends. </b> <hr noshade size=1></td>
</tr> </table> Greg Kinnear is at his smarmy best as Ross''s new
girlfriend''s Nobel-prize-winning ex-boyfriend in "The One with
Ross'' Grant." Dakota Fanning has a sweet scene with Joey (Matt LeBlanc) in
"The One with Princess Consuela" and Anna Faris joins Paul Rudd
(Phoebe''s husband Mike, a.k.a. Crap Bag in "Princess Consuela") as a
recurring cast member in "The One with the Birth Mother." Friends''
final season quickly recovers from the Joey-Rachel misstep to find its consistent and
satisfying groove. As each Friend turns in their key to the apartment each had shared at!
one time or another over the past 10 years in "The Last One," could Friends
end on a happier or more poignant note? This final addition to the Friends DVD library,
too, rises to the momentous occasion with a more generous package of features, including a
lengthy gag reel and reflections from the ensemble. ');
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always breed contempt. But isn''t it nice that even after 10 years, we could still
learn something new about these intimately observed characters? Tidbits revealed in the
episode "The One Where the Stripper Cries": Ross (David Schwimmer) and Monica
(Courtney Cox Arquette) used to entertain at family gatherings as Donny and Marie;
("Oh God, that''s right," remembers Rachel. "I blocked that
out.") and Chandler (Matthew Perry) kissed Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) at a college
party in the 1980s. The best was saved for "The Last One": At one time, Ross
(David Schwimmer) pursued being a professional dancer ("Do you realize we almost made
it 10 years without that coming up?," he remarks). Fri!
ends'' tenth season is all about life changes and closure. Monica and Chandler
buy a house and make plans to adopt. Once New Age free spirit Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) gets
married. Rachel is offered a job in Paris, prompting Ross to finally proclaim his love.
Two of Friends''s most invaluable players are granted worthy send-offs. Janice
(Maggie Wheeler) resurfaces as a prospective homebuyer in the house next door to Monica
and Chandler in "The One Where Estelle Dies," and Central Perk fixture Gunther
(James Michael Tyler) at last professes his adoration of Rachel in "The Last
One." Christina Applegate makes a welcome return in "The One Where
Rachel''s Sister Babysits" and Danny DeVito is the unlikely and very
temperamental stripper in "The One Where the Stripper Cries." Greg Kinnear is
at his smarmy best as Ross''s new girlfriend''s Nobel-prize-winning
ex-boyfriend in "The One with Ross'' Grant." Dakota Fanning has a sweet
scene with Joey (Matt LeBlanc) in "The One with Princ!
ess Consuela" and Anna Faris joins Paul Rudd (Phoebe''s husband Mike,
a.k.a. Crap Bag in "Princess Consuela") as a recurring cast member in "The
One with the Birth Mother." Friends'' final season quickly recovers from the
Joey-Rachel misstep to find its consistent and satisfying groove. As each Friend turns in
their key to the apartment each had shared at one time or another over the past 10 years
in "The Last One," could Friends end on a happier or more poignant note? This
final addition to the Friends DVD library, too, rises to the momentous occasion with a
more generous package of features, including a lengthy gag reel and reflections from the
ensemble. ');
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villain and a plot twist that will take many viewers by surprise, Derailed is the kind of
potboiler that''s enjoyable in spite of its flaws. It''s basically
two-thirds of a good movie, with a convincing set-up and a barely plausible payoff that...
well, you''ve just got to see it and decide for yourself. Like Fatal Attraction,
it''s a good-enough thriller that turns infidelity into every man''s
nightmare, beginning when Charles (Clive Owen), a well-to-do Chicago advertising director
with a sickly, diabetic daughter and a slightly troubled marriage, has a chance encounter
with Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor
who''s also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant (between both
characters and stars), but their eventual hotel tryst !
is interrupted by a mugger (French actor Vincent Cassel at his vile, despicable best)
who''s out to milk Charles for every dollar he''s got. Of course, one
phone call to the police would solve everyone''s problems, but as he did with
Collateral (albeit more convincingly), screenwriter Stuart Beattie turns up the tension
with such manipulative skill that you''re willing to skate past the plot holes and
go along for the ride. With lively supporting performances by rappers Xzibit and RZA,
Derailed marks a commercially slick American debut for Swedish director Mikael
Håfström, whose 2003 thriller Evil was a Best Foreign Film
Oscar®-nominee. ');
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villain and a plot twist that will take many viewers by surprise, Derailed is the kind of
potboiler that''s enjoyable in spite of its flaws. It''s basically
two-thirds of a good movie, with a convincing set-up and a barely plausible payoff that...
well, you''ve just got to see it and decide for yourself. Like Fatal Attraction,
it''s a good-enough thriller that turns infidelity into every man''s
nightmare, beginning when Charles (Clive Owen), a well-to-do Chicago advertising director
with a sickly, diabetic daughter and a slightly troubled marriage, has a chance encounter
with Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor
who''s also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant (between both
characters and stars), but their eventual hotel tryst !
is interrupted by a mugger (French actor Vincent Cassel at his vile, despicable best)
who''s out to milk Charles for every dollar he''s got. Of course, one
phone call to the police would solve everyone''s problems, but as he did with
Collateral (albeit more convincingly), screenwriter Stuart Beattie turns up the tension
with such manipulative skill that you''re willing to skate past the plot holes and
go along for the ride. With lively supporting performances by rappers Xzibit and RZA,
Derailed marks a commercially slick American debut for Swedish director Mikael, whose 2003
thriller Evil was a Best Foreign Film Oscar-nominee. ');
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('323', 'B000AP04L0', 'Office Space - Special Edition with Flair
', 19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AP04L0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Ever spend eight hours in a "Productivity Bin"? Ever had worries about
layoffs? Ever had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine? Ever had to
endure a smarmy, condescending boss? Then Office Space should hit pretty close to home for
you. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a
cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts
for a maddening commute to work again in the morning. His coworkers in the cube farm are
an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronizing jerk, and his days are consumed with
tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced
relaxation takes hold, there''s no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at !
