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420,430 | 2,542,703 | 469,494 | 5 | There Will Be Blood - The Blood Sure Clots in the Last 20 Minutes | I have never seen a film to deteriorate in the last 20 minutes in the way that " There Will Be Blood " does . The film has a great plot - a man who becomes very wealthy from oil drilling , and the apparent abandoning of his son who is deafened by the blast of oil being discovered . I thought that this would be the basi... |
421,536 | 2,542,703 | 839,980 | 5 | Semi Pro Comes Through for Minor Leagues | Somewhat funny Will Ferrell effort . This time around , Will stars as the head of a basketball team who is some terrific promoter . He engages in all sorts of odd eccentricities to get the fans in . The fun starts when his ABA league is going to merge with the NBA , but the latter will only take the 4 best teams . Ferr... |
420,777 | 2,542,703 | 40,331 | 5 | Every Girl Should Be Married Becomes Harried | Light comical farce with Betsy Drake desperate to wed and finds Cary Grant , a pediatrician , her perfect mate . The picture has become faded with the passage of time since Women's Lib would never go for this today in 2008 , 60 years after this film was made . Grant shows what a wonderful actor he was by moving freely ... |
420,587 | 2,542,703 | 40,270 | 5 | Dark Past - Needs Shining Light | By the first 10 minutes of the film , I thought I was going to see another creation to " The Desperate Hours . " A psychiatrist , his wife , son and guests are held hostage by a depraved killer - William Holden . The film became absolutely too preachy . In such a grave situation , a psychiatrist would not try to psycho... |
421,521 | 2,542,703 | 469,263 | 5 | Astronaut Farmer is Lost In Space | Interesting but totally unrealistic film detailing the old idea of fulfilling your dreams . In this case , Billy Bob Thornton wants to go to the moon . No one really believes what Thornton wants to do . When he goes to his child's elementary school , the teacher thanks him for dressing up in his space outfit . Despite ... |
420,779 | 2,542,703 | 44,557 | 5 | Don't Bother to Knock - Have Patience | As far as Marilyn Monroe being a gifted actress , forget it . In this dramatic film she sounds just like her in musical comedy films with that baby intonation voice . Please . Anne Bancroft , as Lyn , the lounge singer should have had the title role here . Did Bancroft actually do her own singing here ? The best perfor... |
421,233 | 2,542,703 | 51,406 | 5 | Love Conquers Witchcraft but Not This Bell , Book and Candle | With the exception of " The Eddie Duchin Story , " and " Jeanne Eagles , " Kim Novak gave another miserable performance on screen . This time it's for a playing a witch in " Bell , Book and Candle " Miss Novak was suited for the part as her eyebrows were made up appropriately . Though she is a witch in love , she shoul... |
420,797 | 2,542,703 | 52,545 | 6 | Alias Jesse James-Nothing New for Bob Hope | Funny film as Bob Hope portrays insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth . As Wendell Corey , who portrays James asks , " What's a Milford Farnsworth ? " As far as I'm concerned , Mary Young as Ma James steals this picture as the soft spoken mother of the outlaw who only wants her Jesse to eat a good breakfast before he g... |
420,904 | 2,542,703 | 59,309 | 6 | In Harm's Way : Weak Imitation of From Here to Eternity | Pearl Harbor . The sneak attack and the brave men and women who served during the attack as well as World War 11 . Sounds very familiar to the 1953 Oscar winner for best picture - " From Here to Eternity . " This is no such picture . The latter film was a deep study of the basic characters . That is sadly lacking here ... |
420,680 | 2,542,703 | 105,126 | 6 | Ridiculous Reckless Romeo | Nice to see Tracy Nelson and William R . Moses in this film . Apparently , they were married when this Perry Mason thriller was made and their marriage was probably on the rocks . Notice the pushing scenes and animosity at the beginning between the two . Of course , by the end , they're kissing , but don't be fooled by... |
420,347 | 2,542,703 | 453,467 | 6 | Deja Vu - Seen Too Much of this Already | Someone should tell the writer of this film that if Denzel comes back from the dead at the end of the film , the lady who is alive is really dead because that's exactly what happened . When a ferry boat mysteriously blows up , killing over 500 people terror is rightly expected . With terrorism on our minds constantly ,... |
421,615 | 2,542,703 | 453,486 | 6 | Falling in Love / Girl Next Door-Predictable in the Neighborhood | She returns home after breaking up with her boyfriend . He lives next door . The 2 mothers never got along . The two fall in love and after 7 months , he pops the question . The moms start talking so as to make an all-out wedding . The lovers are overwhelmed and postpone the wedding . This is so predictable . Anyone co... |
421,220 | 2,542,703 | 56,575 | 6 | That Touch of Mink Are Minks A Girl's Best Friend ? | Funny Cary Grant-Doris Day tale about a woman on the way for an interview who becomes the victim of a car splashing incident . Adviser Gig Young is given money to compensate Miss Timberlake ( Doris ) but she is so angry that she goes to tell him off but is instead swept off her feet by the extremely wealthy Grant . Aud... |
421,635 | 2,542,703 | 416,212 | 6 | The Secret Life of Bees Needs More of A Zinger | Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah give interesting performances in this film . Surprisingly , Jennifer Hudson shows promise as a caregiver beaten up when she tries to register to vote in 1964 down south . This is not played up and pretty soon Hudson's role is entirely relegated to very little here . This is a major disa... |
421,274 | 2,542,703 | 35,105 | 6 | My Sister Eileen - Family Joke | Rosalind Russell received a best actress nomination for playing Ruth Sherwood , a writer from Columbus , Ohio , who comes to the big apple with her sister Eileen . ( Janet Blair ) . Up against the winner ( Greer Garson for Mrs . Miniver ) or Bette Davis ( Now , Voyager ) , Russell had little chance in winning and she d... |
420,463 | 2,542,703 | 66,193 | 6 | The Out-of-Towners Love N . Y . or Leave it | No getting around it , Jack Lemmon was a fabulous actor and in this film , there is no exception to that statement . His trip to N . Y . along with his wife , played by the late Sandy Dennis , turns into a comedy of errors . Yes , life in the big apple was rough at the time this film was made in 1970 , but everything h... |
421,392 | 2,542,703 | 337,978 | 6 | Live Free or Die Hard-Just the Same Old Explosions | We've seen this so many times before . Disgruntled employees turning into maniacs when they're rejected by the employer . Vicious girlfriends who do kung-fu and heroes such as Bruce Willis who come to the rescue despite the fact that their own child , alienated from them , is in danger . The special effects make this m... |
421,468 | 2,542,703 | 388,500 | 6 | Beauty Shop Provides Thin Cut | Queen Latifah opens a beauty shop after her big argument with her boss . Latifah is kind , intelligent but just plain out of luck . Kevin Bacon steals the film in his role as the gay boss with a thick German accent . Wearing his blond wig , Bacon is hilarious in a performance that should have been considered for best s... |
421,603 | 2,542,703 | 43,827 | 6 | My Favorite Spy is Not One of My Favorites | Bob Hope in a dual role here . Naturally , as a comedian , he is confused with a spy and is made to serve his country to act like the former to obtain information . We get the usual Hope shtick here . " I have no friends in Washington . I vote Republican . " You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the r... |
421,008 | 2,542,703 | 28,373 | 6 | Three Smart Girls Are Anything But . . . | Ridiculous fanfare with the usually reliable Charles Winninger in the lead role as a successful banker who has been divorced for 10 years and is now set to remarry a gold-digger played listlessly by Binnie Barnes . The real schemer here is Alice Brady , who plays Barnes's mother and is perfect for the part . The film t... |
420,316 | 2,542,703 | 870,111 | 6 | Frost / Nixon is No Icing on the Cake | Disappointing film which chronicles the famous David Frost / Richard Nixon television interviews . The film is basically a dud since we already know how devious and vicious the late president was and Nixon was really suffered from a dull personality . Frank Langella , who portrays the 37th president , is very wooden in... |
421,589 | 2,542,703 | 384,736 | 6 | Gone But Not Forgotten-Better to Forget | Diabolical , convoluted story dealing with the old adage that hell hath no fury as a woman scorned . It's hard to believe that because a killer gave the whereabouts of his survivors , he is allowed to walk away free from all the turmoil that he created . After all , he did kill several people including his wife and you... |
420,418 | 2,542,703 | 35,169 | 6 | A Story Good for Its Time is Dated | Preston Sturges made the wacky comedy " Palm Beach Story " in 1942 . Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea are married and truly love each other but their problem is money , which isn't something new . She decides that they are not good for each other so she takes off for Florida , after going money from an elderly wacko w... |
420,859 | 2,542,703 | 70,640 | 6 | Is this Tiger Worth Really Being Saved ? | Jack Lemmon gave an excellent Oscar winning performance in this film about a middle-aged man , Harry Stoner , facing a mid-life crisis . With his garment business going bad , Stoner ( Lemmon ) hires an arsonist to set the place on fire so that he can collect the insurance . Jack Gilford , as his business partner , prov... |
421,186 | 2,542,703 | 455,590 | 6 | Last King of Scotland-Doctor Wasn't Needed in this House | Forest Whitaker's interpretation of the late lunatic Ugandan leader , Idi Amin , was good but not Oscar worthy . In some of the scenes Whitaker mouths the words as if he is being forced to . The person who made him up for this difficult part does deserve praise . A young Scottish man , just graduated from the Universit... |
421,136 | 2,542,703 | 412,019 | 6 | Broken Flowers - It's Not Exactly " A Letter to 3 Wives " | Remember that great film of 1949 where 3 women receive letters informing them that one woman has run off with one of their husbands ? Well , it's letter writing time again . In this one , Bill Murray gets a letter stating that he is the father of a 19 year old son who has run off . The letter forces Murray to see 4 of ... |
421,282 | 2,542,703 | 431,420 | 6 | Stone Cold - Great Cold Performance By Tom Selleck But Where's the Beef ? | As the alcoholic top cop in a small Massachusetts town , Tom Selleck gives one of his best performances in years . Having left California and his marriage , Selleck seems to settle in this cold town but a rape and serial killer soon keeps him hopping . We never fully realize why the husband-wife killing team are doing ... |
420,392 | 2,542,703 | 37,120 | 6 | National Velvet . . . They Shoot Pictures Don't They ? | Rather routine film dealing with a young girl's love of a horse and of course , how coincidental , that Velvet Brown ( such a sweet Elizabeth Taylor ) wins the horse in a raffle . The film is just that , it's too sweet for my taste . Mickey Rooney , as the stranger who enters the life of the family , first appears that... |
420,618 | 2,542,703 | 338,337 | 6 | Paycheck : When the Price Wasn't Almost Right | Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman star in this thriller about a guy who agrees to give up 3 years of his life to participate in a study . Actually , he is working on a machine that can predict the future . When the 3 years is up , Affleck discovers that he has been taken in by an elaborate scheme of up and coming actor Aaron... |
421,484 | 2,542,703 | 1,182,887 | 6 | Flirting With 40 - It's Still the Same Old Story | The older woman with a younger guy syndrome . Of course , when her husband falls for a younger girl , this is perfectly all right . This seems to be the norm in society . While on vacation , Jackie , ( Locklear ) falls for a younger guy , a surf instructor . Her friends back at home try to dissuade her from such a rela... |
421,516 | 2,542,703 | 418,773 | 6 | Get Out the Roaches | Junebug is flawed by the relatively slow pace depicting southern living . While this is the norm down south , it is becoming quite cliché in motion pictures . Embeth Davitz marries a guy from rural North Carolina . They are both art dealers and proceed to go to his hometown looking to sign a local artist to a contrac... |
420,441 | 2,542,703 | 39,409 | 6 | Gallant Journey - Jet Lag Sets In | What should have been an inspiring film , turns into a slow-moving film about an early aviator John Montgomery . To say that this guy was unlucky was to put it mildly . A very young Glenn Ford does an adequate job in portraying this man who dreamed of flying in the 1880s . Janet Blair is his co-star as the girl who lov... |
420,476 | 2,542,703 | 63,483 | 6 | Frustration and Joanne Woodward Rachel , Rachel | Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tied for the best actress Oscar in 1968 . Let's remember that Patricia Neal and Joanne Woodward were also in the running . Miss Woodward is again totally frustrated . She seemed to make a career out of it . Here , she is a sexually repressed schoolteacher who finds romance one sum... |
420,788 | 2,542,703 | 30,442 | 6 | Merrily or Silly Live We | Very familiar plot to " My Man Godfrey " regarding butlers in upper class society . Oscar nominee Billie Burke is a complete ditz in this film . As an upper class matron , she can't remember much and cracks such lines as to the chauffeur : " Do you drive ? " To a U . S . senator : " The last time I visited Washington i... |
421,592 | 2,542,703 | 396,752 | 6 | Sound of Music Meets Cinderella and Mary Poppins - Wow | A bewitching tale of a widower with seven unruly children . Does this sound familiar ? He can't even keep a governess . No , Julie Andrews doesn't enter into the picture . A magical lady ( Emma Thompson , who also wrote the screenplay ) enters . No , it's not Julie again as " Mary Poppins . " Aunt Adelaide , a memorabl... |
421,464 | 2,542,703 | 48,055 | 6 | The Far Country Only Goes So Far | James Stewart in another classic western role about a man accused of murder . The fact was that the guys he killed has stolen his cattle . Set in the Pacific Northwest , the cinematography is beautiful . Ruth Roman plays a dance hall queen . Her part is conflicted . While she loves the Stewart character , she has blind... |
420,578 | 2,542,703 | 63,462 | 6 | Comic Farce Offset By Insensitivity | The premise for " The Producers " is marvelous . Two guys get a bunch of elderly women to invest in a play and look for subject matter that will be a certain flop . As the investments have gone well over 100 % , there will be plenty of money for Max Bialystock ( a memorable Zero Mostel ) and his sidekick bookkeeper ( L... |
421,103 | 2,542,703 | 41,716 | 6 | On The Town Surges Forward | This film started off quite boring despite the marvelous talents of Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra . It got very funny with the coming of Betty Garrett and the memorable Alice Pearce as Lucy Schmeeler . Kelly was wise to take Pearce from the Broadway stage and transfer the part of Lucy that she performed there to the big... |
420,813 | 2,542,703 | 348,150 | 6 | Superman Returns With Startling News | While I realize that it's 2006 , Superman was always supposed to have a clean image . The guy has apparently become quite a swinger . He returns from Krypton and realizes that Lois Lane's son is his indeed . Didn't know the two of them had time for this . What will the Republicans say about this with their high values ... |
421,322 | 2,542,703 | 191,133 | 6 | Fighting Temptations Leads Us from Evil | This is one of Cuba Gooding's best performances in years . Mr . Gooding has been on a dry run since his Oscar win in the supporting category for Tom Cruise's famous line-Show me the money ! This is basically a fun film . Cuba Gooding , recently fired from his job , returns to Georgia for the funeral of his beloved Aunt... |
421,593 | 2,542,703 | 41,652 | 6 | No Wonder We Loved Lucy in this Preview of What Was to Come | Some funny antics are shown in this 1949 comedy with Lucille Ball and William Holden . Ball immediately showed her comedic gifts as a dimwitted secretary hired by a bookie ( Holden ) to watch over the office . Trouble is that she is the niece of a judge . Thinking that Holden is in real estate , she begins to bring pro... |
420,315 | 2,542,703 | 420,818 | 6 | Out of the Woods and Into Oblivion We Go | Does Larry Levenson of Hallmark just enjoy creating the same theme where people visit older folks and redeem themselves before the latter pass on ? We see this theme over and over in many of Levenson's productions and " Out of the Woods " is no different . When a grandson , an attorney , is sent to deliver legal papers... |
420,582 | 2,542,703 | 50,212 | 6 | Bridged too Far | This Oscar winning film of 1957 , " The Bridge on the River Kwai , " is a little too heavy handed . One of the prisoners has it right , " won't building this bridge be seen as an act of treason ? " Captured by the Japanese , Col . Nicholson and his men agree to build such a bridge . They put a tremendous effort into it... |
420,684 | 2,542,703 | 340,163 | 6 | We're All Being Held Hostage | A hostage story within another hostage taking situation is what we have here . The film starts off reminding us that even with the best hostage negotiator , dealing in a calm way with a situation , tragedy can result . Three kids , two of them real mental cases , try to hijack a car . The situation soon spins out of co... |
421,105 | 2,542,703 | 39,581 | 6 | Long Night Needs More Day Light | Eerie film showcasing an excellent chain-smoking Henry Fonda as a distraught lover who kills the eerie mad-like magician , Vincent Price , who discovers his girl-friend , Barbara Bel Geddes and begins to stalk here . The acting here is good especially by Fonda , who wears the same hat and acts in a similar fashion as h... |
421,021 | 2,542,703 | 43,476 | 6 | Double Dynamite Just Doesn't Add Up | Silly Sinatra , Jane Russell and Groucho Marx 1951 vehicle . Groucho's brothers were really missing here . Jane Russell talks in such a churlish way . She is really annoying to listen to . Her one drunken scene is funny . By the way , was it the bank owner's son who was the embezzler or was it just a wayward machine ? ... |
420,873 | 2,542,703 | 30,202 | 6 | Great Waltz Takes Some Disappointing Steps | Am one of the few critics who was disappointed by 1938's " The Great Waltz . " While it is true that the music is wonderful , it also must be noted that the first part of the film is rather dull . Luise Rainer came into this film after back to back Oscar wins in 1936 and 1937 . At the beginning of the film , her behavi... |
421,279 | 2,542,703 | 37,469 | 6 | Woman in the Window Meets Dorothy at Oz - No Place Like Home 12 | Interesting film is marred by the ending . While others find the ending to be an unusual twist , I found it to be a cop-out . Ed G . Robinson is a college professor who becomes directly involved in a murder after meeting the woman whose picture he becomes enamored with while staring at a window . The professor is an am... |
421,076 | 2,542,703 | 443,274 | 6 | Vantage Point is Ground Hog Day With A Mystery Twist | Interesting film done with Roshomon-like style where for an hour of this film , we get the viewpoints of various people regarding the attempted assassination of an American president in Spain as well as other terrorist bombings which follow . There is never a dull moment . The action is filled with plot twists . The ri... |
420,550 | 2,542,703 | 53,054 | 6 | Mating Game Bogs Down on the Farm | The premise is funny where straight well-educated Tony Randall is sent to get Paul Douglas and family to pay up their taxers . Douglas is a nice rural type who has never bothered to file taxes in over 20 years ! Una Merkel is his farm wife and Debbie Reynolds plays the eldest of his children . Naturally , Randall falls... |
421,042 | 2,542,703 | 53,003 | 6 | Libel-I'll Slander It . Identity Theft in 1959 | Mediocre film where Dirk Bogarde takes two roles . He is accused of assuming the identity of someone that he has killed . Remember Bette Davis doing this in 1964's " Dead Ringer ? " That was so much better . The real acting here is done by Olivia DeHavilland who portrays Bogarde's wife . From all the testimony , it app... |
421,358 | 2,542,703 | 109,444 | 6 | Unclear is this Present Danger | Harrison Ford in this disappointing film about the affects of a Colombian cartel group dealing with drugs . Ford gets a top job at the CIA when the director ( James Earl Jones ) develops a terminal illness . It seems that the President and his assistant are involved in a covert war in Colombia when they are denying thi... |
421,517 | 2,542,703 | 269,232 | 6 | Double Jeopardy-Good Until Those Plot Twists | Prosecuting attorney Alexandra Cooper is shot to death after coming off a plane from L . A . Turns out that the actress-friend who was staying with her got blown away instead from a high-powered rifle . The question is : Who was the intended victim , the actress or the prosecutor ? We've got other rape cases to deal wi... |
421,244 | 2,542,703 | 53,017 | 6 | Lonelyhearts - Something Even Beyond Dear Abbey | This film is based on the play " Miss Lonelyhearts . " Montgomery Clift , the brooding loner of many films , is at it again as a man who is hiding a terrible secret from his fiancée-his father killed his mother when he was age 3 and is prison for this crime . A chance meeting with Myrna Loy leads Clift to a job as a ne... |
421,270 | 2,542,703 | 37,534 | 6 | Bells Not Ringing Clearly At Adano | 1945 film dealing with American occupation of the Italian town of Adano . John Hodiak portrays a sympathetic officer who understands the need of the town . - food and water to survive . He shows kindness to the people of the town , many of whom are comical characters . William Bendix plays his assistant in his usual co... |
421,031 | 2,542,703 | 47,191 | 6 | Long , Long Trailer-Not Necessarily Loving Lucy Here | Luci and Desi starred in this 1954 film . The major star in this beautifully colored film is the sumptuous trailer that newlyweds-to-be purchase . Naturally , there are complications . With Lucy , could there be anything else . There is the family visit where Desi backs into the house and the scene with Desi driving wh... |
421,126 | 2,542,703 | 37,588 | 6 | The Cheaters-Cheat Movie Goers | Joseph Schildkraut in a Christmas film . I can't seem to think where his character as a washed-out actor belongs . In some scenes he looks totally out of his mind and in others he tries to instill good virtues in this hum-drum picture . The youngest daughter of Eugene Palette and Billie Burke is a real brat . She acts ... |
420,599 | 2,542,703 | 107,120 | 6 | Hocus Pocus is Silly But On Focus | The Sanderson Sisters of Salem become alive again and return to Salem to wreak absolute havoc in this inane Disney film of 1993 . Bette Midler is terrific as the oldest and ugliest sister . She is ably supported by fellow " sisters " Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy . They want to " gobble " up the children of Sal... |
421,127 | 2,542,703 | 85,332 | 6 | Choices of the Heart - Leaves You With An Empty Feeling | Melissa Gilbert , who is Jewish in real life , dons a cross in this film playing an ill-fated missionary . After her murder is confirmed , the story goes back to how she came to this type of life . The story is basically of a girl who was conflicted in life and while being an exchange student is Ireland , is persuaded ... |
421,412 | 2,542,703 | 262,995 | 6 | Vickie & Al Need to Turn Up The Tempo | While we're not dealing with " Bonnie and Clyde , " we do need more excitement here . True , there is an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria , but there is also a lot of talking and soul searching in this mediocre production . John Firth is in fine in the role of Prince Albert . The definite weakness here is the ca... |
421,228 | 2,542,703 | 452,624 | 6 | Good German-Collective Guilt & Guilt for this Tedious Film | Bombed out Germany after World War 11 provides the action for this film dealing with deceit all around us . Toby McGuire , as the chauffeur for journalist Jacob Geismar , ( George Clooney ) is horribly miscast . He is far too young for the part and appears as though he should jump back into the spider man series . Now ... |
421,372 | 2,542,703 | 78,444 | 6 | An Unmarried Woman - Needs Some Kind of Bliss | Jill Clayburgh gives an off-the-wall performance in this 1978 film dealing with a woman who must confront the fact that her husband has walked out on her . After seemingly having the perfectly married life with a precocious daughter , Clayburgh is forced to re-enter life in a time of sexual revolution in America . Mich... |
420,357 | 2,542,703 | 434,139 | 6 | Last Kiss - Peyton Place in Wisconsin ? | . . . And I actually thought that the television series " Picket Fences " showed plenty of what was going on in Wisconsin . This film primarily deals with commitments or really the lack of . It is about immaturity and problems among older and younger couples . That's the problem here . Too much is trying to be shown . ... |
420,363 | 2,542,703 | 45,317 | 6 | We're Not Married-Better to Elope After this One | Victor Moore , as a justice of the peace , who didn't realize that his authority to marry people didn't start until January 1 . Therefore , all people he had previously married prior to this date were determined not to be married legally and were notified accordingly . Here is where the fun begins . As would be the cas... |
421,288 | 2,542,703 | 45,557 | 6 | Bigamist Lays An Egg | You would think that given the nature of the plot-bigamy and deceit , a terrific cast headed by Edmond O'Brien , Joan Fontaine and Ida Luppino , the latter also directed , there would be a lot of fireworks . If anything the film fizzles out at the end . O'Brien is a businessman whose marriage has really become a busine... |
420,408 | 2,542,703 | 113,501 | 6 | for When Our Cause is Just , or isn't it ? | Just Cause starts off well but after 45 minutes goes downhill rapidly . Ruby Dee runs to a veteran college professor , who hasn't practiced law in years . She begs him to intervene on the part of her college dropout grandson who is on death row for killing an eleven year old 8 years before . It looks like the old sou... |
421,131 | 2,542,703 | 45,566 | 6 | A Blueprint for Murders " Peters " Out | Interesting film soon falls flat . Joseph Cotten , a reserved heavy smoking businessman , shows up just in time when his young niece dies suddenly in the hospital . Joe's brother and sister-in-law are already gone , and before his death , the brother had remarried the lovely Jean Peters . A young nephew survives . What... |
420,563 | 2,542,703 | 43,090 | 6 | Union Station - Caution : Subway Riding May Be Hazardous to Your Health | In the same year that William Holden and Nancy Olson earned Oscar nominations for " Sunset Boulevard , " they both appeared in this crime thriller . When Olson observes the forever villainous Lyle Bettger with a gun , the action begins . Olson and his gang have kidnapped a wealthy blind girl . A faux pas in the film is... |
420,597 | 2,542,703 | 97,937 | 6 | My Left Foot Puts It in Its Mouth | Despite the brilliant performance of Daniel Day-Lewis , " My Left Foot " is a very disappointing film . In winning the Oscar , Lewis showed great depth and his mannerisms depicting a frustrated man paralyzed from cerebral palsy was amazing . I can't believe that Brenda Fricker was voted best supporting actress for her ... |
421,138 | 2,542,703 | 39,725 | 6 | Possessed The Devil Made Her Do It | Poor Joan Crawford . In her 1945 Oscar-winning performance , she was victimized by a wretched daughter . 2 years later Miss Crawford was nominated again for having a stepdaughter-in-law almost get the man that she wanted . ( Van Heflin ) Pity Raymond Massey in this " