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420,849 | 2,542,703 | 36,025 | 4 | I Dood It - Grammar and Picture Both Bad | Only the musical number by the fabulous Dorsey band as well as the playing of Ms . Scott and wonderful singing by Lena Horne are about the only 2 saving graces of this rather silly film . The trouble here is the far too many sub-plots . We have Red Skelton pursuing entertainer Eleanor Powell . She marries him when she ... |
421,347 | 2,542,703 | 311,110 | 4 | Cliché Ending Spoils the Runs in this Family | A wealthy family is torn apart by being dysfunctional . Yes , it happens in the best of families . Kirk and Michael Douglas are the Brombergs-father and son , who are constantly bickering . As in real life , Kirk is the stroke victim and his wife is on dialysis . His oldest grandson is using drugs and talks like he bel... |
420,731 | 2,542,703 | 339,291 | 4 | Lemony Snicket's Stupidity in Session | I'll give credit for the special effects but that's about it . This farce deals with 3 children orphaned when their parents die in a mysterious fire . This catapults them into an inane adventure where their distant relative , Count Olaf ( Jim Carrey ) takes charge of them . Of course , with that name , Olaf is evil . H... |
421,489 | 2,542,703 | 38,355 | 4 | The Big Sleep-Yawning All the Way | Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacalle teamed to make 4 films together in their illustrious careers . Guess what ? Other than 1948's " Key Largo , " the other 3 were first class stinkers and " The Big Sleep " is absolutely no exception . To say that the plot is muddled and confusing is to put it mildly . The guys drop like... |
420,960 | 2,542,703 | 121,766 | 4 | The Writers took Revenge on Us | Believe my title . Good gone bad , real bad is the crux of this film . Better to have left the previous Star War episodes stand in final tribute to those films . Luke Skywalker goes evil ! Mercy me . With that sweet face turning disturbed , what were the writers really thinking of ? Natalie Portman's performance here i... |
420,663 | 2,542,703 | 171,227 | 5 | Diplomatic Siege - Needs More than Diplomacy | The film goes awry towards the middle of it . It starts off quite well when the U . S . embassy in Bucharest , Romania is taken hostage by Serbian terrorists . We have the usual threats and intimidation . We have the usual demands but things go way out of control when the person the terrorists are negotiating for is ki... |
421,155 | 2,542,703 | 1,042,877 | 5 | Cadillac Records Doesn't Exactly Ride the High Country | The music is fascinating but it's still the same old story in movie land . A group of guys make it big in the record industry in the 1950s and mayhem results . Yes , it's the old story of what success can lead to . Adrien Brody has the lead role of Len Chess , a Jewish guy whose parents came from Poland . The last time... |
421,364 | 2,542,703 | 372,784 | 5 | To Me , this Batman Ends | I did not like this film as there is no comical relationship as we saw in the television shows . Tom Wilkinson gives a wonderful performance as a mobster . His Brooklyn accent is memorable . The beginning of the film was rather boring as we get into the story . Nonetheless , the tragic death of our hero's parents was v... |
421,565 | 2,542,703 | 219,965 | 5 | Bandits-Crime Does Pay But Never So Nicely | Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thornton teamed up as bank robbers in this 2001 farce . Thornton plays an intellectual hypochondriac who nonetheless would kill if he had to . Willis is a care-free guy . After escaping from an Oregon prison , the two go on quite a spree , where they invade the homes of bank officials and sta... |
420,886 | 2,542,703 | 43,992 | 5 | Sante Fe - Westward Slow | Wonderful premise where 4 brothers , after the civil war , go different directions with the elder brother , Randolph Scott , working for the railroad and the other 3 wind up as bank robbers . The film becomes muddled as you really don't understand the conflict between the various factions within the railroad . You also... |
420,339 | 2,542,703 | 382,625 | 5 | DaVinci Code Hard to Decipher This One | Even though I did not read the book , I am not at all surprised why Catholic groups are outraged by this film . Fiction or not , it is really insulting to Catholic tenet . Tom Hanks is really miscast in the lead here . A better choice would have been Ralph Fiennes . The acting in this film is stolen by Ian McCellan , w... |
421,379 | 2,542,703 | 1,243,939 | 5 | Kissels Fizzles - The Two Mr . Kissels | The film rapidly goes down in quality despite the interesting subject matter and some very good acting here . The story again relates to the time old adage that money is the root of all evil . The Kissel Brothers seemed to have had in made with their propensity for making money . Their lives took a turbulent path becau... |
421,486 | 2,542,703 | 864,761 | 5 | Duchess Needs More Duking Out | Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes star in this period peace depicting the superiority of the male , who it is shown can immerse himself with other women openly but yet find it revolting when his wife basically does the same thing . No doubt about it . Ralph Fiennes is getting older . This is more of a supporting role f... |
421,211 | 2,542,703 | 398,712 | 5 | Assault on An Audience | Overly violent thriller about a situation where the police are the villains in the midst of a Detroit snowstorm . Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne star in this mess , as the former is a gangster involved with too many on the force on the take . Problem is that Brendan O'Byrne wants even more and Fishburne kills one o... |
421,455 | 2,542,703 | 35,082 | 5 | Moontide Reaches A Rip Tide | Rather routine story of a dock worker who finds love with a hash slinger . The dull , somber mood is reflective of the period shown here . Ida Lupino is excellent , as usual , because she plays the role that she was so well suited to play in films - the unhappy , vulnerable woman , who finds love and then tragedy . As ... |
420,998 | 2,542,703 | 41,967 | 5 | Tokyo Joe - Not the Same Old Story | This certainly was not one of Humphrey Bogart's best films ? Why ? There is very little action in it . When the action does occur , it is so quickly resolved . The end is predictable because after all , Florence Marly ( Trina ) can't have two husbands . What did the Baron really want to smuggle in ? Just some Communist... |
420,744 | 2,542,703 | 431,308 | 5 | P . S . I Love You-Crying Tomorrow is Not A Romantic Comedy | Somewhat interesting film which was falsely labeled as a romantic comedy . When her seemingly happy marriage ends with the death of her husband , a woman begins receiving letters from him . Of course , you wonder where the letters are being sent from . This is not one of those eerie beyond the graves film . We've come ... |
421,013 | 2,542,703 | 47,679 | 5 | Witness to Murder - Bringing in Gaslight Anyone ? | Barbara Stanwyck witnesses a murder and the culprit , played by the usually sinister George Sanders , is trying to drive her insane after this event . Gary Merrill is the detective who tries to sort this all out while he is falling for Cheryl ( Barbara ) . The flaw here is in the writing . Sanders , as Mr . Richter , s... |
420,291 | 2,542,703 | 457,433 | 5 | The Imperfection of Perfect Stranger | Something goes terribly awry in this film . Bruce Willis seems to have really aged in this film . He could have played the father of Halle Berry . He's ruthless , cunning and a real stinker , but what's really going on with him , if anything . There is a surprising excellent supporting performance by Giovanni Ribisi . ... |
420,489 | 2,542,703 | 38,991 | 5 | The Stranger-Nazi in the Neighborhood is Tedious At Best | Edward G . Robinson , as the suspicious inspector , turns in a solid performance in an otherwise mediocre film . Orson Welles , who directed this , showed himself to be a master of evil . The problem here was that the plot was too obvious . Even a sweet , vulnerable Loretta Young can't do very much here . That ending s... |
421,414 | 2,542,703 | 422,720 | 5 | Sophia Coppola Bombs Again-Marie Antoinette-A Bore | Kirsten Dunst is so stilted in the title role . She totally lacks the finesse of the 1938 Norma Shearer masterpiece . Jason Schwartzman seems awkward for the part of King Louis , which was so memorably created by Robert Morley in the ' 38 film . If you snapped your finger , the revolution would have passed you by . You... |
420,891 | 2,542,703 | 353,314 | 5 | Code 11-14 Needs Zip Code for Faster Action | 7 women have been murdered by a serial killer and when it appears that the killer is in Australia , the FBI agent goes with his family down under to see what is going on . It is on their way back from Australia that the mayhem really begins . It seems that the killer is on board . He has placed one passenger in a seclu... |
420,366 | 2,542,703 | 32,286 | 5 | Brother Rat & A Baby - The Prequel Was Better | The original 1938 version dealt with the escapades of the Virginia military cadets . Now , they have graduated in this 1940 version and they're still up to their necks in all sorts of chicanery . With the exception of Henry O'Neill , all the main players of the original version repeated their roles 2 years later . Perh... |
420,695 | 2,542,703 | 398,375 | 5 | Rumor Has It How this Film Deteriorates | This picture begins with a funny premise . A woman , attending her sister's wedding , discovers that her mother was Mrs . Robinson from " The Graduate . " Kevin Costner is the guy who had the affair with the mother who is now deceased as well as the grandma Shirley MacLaine . MacLaine seems to be in a new career mold a... |
421,050 | 2,542,703 | 1,010,048 | 5 | Slum Dog Millionaire - May Earn A Place in the Trash Dump | What's all the excitement generated by this 2008 film ? In the old days of the 1950s , this picture would be nothing more than a grade B film and everyone knows that . Will this film join AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS , AN American IN Paris and UNFORGIVEN as well as Shakespeare IN LOVE and go on to win a much undeserved ... |
420,508 | 2,542,703 | 37,135 | 5 | None But the Lonely Heart - A Desperate Bore | Am one of the very few who found this to be a dull , moody piece . The somber tone reflected here is just overbearing . Ethel Barrymore gave finer performances than this Oscar-winning performance . How did a woman dying of cancer get involved with pick-pockets to begin with ? Is it because of Mrs . Mott's illness that ... |
420,534 | 2,542,703 | 32,823 | 5 | There is Music in My Heart But Not Much Else | Rita Hayworth stars in a film that would have been better served by having Ginger Rogers in it . Rita misses the boat and therefore an opportunity to wed wealthy boyfriend Alan Mowbray who has a contentious butler , played by the usual witty Eric Blore . In a taxi-cab mishap , she meets up with Tony Martin , who is abo... |
421,286 | 2,542,703 | 56,671 | 5 | Please Cross the Street to Avoid " Walk on Wild Side " | Barbara Stanwyck showed her age as the tormented head of a Baton Rouge brothel in this 1962 film . Laurence Harvey portrays Dov Linkhorn , a man looking for his love , Capucine , who really gives the film's only good performance . Anne Baxter is wasted as a Mexican owner of a restaurant . Her accent is as phony as this... |
421,485 | 2,542,703 | 960,144 | 5 | Don't Mess With this Mishugana | This potentially hilarious film goes down rapidly in quality . The ironic thing here is that when the message of toleration between Arabs and Israelis is presented , the film comes apart . As the Israeli counter-terrorist expert , an Israeli superman , Adam Sandler , with an authentic Israeli accent , is hilarious . Ac... |
420,971 | 2,542,703 | 407,095 | 5 | Our Very Own Has Too Many Plots and Sub-Plots | A story taking place in Shelbyville , Tennessee , this is the film " Our Very Own . " It's the usual coming of age film with teenagers growing up and doing some silly things along the way . The two bright stars in the film are Keith Carradine and Alison Janney , both of whom give splendid performances as dysfunctional ... |
420,919 | 2,542,703 | 433,649 | 5 | Thicker Than Water - Your Blood Will Not Exactly Boil Over | Routine movie fanfare where Melissa Gilbert finds out that her late erudite judge father was previously wed to a rodeo queen . The latter let him go because she saw greatness in his future . If she felt like this , why did she marry him to begin with ? Unbeknown to the future , he had a daughter with this woman . She i... |
421,098 | 2,542,703 | 32,410 | 5 | Down Argentina Way - Horse Forioso But Film So-So | The singing and dancing are great . The plot is weak here with Argentinian , Don Ameche , with an authentic Spanish accent , romances Bette Grable . For some foolish reason , Ameche's father , an engaging Henry Stephenson , has it in for the Crawford family for an incident that took place long ago between him and Grabl... |
420,812 | 2,542,703 | 66,471 | 5 | Too Late the Hero - Cliff Robertson's Journey to Demise | As one who could speak Japanese , Cliff Robertson thought that he could ride out World War 11 sunning himself on a beach . His sunning ends when he is called to go on a dangerous mission to the New Hebrides . There he will encounter danger that he never imagined along with a British crew at each other's throat . The go... |
421,012 | 2,542,703 | 50,271 | 5 | Crime of Passion - Too Convenient for Words | One day Barbara Stanwyck is a hot San Francisco columnist who marries Sterling Hayden after an extremely brief romance . How the two click to begin with still remains a mystery to me . Living with Hayden , her policeman husband in L . A . , Barbara soon realizes that her new husband lacks ambition . All he is intereste... |
421,107 | 2,542,703 | 866,439 | 5 | Made of Honor is Made Up of the Usual | Fair film with Patrick Dempsey becoming an ever-more screen Lothario , this time with Michelle Monaghan as his co-star . Dempsey plays a bed-hopping Manhattan guy who misses a chance to wed his true love when she meets a perfect Scotish gentleman while in Scotland . The film deals how Dempsey plans to get her back . He... |
421,425 | 2,542,703 | 58,981 | 5 | Boeing , Boeing Gone | How long can you allow Tony Curtis , to play a swinging bachelor in Paris attempting to juggle his charade of having 3 airline stewardesses as his fiances at one time ? You know from the very beginning that the fireworks will have to start once a takeoff will have to be canceled and the stewardesses will all converge o... |
420,500 | 2,542,703 | 770,752 | 5 | Fool's Gold - Fools March In | Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson provide perfect chemistry in this film . Recently divorced , these divers are pursuing a treasure from old Spain which is supposedly a new queen's dowry . Quite far-fetched to say the least . Donald Sutherland plays an odd bit character . His British accent is a bit too thick for his... |
420,814 | 2,542,703 | 427,229 | 5 | Failure to Launch Does Just That | This inane film gives us the idea that Tripp , played by a 35 year old guy named Matthew McConaughey still lives home with his parents . The guy is a swinging bachelor , not necessarily in the Frank Sinatra mode , but his life is far from bad . Each time the girl gets too serious , Tripp brings them home to see his par... |
420,775 | 2,542,703 | 52,391 | 5 | The Whole Truth - George Sanders at It Again ! | This film is quite similar to the George Sanders flick of 1954 , " Witness to Murder . " Again , Sanders is a murderer who is trying to drive everyone batty . This time , his victim is Stewart Granger , who he nicely frames for the killing of his Italian actress wife . The beginning scenes show this wife as a screaming... |
420,863 | 2,542,703 | 470,732 | 5 | Bernard and Doris-They're Not Exactly Bonnie and Clyde | A tale of two losers , one who happens to be the billionaire Doris Duke . With all her money , it is shown that the latter can't bring happiness . Duke lives in a closed-existent world and is soon attracted to her butler played by Ralph Fiennes . The scene with the two celebrating her birthday is ridiculous . Fiennes s... |
420,627 | 2,542,703 | 32,021 | 5 | They Made Her A Spy is Routine Espionage | You didn't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the Allan Hale part is one of being a counter spy , just like the lead role of Sally Eilers . The film is basically a routine one where Eilers , following the tragic death of her military brother due to espionage , decides to join and fight spying by herself . Th... |
421,561 | 2,542,703 | 449,089 | 5 | RV - It's Still the Same Old Story | Robin Williams is in true form in this 2006 comedy . The problem with this film is that we have seen it so many times before as Chevy Chase vehicles for his vacation pictures . It's basically a story of a family not close , who go on a Colorado trip and during the trip , evolve into a family that realizes the value of ... |
420,496 | 2,542,703 | 116,213 | 5 | Fraser's Got the Action . . . But the Writing ? | Action packed thriller with Arnold S . , James Caan and Vanessa Williams . That CIA is always into something . Go know that an assistant secretary of state is working with some crooked CIA agents to sell ammunition to terrorists . What are they trying to create here ? As is the case with most of these films , it's the ... |
420,982 | 2,542,703 | 360,717 | 5 | King Kong is Jurassic Park Revisited | Critics say that Adrien Brody was miscast in the lead . No , he wasn't . He was one lucky guy to have gotten the part in " The Pianist " and his Oscar just came along . What did the critics want him to do-play Johnny W . in a remake of " Tarzan . " By the way , if Brody's nose gets any longer , he will look like Pinnoc... |
421,074 | 2,542,703 | 35,829 | 5 | DuBarry Was A Lady - When the 2 Redheads Collide | Mild fanfare with Red Skelton , Lucille Ball and Gene Kelly in this farce about what's going on at a local nightclub . Lucy is Lucy and Red does his usual nonsense . Kelly tries to play it straight but isn't given the substantial material needed . Zero Mostel , young and chubby looking , is along for the ride as a seer... |
420,426 | 2,542,703 | 435,705 | 5 | Ends Before We Really Want to See What Comes Next | High packed action film where the CIA wishes to thwart a terrorist plot by using a magician , Nicholas Cage , who has the power to see what is going to happen in the future . The problem with the film is that it goes down in quality rather rapidly once the chase scenes start . We see cars crashing and all sorts of wood... |
421,250 | 2,542,703 | 51,055 | 5 | Tarnished Angels A Disappointement After Written On Wind | Douglas Sirk , a master director , again teamed that fabulous trio from " Written on the Wind , " Dorothy Malone , Robert Stack and Rock Hudson . The film was " The Tarnished Angels , " which deals with a barnstorming airplane-acrobatic team of the depression era . The film is shot in black and white to convey the mood... |
421,071 | 2,542,703 | 109,402 | 5 | The Chase - A Comical Patti Hearst Flick ? | Cliché filled film where a real loser taking a wealthy girl hostage and the two of them in a memorable chase with the police in hot pursuit . Martin Sheen is in top form as the innocent convicted felon on the lamb . The story follows the usual tradition of the girl becoming hysterical and gradually finding love with he... |
420,424 | 2,542,703 | 60,862 | 5 | The Professionals-The Film is Anything But | Your typical western where tycoon Ralph Bellamy offers lots of money to Lee Marvin , Robert Ryan and eventually Burt Lancaster to go into Mexico and retrieve his wife ( Claudia Cardinale ) who supposedly has been kidnapped . The film encounters our three ex-Mexican revolutionary fighters on their way back to Mexico . T... |
421,025 | 2,542,703 | 33,664 | 5 | Girl-Guy-Gob - | Lucille Ball was much more restrained in this 1941 comedy with Edmond O'Brien and George Murphy . O'Brien appears so young and dashing in this film . He plays an upper class businessman who meets and finds love with secretary Ball . Murphy plays her sailor boyfriend . To me , the biggest question in the film was who wo... |
421,180 | 2,542,703 | 50,993 | 5 | Something of Value Really Isn't | This Rock Hudson , Dana Wynter film deals with the Mau-Mau uprising in Kenya in 1952 . At least , it attempts to . As the wife , Wynter is completely wasted her . She has few lines to convey . Yes , a racist bigot slapped Sidney Poitier several years before the uprising . During the rebellion , the man's wife is killed... |
421,144 | 2,542,703 | 43,278 | 5 | Americans Stay Home , Please | When " An American in Paris " won the coveted Oscar in 1951 as best picture , much controversy was generated . The dissatisfaction centered around the fact that the film had a very thin plot and I'm being kind at that . Yes , there was entertainment there , but in a year of " A Streetcar Named Desire " and " A Place in... |
421,320 | 2,542,703 | 41,368 | 5 | File on Thelma Jordon - Put File Away | Barbara Stanwyck continues her portrayal of ruthless women getting men orbited around her and invariably in her schemes to commit murder . Naturally , she is always falling in love with the guy or vice versa . There are so many similarities here to the 1944 Stanwyck classic " Double Indemnity . " This was a far better ... |
420,837 | 2,542,703 | 115,984 | 5 | Crossroads - No Eye for an Eye Here | This film would be considered outstanding by the liberals out there . After losing his wife and daughter in a tragic car accident brought on by drag racing , a man demands justice through our judicial system . As it appears that he will get justice , he changes his tune when the culprit shows remorse . What then occurs... |
421,355 | 2,542,703 | 338,556 | 5 | Wicked Minds-Whose Wicked Mind thought this One Up ? | Too many plot twists in this 2002 thriller . The All American Guy returns home after touring Europe . He has graduated from Harvard but sure does not act like a Harvard graduate . His verbally and mentally abusive father has remarried . The son is bitter by the fact that the father showed no attention to his ex-wife du... |
421,010 | 2,542,703 | 435,623 | 5 | This Conversation is Endless | Aaron Eckhardt and Helena Bonham-Carter provide the right chemistry as people who meet at the wedding of his sister and begin a night of passion . True is that they had met years before . As the evening goes on , we find out about their previous relationship and marriages . The problem here is that the film is way too ... |
421,610 | 2,542,703 | 30,044 | 5 | Dawn Patrol-It's Honor and Duty Above All | Flying aces go out on World War 1 missions , while they know that many of them shall not return , especially the younger inexperienced pilots . Basil Rathbone is the squadron leader who appears to be sadistic in handing out the assignments . David Niven and Errol Flynn are at his throat regarding this . To get even wit... |
421,160 | 2,542,703 | 1,068,649 | 5 | I've Loved You for So Long Packs No Emotional Wallop | Disappointing film dealing with a woman trying to readjust to society after being released from prison after 15 years . Her crime : She killed her son . Christin Scott Thomas is obviously playing an extremely depressed part in this film . The film is in French with English subtitles . A problem here is that it isn't un... |
421,617 | 2,542,703 | 65,797 | 5 | Great White Hope-Disappointing Racist Film | James Earl Jones's acting was superb and he certainly deserved his Oscar nomination for best actor . Jane Alexander provided a moody portrait of the white Australian woman who loved him deeply but could not cope with him with eventual tragedy occurring for her . Her Oscar nomination for best actress should have been in... |
421,078 | 2,542,703 | 52,832 | 5 | The Fugitive Kind - 4 Oscar Winners Can't Help Tennessee Williams | The Fugitive Kind stars 4 Oscar winners . By the time the moved came out , Joanne Woodward , Marlon Brando and Anna Magnani had already won . Maureen Stapleton would win in the supporting actress category 22 years later . Nonetheless , with these great thespians plus an added excellent performance by Victor Jory , th... |
420,521 | 2,542,703 | 58,557 | 5 | Seance on A Wet Afternoon-Soak it Up | Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough gave fine performances in this eerie film about a dysfunctional couple , she is a seer , who meticulously plan a kidnapping . Miss Stanley is the epitome of evil . She evokes eerie images each time she is on the screen . Soft spoken and sinister , Kim Stanley gave a masterful perfor... |
420,450 | 2,542,703 | 31,756 | 5 | On Your Toes is Off the Mark and is Slaughtered | Once again Zorina proved that she was not the person for being Maria in " For Whom the Bell Tolls . " Nice to have seen what the late Donald O'Connor looked like as a boy . I knew it was him and was just waiting for cast confirmation at the end of the film . The film would have been better had James Gleason and Queenie... |
420,774 | 2,542,703 | 31,754 | 5 | On Borrowed Time Needs Life Support | Not even the elements of a future " Death Takes A Holiday " and " Harvey " can save this piece . Why ? The film is pretty morbid when you think about it . Lionel Barrymore , that usual irascible character , does display a heart here but the ending where Death shows that it still has the upper hand is not very pleasant ... |
421,416 | 2,542,703 | 441,733 | 5 | Annie's Point Comes to a Fork Road | Annie ( Bette White ) wants to disperse her husband's ashes at a locale in California that they had named Annie's Point . Annie needs a bypass immediately and she wants to send out the ashes on her 50th wedding anniversary . The plot is seemingly ridiculous and White recruits her song-loving granddaughter to accompany ... |
420,929 | 2,542,703 | 40,983 | 5 | Nice Film Spoiled By Weak Ending | You Were Meant for Me has all the elements of a very nice film . We have a dance band and Jeanne Craine falling for and marrying band leader Dan Dailey over night . All goes well until the stock market crashes in 1929 and the band is forced to disband . Dailey and Jeanne move back with her parents , Percy Kilbride , ... |
421,005 | 2,542,703 | 414,387 | 5 | Pride and Prejudice-Pardon My Bias | Jane Austen's novel continues to be a bore when it's transferred to the screen . Despite the great 1940 cast of Greer Garson and Edna Mae Oliver , the film didn't exactly catch fire and the same is true for this 2005 remake . Elizabeth is a highly intelligent girl . Her parents are played well by Donald Sutherland and ... |
421,435 | 2,542,703 | 452,703 | 5 | Cliché Character and Plot Mar Walkout - Practice the Title | Chicanos have it bad in the Los Angeles school system . Sorry to hear that . How about working and studying hard ? Is that such a novelty ? After all , one of the leaders is a Chicano teacher . He is militant although he should be reminded that he went through the system to become a teacher . The police are portrayed w... |
420,497 | 2,542,703 | 50,814 | 5 | Pajama Game-This Norma Rae Musical Just Doesn't Work | While the music and dancing are wonderful , the story is really off the wall . Who could believe that workers want just 7 cents more ? Anyone ever hear about an hourly wage increase ? Ludicrous . This is not one Doris Day's best performances . She needed to more than challenged here . That challenge does not come about... |
420,470 | 2,542,703 | 1,338,590 | 5 | Expecting A Miracle-Mom , Apple Pie , and You Too Can Become Pregnant , Just Believe 12 | Everyone is so nice . The town's people of a small Mexican town are so kind and friendly . No one argues . Everyone lives so happily in poverty . The boss is so nice . When a couple's marriage is strained due to the inability to conceive a child , the husband's boss lets him get off from work for a week to use his time... |
420,729 | 2,542,703 | 33,467 | 5 | Citizen Kane-Forever Seeking Rosebud | Perhaps , I am missing something here but what's the big fuss regarding " Citizen Kane ? " A masterpiece , no way ! In 1941 the motion picture academy selected " How Green Was My Valley " as the best picture of the year and this is one person who wholeheartedly agreed with the academy's decision . This movie starring O... |
420,776 | 2,542,703 | 76,636 | 5 | Roller-coaster-Get Ready for A See-Saw Ride | Disaster strikes at one amusement park followed by another . It's not mechanical failure but an off-the-wall young fellow ( Timothy Bottoms ) who creates the mayhem in an attempt to extort money from the various amusement park chain owners . Where will he strike next becomes the theme of the film . George Segal plays t... |
421,465 | 2,542,703 | 33,436 | 5 | Buck Privates in A Country Headed to War | Predictable cute farce about life in the army . To avoid capture by the police , Abbott and Costello unintentionally join the army . Lee Bowman plays a play-boy who is too busy with the women to be part of this man's army . The Andrews Sisters belt out their familiar 1940 songs . The boys are zany and generally a good ... |
420,889 | 2,542,703 | 364,961 | 5 | Assassination of Richard Nixon - Jack Bick is Nixon ? | The film is related to the fact that a loser , well played by Sean Penn , equates himself with Richard Nixon . The only problem here is that Nixon gets all the breaks and seems to get away with everything . Naturally , the tragedy ensues before Nixon's resignation . Granted that Penn delivers a terrific performance as ... |
420,381 | 2,542,703 | 104,804 | 5 | Man Trouble - More than Male Trouble Here | Bob Rafelson , who directed Jack Nicholson in " 5 Easy Pieces , " has the honors of directing him in this comedy , which unfortunately falls flat . Nicholson co-stars with Ellen Barkin . Beverly D'Angelo co-stars as well , but Miss D'Angelo can't get a good role since " Coal Miner's Daughter . " Nicholson is Harry Blis... |
420,535 | 2,542,703 | 331,933 | 5 | Man of the House Closes the Door | Another routine film where Texas cheerleaders witness a murder and are then protected by Marshal Tommy Lee Jones . Jones shows a thick Texan accent and is aging . The guy looks like he has not had a good night sleep in a while . Naturally , while they are confined , the girls learn a lot from Jones and he in return lea... |
420,942 | 2,542,703 | 91,983 | 5 | Something Wild and Fiercely Crazy | The very talented Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith star in this 1986 comedy which takes a sharp turn to drama past the middle of the film . On a lark , a brunette Griffith hijacks Daniels into her car for a weekend of mayhem . There is a visit to her mother and her high school reunion , where she passes off Daniels , ... |
420,830 | 2,542,703 | 39,776 | 5 | Road to Rio - They Speak Portuguese in Brazil ! | Perhaps , that's what this film needed , more Portuguese being spoken . As is , it left a lot to be desired . Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are caught up in their all too familiar antics , this time fleeing to Brazil , after they've been accused of starting an accidental fire in a circus . Meeting up with Dorothy Lamour is ... |
420,554 | 2,542,703 | 783,233 | 5 | Thou Shall Atone For Your Sins , How About this Picture ? | A young girl's lie forever alters the destiny of her sister and the latter's boy friend . This is what we are told in the advertising for the best picture nominee of 2007 - " Atonement . " The director should atone for giving us this kind of picture . We are dealing with nothing more than a little brat who accused her ... |
421,577 | 2,542,703 | 410,400 | 5 | On A Clear Day - Cloud this up to Me | An Irish couple have secrets after years of marriage . She is aspiring to pass a test to drive a bus and he wants to swim the English Channel . It takes nearly the entire movie to explain that the family had a swimming tragedy years before . Brenda Blethyn , so wonderful in " Secrets and Lies , " and " Little Voice " i... |
420,372 | 2,542,703 | 115,759 | 5 | Broken Arrow is Broken-Spirited | John Travolta smokes it up as a psycho-army man with nuclear weapons within his cache in this 1996 routine nonsense . Didn't Travolta swear off cigarettes after his phenomenal performance in 1977's " Saturday Night Fever ? " Christian Slater co-stars as his fellow aviator taken in by Travolta's fiendish plot to steal n... |
421,304 | 2,542,703 | 486,506 | 5 | Definition of Depressing Fits this Picture | Be prepared to bring a box of tissues to this heartbreaking film . A soldier returns home from World War 11 to his North Carolina home . His 17 year old brother is in prison for a crime which is not described . When our soldier , played by Chris Klein , named Noah , asks for leniency , he is denied this . On top of all... |
421,086 | 2,542,703 | 379,725 | 5 | Capote : Boring Clunker | Philip Seymour Hoffman , ordinarily a tremendous actor , is downright dull in this film regarding Truman Capote's research for " In Cold Blood . " In several ways the film reminded me of the 1951 classic " A Place in the Sun . " While violence and death are occurring , we sing interactions among the wealthy in high soc... |
421,275 | 2,542,703 | 106,226 | 5 | The Age of Innocence is Anything But | Very disappointing film depicting upper class society in 1875 New York . The performances are incredibly bad . Michelle Pfeiffer is woefully miscast as the Princess Olenska . Princess ? She sounds like she comes from a Brooklyn tenement . She is churlish at best and reminds me of Marilyn Monroe in " Some Like it Hot . ... |
421,306 | 2,542,703 | 164,211 | 5 | The Ultimate Outrage | Richard Grieco gives a convincing performance as quite a sick character in this television movie . With quite a record , Grieco marries an unsuspecting girl and when she wants a baby so badly , he concocts quite a plot to steal one , and get plenty of loot for himself in the process . This leads to an unbelievable trag... |
421,396 | 2,542,703 | 430,105 | 5 | 4 Brothers - Where's the Beef ? | The plot of this potentially excellent movie is short-circuited by the writing . Why did the gang go after Mrs . Mercer like that ? The woman was shot down like an animal . The wonderful Mrs . Mercer , who took in 4 youths that no one ever wanted comes to an end like this . You have to wonder . The four adopted sons re... |
421,381 | 2,542,703 | 40,109 | 5 | Reteaming of Boyer and Bergman Doesn't Really Work-Arch of Triumph | Even the re-teaming of Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in this 1948 film doesn't help it very much . At least , unlike the 1985 version , Paris is not that lugubrious . While war is about to break out in September , 1939 , Paris is still very much a city of lights , and much is happening in the outdoor cafés . The sto... |
421,020 | 2,542,703 | 289,390 | 5 | The Pilot's Wife Up Up and Too Far Away | Interesting story of a plane crash with terrorist foundation . Unfortunately , too much else is put into the script . John Heard portrays the airline pilot who apparently led quite a secret life . Christine Lahti does quite well as the wife who finds out plenty when her husband and 104 others are killed in a plane cras... |
421,163 | 2,542,703 | 486,420 | 5 | Love's Long Journey - It's Still the Same Old Story | Cliché ridden film with a young couple setting out to settle in the west . They're religious and Missy hasn't told her husband that she is with child . He hires ranch hands who run the gamut from different groups . Of course , there is a menacing trio who keep putting on scarfs by their faces as they go along robbing a... |
420,324 | 2,542,703 | 869,099 | 5 | Lies And Crimes Shoot Out in Modern Small Doesn't Cut It | Eddie , the cop , takes a bullet in his house and his widowed math teacher moves to the house that he had built . It looks like Ed was a dirty cop and when his widow moves , she finds the small town in filled with people on drugs " borrowing " prescriptions from others . Eddie's friend and fellow cop looks suspicious i... |
421,334 | 2,542,703 | 38,107 | 5 | The Southerner - I Wish I Weren't in the Land of Cotton | A depressing film detailing a family's struggle against the elements of nature . The film marked a change of pace for the usual suave , devious Zachary Scott . The same year as this picture , he was absolutely memorable as Monty Berrigan , Joan Crawford's n'eer-do-well second husband in the fabulous " Mildred Pierce . ... |
421,045 | 2,542,703 | 963,178 | 5 | Internation Has Many Local Problems | This could have been a taut thriller , especially with the subject matter of a bank involved in the selling of missiles to Iran . Instead , it takes us a while to get to know this and it's like plodding through the film to get the necessary information . Clive Owen , a wonderful actor , is effective as the interpol age... |
420,957 | 2,542,703 | 48,705 | 5 | Don't Fall for A Tender Trap | Disappointing inane farce with an all-star cast . Frank Sinatra plays his usual swinging self . As a theatrical agent , he has a supply of women around including Lola Albright and Carolyn Jones . Both are completely wasted here . Jones was much better , when she starred 4 years later with Sinatra , in 1959's A Hole in ... |
420,447 | 2,542,703 | 481,141 | 5 | I Have Reservations About No Reservations | We've seen this one before . A precocious child becomes withdrawn and sullen when her mother is killed in an auto accident . She goes to live with a relative , in this case her aunt and causes the life of the latter to chase drastically with romance ensuing . Abigail Breslin is that precocious child . Catherine Zeta Jo... |
421,043 | 2,542,703 | 39,941 | 5 | Unsuspected - I Suspect Misery Here | Mediocre to average film showcasing the talent of Claude Rains . The latter has never been more bizarre than in this film . In it , he plays a famous raconteur , artist , man of the arts , writer , and nut Grandison . He is better known as Grandy . When Grandy is not airing his chilling stories on the radio , he is kil... |
420,614 | 2,542,703 | 221,069 | 5 | Chasing Sleep A Real Pill | Too bad that Jeff Daniels , an excellent actor , can't get better parts . He showed so much promise as Shirley MacLaine's son-in-law in " Terms of Endearment . " Come on , Hollywood . You can do better than this for Mr . Daniels . Daniels is a college professor here who finds that his wife , a music teacher , is missin... |
420,825 | 2,542,703 | 411,061 | 5 | 88 Minutes Might Really Be A Class Act | It isn't as bas as some people are saying . It's not an Oscar winner but Slumdog Millionaire wasn't either . Al Pacino , as always , delivers a good performance , this time as a forensic psychiatrist caught up in murder and forced to relive the brutal slaying of his younger sister years before . The title has something... |
420,465 | 2,542,703 | 62,407 | 5 | Two For the Road-One Heck of a Seesaw Battle Going Nowhere | Wonderful memories of a young and virile Albert Finney and the late Audrey Hepburn as well . This is one film where the use of flashbacks does not work . If anything , it makes for one confusing film about a couple constantly on the road , the happy times and unhappy ones of their marriage . The best part of the film i... |
421,112 | 2,542,703 | 467,200 | 5 | The Other Boleyn Girl is Sex and the Married King | History was quite never like this . The rapid writing and sequence of events basically spoils the picture . Women come and go , get pregnant , get convicted and some pay the ultimate price too ! The acting is quite good , especially by Ana Torrent as Catherine of Aragon . O William , you should have stuck by this Spani... |
421,423 | 2,542,703 | 107,554 | 5 | This Menace to Society is Real but Cliché Ridden | The film is a very good one but is filled with clichés . We are dealing with extremely violent people , many of whom regard life with a depraved indifference . If ever there were an argument related to genetics vs . environment to determine how we act , the latter would win overwhelmingly after seeing such a brutal fil... |
420,909 | 2,542,703 | 758,766 | 5 | Music & Lyrics - It's Not The Sound of Music | Hugh Grant does a wonderful take off as a rock singer attempting to make a comeback . The problem is that there isn't much to go by here . As for Drew Barrymore's portrayal of Sophie Fisher , the part really requires a quirky young girl . That's another problem here as Drew's interpretation of Sophie is anything but qu... |
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