his corporation, and with two coworkers (both of whom are slated for the chute) he
devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scheme soon snowballs, however,
throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day. Director
Mike Judge has come up with a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With
well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he
captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen''s work life to a T. Jennifer
Aniston plays Peter''s love interest, a waitress at Chotchkie''s, a
generic beer-and-burger joint à la Chili''s, and Diedrich Bader (The
Drew Carey Show) has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter''s mustached,
long-haired, drywall-installin'' neighbor. ');
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', 19.98, 'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AP04L0.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Ever spend eight hours in a "Productivity Bin"? Ever had worries about
layoffs? Ever had the urge to demolish a temperamental printer or fax machine? Ever had to
endure a smarmy, condescending boss? Then Office Space should hit pretty close to home for
you. Peter (Ron Livingston) spends the day doing stupefyingly dull computer work in a
cubicle. He goes home to an apartment sparsely furnished by IKEA and Target, then starts
for a maddening commute to work again in the morning. His coworkers in the cube farm are
an annoying lot, his boss is a snide, patronizing jerk, and his days are consumed with
tedium. In desperation, he turns to career hypnotherapy, but when his hypno-induced
relaxation takes hold, there''s no shutting it off. Layoffs are in the air at !
his corporation, and with two coworkers (both of whom are slated for the chute) he
devises a scheme to skim funds from company accounts. The scheme soon snowballs, however,
throwing the three into a panic until the unexpected happens and saves the day. Director
Mike Judge has come up with a spot-on look at work in corporate America circa 1999. With
well-drawn characters and situations instantly familiar to the white-collar milieu, he
captures the joylessness of many a cube denizen''s work life to a T. Jennifer
Aniston plays Peter''s love interest, a waitress at Chotchkie''s, a
generic beer-and-burger joint a la Chili''s, and Diedrich Bader (The Drew Carey
Show) has a minor but hilarious turn as Peter''s mustached, long-haired,
drywall-installin'' neighbor. ');
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('328', 'B00003CXTS', 'Save the Last Dance', 12.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXTS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Save the Last
Dance enjoyed a profitable release in early 2001, with box-office earnings that exceeded
anyone''s expectations. Its performance illustrates the staying power of a
formulaic movie that avoids the pitfalls and clichés that would otherwise
render it forgettable. Since there''s nothing new here, you''ll appreciate
the original quirks in a character-based plot that''s just around the corner from
Flashdance, and just as familiar. Sara (Julia Stiles) gave up a promising ballet career
when her mother was killed while rushing to attend her daughter''s crucial
audition to Juilliard; Sara blames herself for the accident, and at her new, mostly
African American high school in Chicago, she''s uncertain of her future. Derek
(Sean Patrick Thomas) has no such doubts; his!
own future is bright, and his attraction to Sara is immediate; they connect
(predictably), and Sara''s dormant funk emerges, with Derek''s coaching,
as she learns hip-hop dancing in a local club. Obligatory subplots are equally routine:
Derek''s sister (Kerry Washington) is a single mom struggling with her
child''s absentee father; Derek''s best friend (Fredro Starr) feels
trapped in his gangsta lifestyle; and Sara''s once-estranged father (Terry Kinney)
is doing his best to correct past mistakes. Within the confines of this standard
follow-your-dream drama, director Thomas Carter capitalizes on a script that allows these
characters to be real, intelligent, and thoughtful about their lives and their futures.
It''s obvious that Stiles''s dancing was intercut with that of a
professional double, but that illusion hardly matters when the rest of the
movie''s so earnestly positive and genuine. ');
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('328', 'B00003CXTS', 'Save the Last Dance', 12.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003CXTS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Save the Last
Dance enjoyed a profitable release in early 2001, with box-office earnings that exceeded
anyone''s expectations. Its performance illustrates the staying power of a
formulaic movie that avoids the pitfalls and cliches that would otherwise render it
forgettable. Since there''s nothing new here, you''ll appreciate the
original quirks in a character-based plot that''s just around the corner from
Flashdance, and just as familiar. Sara (Julia Stiles) gave up a promising ballet career
when her mother was killed while rushing to attend her daughter''s crucial
audition to Juilliard; Sara blames herself for the accident, and at her new, mostly
African American high school in Chicago, she''s uncertain of her future. Derek
(Sean Patrick Thomas) has no such doubts; his own fu!
ture is bright, and his attraction to Sara is immediate; they connect (predictably), and
Sara''s dormant funk emerges, with Derek''s coaching, as she learns
hip-hop dancing in a local club. Obligatory subplots are equally routine: Derek''s
sister (Kerry Washington) is a single mom struggling with her child''s absentee
father; Derek''s best friend (Fredro Starr) feels trapped in his gangsta
lifestyle; and Sara''s once-estranged father (Terry Kinney) is doing his best to
correct past mistakes. Within the confines of this standard follow-your-dream drama,
director Thomas Carter capitalizes on a script that allows these characters to be real,
intelligent, and thoughtful about their lives and their futures. It''s obvious
that Stiles''s dancing was intercut with that of a professional double, but that
illusion hardly matters when the rest of the movie''s so earnestly positive and
genuine. ');
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('345', 'B00005JLO2', 'The Four Feathers ', 9.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JLO2.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'The seventh
filming of A.E.W. Mason''s classic 1902 novel, this near-epic production of The
Four Feathers looks great, sounds great, and feels rather average. It would be difficult
to diminish the rousing adventure of Mason''s novel, and director Shekhar Kapur
(Elizabeth) certainly gets more bang for his buck, with massive battle scenes and rugged,
sun-baked harshness enhanced by Robert Richardson''s masterful cinematography.
Kapur preserves the universal appeal of the story, set in the 1880s, in which a promising
soldier (Heath Ledger) resigns on the eve of battle in Britain''s Sudanese
campaign, is labeled a coward by his fiancée (Kate Hudson), and redeems himself
by posing as a Muslim warrior to rescue his best friend Jack (Wes Bentley) from certain
death in the desert. Fo!
r all its heroics, however, the film seems oddly passionless; Djimon Hounsou is excellent
as Ledger''s desert guardian, but these young Hollywood stars lack the
authenticity of Zoltan Korda''s 1939 film, which remains the definitive version.
');
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('345', 'B00005JLO2', 'The Four Feathers ', 9.98,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JLO2.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'The seventh
filming of A.E.W. Mason''s classic 1902 novel, this near-epic production of The
Four Feathers looks great, sounds great, and feels rather average. It would be difficult
to diminish the rousing adventure of Mason''s novel, and director Shekhar Kapur
(Elizabeth) certainly gets more bang for his buck, with massive battle scenes and rugged,
sun-baked harshness enhanced by Robert Richardson''s masterful cinematography.
Kapur preserves the universal appeal of the story, set in the 1880s, in which a promising
soldier (Heath Ledger) resigns on the eve of battle in Britain''s Sudanese
campaign, is labeled a coward by his fiancee (Kate Hudson), and redeems himself by posing
as a Muslim warrior to rescue his best friend Jack (Wes Bentley) from certain death in the
desert. For all!
its heroics, however, the film seems oddly passionless; Djimon Hounsou is excellent as
Ledger''s desert guardian, but these young Hollywood stars lack the authenticity
of Zoltan Korda''s 1939 film, which remains the definitive version. ');
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('351', '0783230559', 'Henry & June', 9.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0783230559.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg',
'Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband
is slowly defecting from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the
then-unpublished Brooklyn writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on
a journey of seduction and sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his
wife, June (Uma Thurman), who finances her husband''s life in Paris so he may
praise her beauty in his writing. Unhappy with her husband''s writing and her
lovers'' affair, June enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist
mode and Nin back to her husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the
1990s, between Nin and June, the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a
mediocre screenplay and flawed directio!
n. The strength of the original material and Medeiros''s decidedly unflawed
performance, however, make it worth viewing. ');
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('351', '0783230559', 'Henry & June', 9.99,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0783230559.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'Anais Nin
(Maria de Medeiros) is a young woman in 1930s Paris whose husband is slowly defecting
from art to working in a bank, leaving her very bored. When the then-unpublished Brooklyn
writer Henry Miller (Fred Ward) enters her life, she embarks on a journey of seduction and
sexual exploration that eventually leads from the writer to his wife, June (Uma Thurman),
who finances her husband''s life in Paris so he may praise her beauty in his
writing. Unhappy with her husband''s writing and her lovers'' affair, June
enters a jealous rage, forcing Henry into suffering-artist mode and Nin back to her
husband. Despite having one of the more erotic scenes of the 1990s, between Nin and June,
the film does not live up to its subject, largely due to a mediocre screenplay and flawed
direction. Th!
e strength of the original material and Medeiros''s decidedly unflawed
performance, however, make it worth viewing. ');
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('360', 'B00005JG6N', 'My Best Friend''s Wedding ', 14.94,
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best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend''s Wedding not only gave Julia
Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished
itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago
restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college
days with whom she''d made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the
age of 28, they''d marry each other. Just when they''re about to reach the
deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his
seemingly perfect fiancée (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just
three days. That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the
wedding!
and marry the man she now realizes she''s loved all along. With potential
heartbreak waiting in the wings, she''ll either get what she wants or pay the
price for her selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass''s cleverly constructed screenplay
keeps us guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his
scene-stealing performance as Robert''s gay friend who goes along with her
scheming (but only so far), and even as she makes her character''s needy
desperation disarmingly appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her
charming time in the spotlight. As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is
held in a state of giddy suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes
(like a restaurant full of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little
Prayer") that could easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented
filmmaker. It''s no surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997.
');
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('360', 'B00005JG6N', 'My Best Friend''s Wedding ', 14.94,
'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005JG6N.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'One of the
best romantic comedies of the 1990s, My Best Friend''s Wedding not only gave Julia
Roberts a delightful vehicle for her crowd-pleasing comeback, but it further distinguished
itself by avoiding the conventional plotting of the genre. Julia plays a prominent Chicago
restaurant critic whose best friend (Dermot Mulroney) is a former lover from her college
days with whom she''d made a binding pact: if neither of them were married by the
age of 28, they''d marry each other. Just when they''re about to reach the
deadline of their agreement, Mulroney arrives in Chicago to introduce Roberts to his
seemingly perfect fiancee (Cameron Diaz) and announce their wedding in just three days.
That leaves the shocked Julia with just three short days to sabotage the wedding and ma!
rry the man she now realizes she''s loved all along. With potential heartbreak
waiting in the wings, she''ll either get what she wants or pay the price for her
selfish behavior, and Ronald Bass''s cleverly constructed screenplay keeps us
guessing to the very end. Rupert Everett scored rave reviews for his scene-stealing
performance as Robert''s gay friend who goes along with her scheming (but only so
far), and even as she makes her character''s needy desperation disarmingly
appealing, Roberts wisely allows Diaz to capitalize on her charming time in the spotlight.
As the romantic outcome remains uncertain, the viewer is held in a state of giddy
suspense, and director P.J. Hogan pulls off some hilarious scenes (like a restaurant full
of people singing the Dionne Warwick hit "I Say a Little Prayer") that could
easily have fallen flat in the hands of a less talented filmmaker. It''s no
surprise that this was one of the box-office smashes of 1997. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000ASDFGI.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'As one of
many in the ongoing trend of resurrecting old TV shows and turning them into contemporary
Hollywood product, Bewitched tries awfully hard to distinguish itself. It succeeds in lots
of surprising ways, not least of which is the star power brought by Nicole Kidman and Will
Ferrell. Even if they don''t create the kind of romantic chemistry that would have
elevated the already high concept, they act as delightful foils to each other, but more
often to themselves. The conceit of this Bewitched is that it''s a self-reflexive
look at the entertainment business, with Ferrell playing Jack Wyatt, an actor starring in
an updated version of the classic TV show. Out of favor with the Hollywood elite and
desperately in need of a hit, he insists on an unknown to play Samantha, as he wants the
!
show to be about him, since if something doesn''t come his way soon,
he''s going to be hearing a lot of no''s, despite the yes-men surrounding
him. While his agent (Jason Schwartzman in hilarious high Hollywood sleaze mode) gets him
the "unknown Samantha" deal, it''s Jack himself who discovers his own
leading lady in the delightful figure of Isabel Bigalow (Kidman), who possesses just the
right nose wiggle, not to mention other wiggles. But wouldn''t you know it,
Isabel really is a witch, and exactly the kind of "good" witch trying to rely
less on her magical powers that Samantha Stevens was back in her "real" world.
Instead of a cranky mother like Endora, Isabel has a distinguished father, Nigel (Michael
Caine) who lurks around her as a constant reminder that she can''t be who
she''s not (a mere mortal), and she certainly can''t be the star of some
zany TV show. As the plot thickens and the movie''s reflexivity grows more
convoluted, Nigel falls for the non-witch actres!
s who plays Endora (Shirley MacLaine), and Jack and Isabel fall for ea
ch other. Here''s where the Ferrell/Kidman gel doesn’t quite become
aspic, but her perkiness (I mean, come on, it is Nicole Kidman, for crying out loud) and
his goofiness (Ferrell is at his peak of intelligent bumbling) are more than enough to
make the entirety of the proceedings a delectable trifle. Director Nora Ephron has fun
skewering her own business in the script she co-wrote with her sister Delia, and her eye
for quality craft makes everything sparkle as it should. Even if we have yet to see the
definitive remake of an old TV show on the big screen, at least Bewitched is well more
than run-of-the-mill as so many adaptations have been, and so many will be. ');
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'http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000ASDFGI.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg', 'As one of
many in the ongoing trend of resurrecting old TV shows and turning them into contemporary
Hollywood product, Bewitched tries awfully hard to distinguish itself. It succeeds in lots
of surprising ways, not least of which is the star power brought by Nicole Kidman and Will
Ferrell. Even if they don''t create the kind of romantic chemistry that would have
elevated the already high concept, they act as delightful foils to each other, but more
often to themselves. The conceit of this Bewitched is that it''s a self-reflexive
look at the entertainment business, with Ferrell playing Jack Wyatt, an actor starring in
an updated version of the classic TV show. Out of favor with the Hollywood elite and
desperately in need of a hit, he insists on an unknown to play Samantha, as he wants the
!
show to be about him, since if something doesn''t come his way soon,
he''s going to be hearing a lot of no''s, despite the yes-men surrounding
him. While his agent (Jason Schwartzman in hilarious high Hollywood sleaze mode) gets him
the "unknown Samantha" deal, it''s Jack himself who discovers his own
leading lady in the delightful figure of Isabel Bigalow (Kidman), who possesses just the
right nose wiggle, not to mention other wiggles. But wouldn''t you know it,
Isabel really is a witch, and exactly the kind of "good" witch trying to rely
less on her magical powers that Samantha Stevens was back in her "real" world.
Instead of a cranky mother like Endora, Isabel has a distinguished father, Nigel (Michael
Caine) who lurks around her as a constant reminder that she can''t be who
she''s not (a mere mortal), and she certainly can''t be the star of some
zany TV show. As the plot thickens and the movie''s reflexivity grows more
convoluted, Nigel falls for the non-witch actres!
s who plays Endora (Shirley MacLaine), and Jack and Isabel fall for ea
ch other. Here''s where the Ferrell/Kidman gel doesn''t quite become
aspic, but her perkiness (I mean, come on, it is Nicole Kidman, for crying out loud) and
his goofiness (Ferrell is at his peak of intelligent bumbling) are more than enough to
make the entirety of the proceedings a delectable trifle. Director Nora Ephron has fun
skewering her own business in the script she co-wrote with her sister Delia, and her eye
for quality craft makes everything sparkle as it should. Even if we have yet to see the
definitive remake of an old TV show on the big screen, at least Bewitched is well more
than run-of-the-mill as so many adaptations have been, and so many will be. ');
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ranked highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman
and based on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly
perceptive drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the
course of writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately
acclaimed as a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb,
Kansas, in November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith
(Clifton Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their
story, but he ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book.
Hoffman transcen!
ds mere mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an
insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett
Miller''s intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote''s
literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper
Lee, Capote''s friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as
Capote''s quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the
Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces
of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were
fitted with a hangman''s noose. ');
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highly among the best films of 2005. Written by actor/screenwriter Dan Futterman and based
on selected chapters from the biography by Gerald Clarke, this mercilessly perceptive
drama shows how Truman Capote brought about his own self-destruction in the course of
writing In Cold Blood, the "nonfiction novel" that was immediately acclaimed as
a literary milestone. After learning of brutal killings in rural Holcomb, Kansas, in
November 1959, Capote gained the confidence of captured killers Perry Smith (Clifton
Collins, Jr.) and Dick Hickock (Mark Pellegrino) in an effort to tell their story, but he
ultimately sacrificed his soul in the process of writing his greatest book. Hoffman
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e mimicry to create an utterly authentic, psychologically tormented portrait of an
insincere artist who was not above lying and manipulation to get what he needed. Bennett
Miller''s intimate direction focuses on the consequences of Capote''s
literary ambition, tempered by an equally fine performance by Catherine Keener as Harper
Lee, Capote''s friend and the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, who served as
Capote''s quiet voice of conscience. Spanning the seven-year period between the
Kansas murders and the publication of In Cold Blood in 1966, Capote reveals the many faces
of a writer who grew too close to his subjects, losing his moral compass as they were
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filmmaking than Tom DiCillo''s 1995 independent feature, Living in Oblivion,
wherein a motley cast of would-be artistes blunders its way through a day on the set.
Steve Buscemi plays goateed Nick Reve, a harried, sweating director whose crew of
numbskulls and egotists seems hell-bent on ruining his film. The trials and tribulations
of independent filmmaking are not foreign material for writer-director DiCillo, who cut
his teeth as Jim Jarmusch''s cinematographer on 1985''s Stranger Than
Paradise before going on to direct his own work, such as the offbeat 1992 comedy Johnny
Suede. Like that film, Living in Oblivion rides a precariously thin line between the real
and the surreal, featuring a midget act!
or and an exploding smoke-effects machine, as well as a ridiculously narcissistic Brad
Pittesque character played by James Le Gros. While films like Get Shorty,
François Truffaut''s Day for Night, and Jean-Luc Godard''s
Contempt suggest that moviemaking is hip and glamorous, Living in Oblivion will have none
of that. The film within the film feels like a director''s primer on what not to
do, and this modest-budget gem both lovingly and caustically strips the "cool"
veneer from the filmmaking process. They should show this one to kids thinking of entering
film school. It might make them think better of it. ');
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filmmaking than Tom DiCillo''s 1995 independent feature, Living in Oblivion,
wherein a motley cast of would-be artistes blunders its way through a day on the set.
Steve Buscemi plays goateed Nick Reve, a harried, sweating director whose crew of
numbskulls and egotists seems hell-bent on ruining his film. The trials and tribulations
of independent filmmaking are not foreign material for writer-director DiCillo, who cut
his teeth as Jim Jarmusch''s cinematographer on 1985''s Stranger Than
Paradise before going on to direct his own work, such as the offbeat 1992 comedy Johnny
Suede. Like that film, Living in Oblivion rides a precariously thin line between the real
and the surreal, featuring a midget act!
or and an exploding smoke-effects machine, as well as a ridiculously narcissistic Brad
Pittesque character played by James Le Gros. While films like Get Shorty, Francois
Truffaut''s Day for Night, and Jean-Luc Godard''s Contempt suggest that
moviemaking is hip and glamorous, Living in Oblivion will have none of that. The film
within the film feels like a director''s primer on what not to do, and this
modest-budget gem both lovingly and caustically strips the "cool" veneer from
the filmmaking process. They should show this one to kids thinking of entering film
school. It might make them think better of it. ');
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study in contrast, so bracingly original that you''ll want to send director Spike
Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman a thank-you note for restoring your faith in the
enchantment of film. Even if it ultimately serves little purpose beyond the thrill of
comedic invention, this demented romance is gloriously entertaining, spilling over with
ideas that tickle the brain and even touch the heart. That''s to be expected in a
movie that dares to ponder the existential dilemma of a forlorn puppeteer (John Cusack)
who discovers a metaphysical portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. The
puppeteer''s working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a
Manhattan o!
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Jonze and Kaufman are just getting started. Add a devious coworker (Catherine Keener),
Cusack''s dowdy wife (a barely recognizable Cameron Diaz), and a business scheme
to capitalize on the thrill of being John Malkovich, and you''ve got a movie that
just gets crazier as it plays by its own outrageous rules. Malkovich himself is the
film''s pièce de résistance, riffing on his own persona
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study in contrast, so bracingly original that you''ll want to send director Spike
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enchantment of film. Even if it ultimately serves little purpose beyond the thrill of
comedic invention, this demented romance is gloriously entertaining, spilling over with
ideas that tickle the brain and even touch the heart. That''s to be expected in a
movie that dares to ponder the existential dilemma of a forlorn puppeteer (John Cusack)
who discovers a metaphysical portal into the brain of actor John Malkovich. The
puppeteer''s working as a file clerk on the seventh-and-a-half floor of a
Manhattan o!
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Jonze and Kaufman are just getting started. Add a devious coworker (Catherine Keener),
Cusack''s dowdy wife (a barely recognizable Cameron Diaz), and a business scheme
to capitalize on the thrill of being John Malkovich, and you''ve got a movie that
just gets crazier as it plays by its own outrageous rules. Malkovich himself is the
film''s piece de resistance, riffing on his own persona with obvious delight
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appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer,
is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps
over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend
Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with
100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than
forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic
vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller
coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni');
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appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer,
is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps
over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend
Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000
deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds
out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted
with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed
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long (142 minutes) to sustain its story. Those complaints miss the point, because
the passage of time is crucial to this story about patience, the squeaky wheels of
justice, and the growth of a life-long friendship. Only when the film reaches its final,
emotionally satisfying scene do you fully understand why writer-director Frank Darabont
(adapting a novella by Stephen King) allows the story to unfold at its necessary pace, and
the effect is dramatically rewarding. Tim Robbins plays a banker named Andy who''s
sent to Shawshank Prison on a murder charge, but as he gets to know a life-term prisoner
named Red (Morgan Freeman), we realize there''s reason to believe the bank!
er''s crime was justifiable. We also realize that Andy''s calm, quiet
exterior hides a great reserve of patience and fortitude, and Red comes to admire this
mild-mannered man who first struck him as weak and unfit for prison life. So it is that
The Shawshank Redemption builds considerable impact as a prison drama that defies the
conventions of the genre (violence, brutality, riots) to illustrate its theme of faith,
friendship, and survival. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture,
Actor, and Screenplay, it''s a remarkable film that signaled the arrival of a
promising new filmmaker');
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the effect is dramatically rewarding. Tim Robbins plays a banker named Andy who''s
sent to Shawshank Prison on a murder charge, but as he gets to know a life-term prisoner
named Red (Morgan Freeman), we realize there''s reason to believe the
banker''s!
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great reserve of patience and fortitude, and Red comes to admire this mild-mannered man
who first struck him as weak and unfit for prison life. So it is that The Shawshank
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genre (violence, brutality, riots) to illustrate its theme of faith, friendship, and
survival. Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor, and
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script, which feels like an old guy''s idea of how kids talk and think, concerns
the young employees of a Delaware music shop faced with imminent extinction. While the
ship is sinking, the staff indulge in tantrums, depressions, and run-ins with low
self-esteem. There''s a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said.
Rory Cochrane has the best part as a secretive guy who loses the store''s proceeds
one night while gambling, Anthony LaPaglia is the adult boss and unofficial dad to the
others, Renée Zellweger plays a promiscuous girl, and Liv Tyler is OK as a
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script, which feels like an old guy''s idea of how kids talk and think, concerns
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self-esteem. There''s a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said.
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film. Having taken a stage production of Hamlet to Russia where it was rapturously
received, self-confessed Slavophile actor Ralph Fiennes must have thought he was making
reparation when he executive-produced and starred in this faithful adaptation of the film.
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more than a little of the solemnity one often discovers in "personal projects".
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dress (this time early 19th century). The character, a jaded roué from St.
Petersburg, summers in the countryside where he inadvertently wins the heart of the
impulsive Tatyana (Liv Tyler, the girl they book when Gwyneth Paltrow''s busy).
Onegin''s casual attitude to her love leads to a tragic duel (magnificently tense
and perfectly staged), and years later a chance meeting stirs up feelings of regret,
triumph, and moral queasiness. Tears well in eyes, letters are sent and read, furs are
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among the gentry, it''s surprising Russian filmmakers have balked at adapting the
film. Having taken a stage production of Hamlet to Russia where it was rapturously
received, self-confessed Slavophile actor Ralph Fiennes must have thought he was making
reparation when he executive-produced and starred in this faithful adaptation of the film.
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more than a little of the solemnity one often discovers in "personal projects".
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role: his Onegin is yet another of the actor''s wintry, haunted lovers in period
dress (this time early 19th century). The character, a jaded roue; from St. Petersburg,
summers in the countryside where he inadvertently wins the heart of the impulsive Tatyana
(Liv Tyler, the girl they book when Gwyneth Paltrow''s busy). Onegin''s
casual attitude to her love leads to a tragic duel (magnificently tense and perfectly
staged), and years later a chance meeting stirs up feelings of regret, triumph, and moral
queasiness. Tears well in eyes, letters are sent and read, furs are ruffled in the snow.
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fans of Robert Altman will want to check out this drowsy Southern comedy, which is shot
through with the director''s feel for location and his musical sense of
storytelling. Non-Altman fanatics might want to tread more carefully. Cookie''s
Fortune begins beautifully, as handyman Willis (Charles S. Dutton) staggers home
from a blues club in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the wee hours of a
warm night, he has an affectionate chat with elderly matriarch Jewel Mae
"Cookie" Orcutt (the grand Patricia Neal) and the gentle history of their
friendship is sketched in a few brief exchanges. Soon enough, Cookie has checked out of
this world to join her dear departed husband, prompting her nieces to make the suicide
look like a murder');
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fans of Robert Altman will want to check out this drowsy Southern comedy, which is shot
through with the director''s feel for location and his musical sense of
storytelling. Non-Altman fanatics might want to tread more carefully. Cookie''s
Fortune begins beautifully, as handyman Willis (Charles S. Dutton) staggers home from a
blues club in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. In the wee hours of a warm
night, he has an affectionate chat with elderly matriarch Jewel Mae "Cookie"
Orcutt (the grand Patricia Neal) and the gentle history of their friendship is sketched
in a few brief exchanges. Soon enough, Cookie has checked out of this world to join her
dear departed husband, prompting her nieces to make the suicide look like a
murder');
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Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director
Michael Bay''s epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World
War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliché (some affectionate, some
stale) you''ve ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie
practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon');
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Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director
Michael Bay''s epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World
War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliche; (some affectionate, some stale)
you''ve ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie
practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon');
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bigger is actually better. Nearly matching the size of director Michael Bay''s
ego, this massive four-disc set is a veritable Pearl Harbor archive, and ironically,
Bay''s film remains the least interesting component. It''s a purely
conventional Hollywood take on the tragedy, using a clichéd love triangle between
two ace pilots (Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck) and a Pearl Harbor nurse (Kate Beckinsale) as
an "intimate" means of spectacularly re-creating the attack that thrust America
into World War II. The director''s cut adds little to the previous DVD release,
apart from authentic R-rated carnage during the Japanese raid, and minor expansion of the
Hartnett-Beckinsale romance. Commentaries range from superfluous (Bay and film historian
Jeanine Basinger) to highly entertain!
ing (Ben Affleck and costars) and technically informative (primary production team), and
a spirited examination of visual effects (with Bay and ILM supervisor Eric Brevig) is
guaranteed to fascinate anyone interested in physical effects and CGI. A broad
"making of" documentary is noteworthy for one-time viewing, while abundant
historical records make this a valuable compilation of definitive materials. The History
Channel''s "One Hour over Tokyo" and "Unsung Heroes of Pearl
Harbor" provide depth that Bay''s movie lacks, and Charles
Kiselyak''s interactive timeline is arguably the finest feature included,
providing an in-depth historical perspective on U.S.-Japan relations. Even a brief
reenactment of a Pearl Harbor nurse''s journal is moving in a way that
Bay''s film can only try to be, while the "Interactive Attack Sequence"
provides a multifaceted exploration of the entire production process (a highly educational
feature for aspiring filmmakers). All in all, these four !
discs offer an admirable balance between Bay''s technically impressive
but ill-conceived epic and a thorough, fitting tribute to those who endured hell on that
fateful Sunday in 1941. ');
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bigger is actually better. Nearly matching the size of director Michael Bay''s
ego, this massive four-disc set is a veritable Pearl Harbor archive, and ironically,
Bay''s film remains the least interesting component. It''s a purely
conventional Hollywood take on the tragedy, using a cliched love triangle between two ace
pilots (Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck) and a Pearl Harbor nurse (Kate Beckinsale) as an
"intimate" means of spectacularly re-creating the attack that thrust America
into World War II. The director''s cut adds little to the previous DVD release,
apart from authentic R-rated carnage during the Japanese raid, and minor expansion of the
Hartnett-Beckinsale romance. Commentaries range from superfluous (Bay and film historian
Jeanine Basinger) to highly entertaining (!
Ben Affleck and costars) and technically informative (primary production team), and a
spirited examination of visual effects (with Bay and ILM supervisor Eric Brevig) is
guaranteed to fascinate anyone interested in physical effects and CGI. A broad
"making of" documentary is noteworthy for one-time viewing, while abundant
historical records make this a valuable compilation of definitive materials. The History
Channel''s "One Hour over Tokyo" and "Unsung Heroes of Pearl
Harbor" provide depth that Bay''s movie lacks, and Charles
Kiselyak''s interactive timeline is arguably the finest feature included,
providing an in-depth historical perspective on U.S.-Japan relations. Even a brief
reenactment of a Pearl Harbor nurse''s journal is moving in a way that
Bay''s film can only try to be, while the "Interactive Attack Sequence"
provides a multifaceted exploration of the entire production process (a highly educational
feature for aspiring filmmakers). All in all, these four discs!
offer an admirable balance between Bay''s technically impressive but
ill-conceived epic and a thorough, fitting tribute to those who endured hell on that
fateful Sunday in 1941. ');
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is one of those movies that is all about the vision of the director, in this case, screen
legend Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring none other than Jack Nicholson, and featuring a
plot billed as an international romantic thriller, The Passenger defies expectations by
turning the genre on its head, making the characters and the story secondary to theme and
tone. London-based Journalist David Locke (Nicholson) is working in North Africa when a
fellow traveler by the name of David Robertson, who looks remarkably like him, happens to
die suddenly. Burned out and depleted, Locke decides to assume the dead man’s
identity, drops everything, and starts again as a new man with a new life. With no idea of
who Robertson was or what he did for a living, Locke uses Robertson’!
s datebook as a guide as he travels through Europe and Africa, takes meetings with people
he finds out are gun runners, and ends up falling for a beautiful young woman (Maria
Schneider). As Robertson, David Locke thinks he has found an exhilirating new freedom, but
the fact is he''s in over his head: there are people looking for him and his life
could be in danger. The movie is a thriller in structure only. While designed for
suspense, it’s just a premise for Antonioni to explore on themes of identity,
humankind’s seemingly futile relationship to the world around us, and isolation.
For Antonioni, the action is the means by which the image unfolds, and not the other way
around. The actors and the plot are set pieces, simply smaller means to a larger end, and
the image and atmosphere supersede all else. A slow pace, long, lingering shots, a focus
on emptiness, and a detached, almost brutally objective point of view are the trademarks
on full display here. Especi!
ally notable is the stunning seven-minute long shot in the final scene
, one of the most famous in cinema history, which Nicholson, in his commentary, tags as an
"Antonioni joke." It caps a crowning achievement by one of the big
screen’s most visionary directors. <b>On the DVD:</b><br> The
commentaries are most definitely welcome guides, and those looking for a way into the
movie and into Antonioni’s head will really enjoy them. Jack Nicholson provides
one commentary track where he generously shares his memories of the shoot, his thoughts on
the movie thirty years on, and lets out the secret of how they managed to get the camera
through the bars on the window for that seven-minute shot in the last scene. On the second
commentary track, journalist Aurora Irvine and screenwriter Mark Peploe offer more of a
wide-angle lens view of the movie and its place in history. Both are insightful
narratives—Nicholson’s is particularly enjoyable');
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is one of those movies that is all about the vision of the director, in this case, screen
legend Michelangelo Antonioni. Starring none other than Jack Nicholson, and featuring a
plot billed as an international romantic thriller, The Passenger defies expectations by
turning the genre on its head, making the characters and the story secondary to theme and
tone. London-based Journalist David Locke (Nicholson) is working in North Africa when a
fellow traveler by the name of David Robertson, who looks remarkably like him, happens to
die suddenly. Burned out and depleted, Locke decides to assume the dead man''s
identity, drops everything, and starts again as a new man with a new life. With no idea of
who Robertson was or what he did for a living, Locke uses Robertson''s datebo!
ok as a guide as he travels through Europe and Africa, takes meetings with people he
finds out are gun runners, and ends up falling for a beautiful young woman (Maria
Schneider). As Robertson, David Locke thinks he has found an exhilirating new freedom, but
the fact is he''s in over his head: there are people looking for him and his life
could be in danger. The movie is a thriller in structure only. While designed for
suspense, it''s just a premise for Antonioni to explore on themes of identity,
humankind''s seemingly futile relationship to the world around us, and isolation.
For Antonioni, the action is the means by which the image unfolds, and not the other way
around. The actors and the plot are set pieces, simply smaller means to a larger end, and
the image and atmosphere supersede all else. A slow pace, long, lingering shots, a focus
on emptiness, and a detached, almost brutally objective point of view are the trademarks
on full display here. Especially notable is !
the stunning seven-minute long shot in the final scene, one of the mos
t famous in cinema history, which Nicholson, in his commentary, tags as an "Antonioni
joke." It caps a crowning achievement by one of the big screen''s most
visionary directors. On the DVD: The commentaries are most definitely welcome guides, and
those looking for a way into the movie and into Antonioni''s head will really
enjoy them. Jack Nicholson provides one commentary track where he generously shares his
memories of the shoot, his thoughts on the movie thirty years on, and lets out the secret
of how they managed to get the camera through the bars on the window for that seven-minute
shot in the last scene. On the second commentary track, journalist Aurora Irvine and
screenwriter Mark Peploe offer more of a wide-angle lens view of the movie and its place
in history. Both are insightful narratives. Nicholson''s is particularly
enjoyable');
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strange ''50s nostalgia wave that swept through America during the late 1970s
(caused by TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti), Grease became not
only the word in 1978, but also a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon. Twenty years
later, this entertaining film adaptation of the Broadway musical received another
successful theatrical release, which included visual remastering and a shiny new Dolby
soundtrack. In this 2002 DVD release, Grease lovers can also now see it in the correct
2:35 to 1 Panavision aspect ratio, and see retrospective interviews with cast members and
director Randal Kleiser. All these stylistic touches are essential to the film''s
success. Without the vibrant colors, unforgettably campy and catchy tunes (like
"Greased Lightning," "Su!
mmer Nights," and "You''re the One That I Want"), and fabulously
choreographed, widescreen musical numbers, the film would have to rely on a silly,
cliché-filled plot that we''ve seen hundreds of times. As it is, the
episodic story about the romantic dilemmas experienced by a group of graduating high
school seniors remains fresh, fun, and incredibly imaginative. The young, animated cast
also deserves a lot of credit, bringing chemistry and energy to otherwise bland material.
John Travolta, straight from his success in Saturday Night Fever, knows his sexual star
power and struts, swaggers, sings, and dances appropriately, while Olivia
Newton-John''s portrayal of virgin innocence is the only decent acting
she''s ever done. And then there''s Stockard Channing, spouting sexual
double-entendres as Rizzo, the bitchy, raunchy leader of the Pink Ladies, who steals the
film from both of its stars. Ignore the sequel at all costs. ');
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strange ''50s nostalgia wave that swept through America during the late 1970s
(caused by TV shows like Happy Days and films like American Graffiti), Grease became not
only the word in 1978, but also a box-office smash and a cultural phenomenon. Twenty years
later, this entertaining film adaptation of the Broadway musical received another
successful theatrical release, which included visual remastering and a shiny new Dolby
soundtrack. In this 2002 DVD release, Grease lovers can also now see it in the correct
2:35 to 1 Panavision aspect ratio, and see retrospective interviews with cast members and
director Randal Kleiser. All these stylistic touches are essential to the film''s
success. Without the vibrant colors, unforgettably campy and catchy tunes (like
"Greased Lightning," "Su!
mmer Nights," and "You''re the One That I Want"), and fabulously
choreographed, widescreen musical numbers, the film would have to rely on a silly,
cliche-filled plot that we''ve seen hundreds of times. As it is, the episodic
story about the romantic dilemmas experienced by a group of graduating high school seniors
remains fresh, fun, and incredibly imaginative. The young, animated cast also deserves a
lot of credit, bringing chemistry and energy to otherwise bland material. John Travolta,
straight from his success in Saturday Night Fever, knows his sexual star power and struts,
swaggers, sings, and dances appropriately, while Olivia Newton-John''s portrayal
of virgin innocence is the only decent acting she''s ever done. And then
there''s Stockard Channing, spouting sexual double-entendres as Rizzo, the bitchy,
raunchy leader of the Pink Ladies, who steals the film from both of its stars. Ignore the
sequel at all costs. ');
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cinema''s great disappearing acts came to a close with the release of The Thin Red
Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood
visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days of Heaven
(1978), returned to the director''s chair after a 20-year coffee break.
Malick''s comeback vehicle is a fascinating choice: a wide-ranging adaptation of
a World War II novel (filmed once before, in 1964) by James Jones. The battle
for Guadalcanal Island gives Malick an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature
of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional
war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence,
but he''s just as lik!
ely to meander into pure philosophical noodling');
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Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood
visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days of Heaven
(1978), returned to the director''s chair after a 20-year coffee break.
Malick''s comeback vehicle is a fascinating choice: a wide-ranging adaptation of
a World War II novel (filmed once before, in 1964) by James Jones. The battle for
Guadalcanal Island gives Malick an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of
life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional
war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence,
but he''s just as likely t!
o meander into pure philosophical noodling');
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temperature in a flash. After the movie''s release in 1977, disco ruled the dance
floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the
U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from
Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his
family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub;
Tony''s brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd
parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection
between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony''s
ambitions to break out!
of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is
dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive"
(Travolta''s theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The
Oscar<sup>®</sup>-nominated Travolta, plucked from the cast of
Welcome Back, Kotter, for his first starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably
confident, and his dancing is terrific. Oh, and the white suit rules. ');
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Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural
temperature in a flash. After the movie''s release in 1977, disco ruled the dance
floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the
U.S. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian American from
Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works in a humble paint store and lives with his
family. After dark, he becomes the polyester-clad stallion of the local nightclub;
Tony''s brother, a priest, observes that when Tony hits the dance floor, the crowd
parts like the Red Sea before Moses. Director John Badham captures the electric connection
between music and dance, and also the desperation that lies beneath Tony''s
ambitions to break out!
of his limited world. The soundtrack, which spawned a massively successful album, is
dominated by the disco classics of the Bee Gees, including "Staying Alive"
(Travolta''s theme during the strutting opening) and "Night Fever." The
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starring role, is incandescent and unbelievably confident, and his dancing is terrific.
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Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen
adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden
age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is
about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to
protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid exposé.
In an Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her
wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will
join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine u!
nder the sophisticated direction of George Cukor in this film that turned the tide of
Hepburn''s career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star.
');
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the role she originated in Philip Barry''s wickedly witty Broadway play, Katharine
Hepburn stars as the spoiled and snobby socialite Tracy Lord in this sparkling 1940 screen
adaptation of The Philadelphia Story, one of the great romantic comedies from the golden
age of MGM studios. Applying her impossibly high ideals to everyone but herself, Tracy is
about to marry a stuffy executive when her congenial ex-husband (Cary Grant), arrives to
protect his former father-in-law from a potentially scandalous tabloid expose. In an
Oscar-winning role, James Stewart is the scandal reporter who falls for Tracy as her
wedding day arrives, throwing her into a dizzying state of premarital jitters. Who will
join Tracy at the altar? Snappy dialogue flows like sparkling wine under th!
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Hepburn''s career from "box-office poison" to glamorous Hollywood star.
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