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] | 103 | 147 | I saw the movie at the Nashville film festival on May 1, 2003! It was amazing! All the things that I had read about Stuey were portrayed incredibly well by Tony Vidmer (writer, director, producer, editor), Michael Imperioli (incredible job as Stuey), and all the others involved in this. I'm glad he (Vidmer) didn't go d... | 1 |
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17,602 | [
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17,603 | [
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17,604 | [
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17,605 | [
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17,606 | [
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17,607 | [
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17,608 | [
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17,609 | [
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17,611 | [
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17,612 | [
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17,615 | [
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17,616 | [
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17,617 | [
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17,618 | [
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17,619 | [
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17,620 | [
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17,621 | [
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17,622 | [
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17,623 | [
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17,624 | [
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17,625 | [
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17,626 | [
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17,627 | [
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17,628 | [
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] | 132 | 170 | i really liked this film.it features John Wayne in his first starring performance.even then,you can tell Wayne has a real presence,although he wouldn't really mature into the icon he is known for until Stagecoach,9 years later in 1939.it's about settlers from all over the country heading to the new west to colonize it.... | 1 |
17,629 | [
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17,630 | [
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17,631 | [
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17,632 | [
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17,633 | [
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17,634 | [
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17,635 | [
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17,636 | [
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Considering the year the movie was made I was absolutely amazed and thoroughly impressed with the amount of attention dedicated to the scenes and with what appears to be authenticity. Though I am not particularly a western movie buff
.every single scene is given the utmost detail, a... | 1 |
17,638 | [
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17,639 | [
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17,640 | [
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17,641 | [
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] | 100 | 123 | Raoul Walsh's mega-epic, stunning filmed in an early widescreen process by the great Arthur Edeson, can be slow and static in the early talkie manner, but this classic wagon train journey across America to the NorthWest is thrilling as a sheer physical production when seen on the big screen. On t.v., the lack of close-... | 1 |
17,642 | [
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17,643 | [
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17,644 | [
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] | 449 | 590 | 044: The Big Trail (1930) - released 10/24/1930; viewed 4/5/06.<br /><br />BIRTHS: Richard Harris, Harold Pinter, Robert Atkins.<br /><br />DOUG: In Hollywood, Raoul Walsh unveiled his latest film, The Big Trail, a western about the trek west across the frontier, starring up-and-coming 23-year-old actor John Wayne. In ... | 1 |
17,645 | [
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17,646 | [
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17,647 | [
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17,648 | [
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17,649 | [
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17,650 | [
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17,651 | [
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17,652 | [
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17,653 | [
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17,654 | [
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17,655 | [
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17,656 | [
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17,657 | [
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17,658 | [
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17,659 | [
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17,660 | [
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17,661 | [
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17,662 | [
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17,663 | [
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17,664 | [
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17,665 | [
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17,666 | [
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17,667 | [
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17,668 | [
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17,669 | [
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17,670 | [
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17,671 | [
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17,672 | [
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17,673 | [
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17,674 | [
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17,675 | [
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17,676 | [
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17,677 | [
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17,678 | [
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17,679 | [
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17,680 | [
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17,681 | [
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17,682 | [
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] | 139 | 159 | Excellent special effects make this disaster move very plausible. One can see that the producers went to some trouble to get the displays on the computer screens just right - it all makes it very convincing. The sets are also very authentic looking. A good choice of music rounds off the film nicely.<br /><br />Acting i... | 1 |
17,683 | [
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] | 145 | 184 | The three main characters are all hopeless, and yet you only feel sorry for one of them: Ernesto, hopelessly devoted to Mercedes. This was part of the frustration: screaming at Mercedes to get a clue and ditch the no-good Harry, to no avail.<br /><br />Then there's the satisfaction: Steve Buscemi has a great part as a ... | 1 |
17,684 | [
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] | 453 | 550 | Rosie Perez is the lead in this very engaging affair, cast as Mercedes, a young woman from Brooklyn who has resolved to become a film actress although not favoured by her circumstances, living in East Los Angeles and struggling with a series of fruitless auditions for any sort of part at all. Mercedes has hooked up wit... | 1 |
17,685 | [
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] | 117 | 140 | I saw FAREWELL TO HARRY at the Plaza Theatre while in New York city and was quite taken. The performance of William Hall Jr. is tremendous. This is a movie for the classic movie goer. Garrett Bennett's direction reminds me of early Barry Levinson and Robert Redford's work. The movie seems to transcend the typical indep... | 1 |
17,686 | [
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] | 126 | 144 | I just watched the movie tonight and i found it brilliant. It doesn't have special effects that blow your mind, and it's not violent or bloody, no terrorist or aliens but it's brilliant. It's just plain nice, sweet and it brought me to a whole different time, a much simpler time, where people could take their time to w... | 1 |
17,687 | [
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] | 406 | 460 | This is a quiet movie. It's a simple story about a writer who cannot write his story coming back to his home town to get started but instead he gets involved in a friendship with a weird older man whose life externally represents perhaps the internal state of the writer - it's a museum of unfinished ideas, outdated equ... | 1 |
17,688 | [
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] | 223 | 264 | Seeing Gary Busey in a G rated film was a first and a nice one at that. I don't know much about the director, but he obviously knows how to spend a few dollars and get the most out of them. Where did Jillian Clare come from? My kids love her! The only thing I remember Christopher Atkins doing was Blue Lagoon. Disney ne... | 1 |
17,689 | [
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] | 122 | 148 | My entire family enjoyed this film, including 2 small children. Great values without sex, violence, drugs, nudity, or profanity. Also no zillion dollar special effects were added to try to misdirect viewers from a poorly written storyline. A simple little family fun movie. We especially like the songs in the movie. But... | 1 |
17,690 | [
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] | 178 | 216 | Living just down the Hwy from Georgetown, Co...I remember this movie well and thought it was great! The story seems like something John would do even in real life, but there is something that I will always remember most about the movie. For those of you who don't live in Denver...every Christmas, the city of Denver, Co... | 1 |
17,691 | [
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] | 282 | 327 | The GREAT NEWS is that this film is now AVAILABLE on DVD from http://treasureflix.com for all those who wish to own it as well as on video.This is good news as it is one of my favourite films!<br /><br />I watched this film for the first time in the 80s and it is compulsory holiday viewing. Living in the small market t... | 1 |
17,692 | [
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] | 46 | 56 | This is an excellent movie and should be presented every year during the holidays @ Christmas! Beautiful with great acting. John Denver at his best, i,e, sincere, kind, talented, and natural. The town is Georgetown, Colorado and every bit as lovely as in the story. | 1 |
17,693 | [
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] | 54 | 62 | I just finished watching the movie tonight and I truly loved it. John Denver didn't play a pastor, but it was the reverend of the little town who decided to leave the floor for John Denver to speak. It's a really great movie with a wonderful Christmas message. It was also fun to watch. | 1 |
17,694 | [
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] | 168 | 188 | My Santa Lucia Choir was chosen to be in this movie. All 100 plus. When it came time to film the movie I was asked to chose just 10. Oh my goodness. We had a little gal who went early to have her tonsils out because she wanted to be in the movie. The choices were hard to make. The people of Georgetown are just a lovely... | 1 |
17,695 | [
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] | 151 | 180 | Even if I had never seen or heard of Georgetown, CO, this would be a sweet little movie. But my dad was born and raised there, and those are my uncle's horses you see pulling the sleigh! So this movie is very special to me. A lot of the interiors are shot in buildings and houses I recognize, and are very realistic. The... | 1 |
17,696 | [
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] | 128 | 145 | It was good to see John Denver again though he passed several years ago. I found this film to be very heartwarming and a great film to sit by the fire on a cold winters night recollecting what Christmas is all about. The scenes of Georgetown, Colorado were magnificent and make one want to move there immediately. As I s... | 1 |
17,697 | [
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] | 158 | 192 | Just watched it on the Hallmark Channel. I was surprised to John Denver! This movie was full of clichés, but that is to be expected (a made for TV Christmas movie- come on!) The acting is as good as any other '80's made for TV movie. The story is, as I said before, predictable and cliché, but still good. If you are loo... | 1 |
17,698 | [
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] | 153 | 164 | This movie is my families favorite Christmas movie because it is a beautiful picture of what Christmas is really all about. These days living in a big city which I hate, I love to watch movies about the life I've always dreamed of having. The town that this movie is set in is my dream come true for the life I've always... | 1 |
17,699 | [
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] | 391 | 480 | The joy and tragedy of the Christmas Season lies in the fact that it mostly revolves around family. That is why some people call it "the children's holiday." As we age, natural attrition and progress removes the people and the things that gave us our special memories. John Denver, in one of his sweetest roles, plays Ge... | 1 |
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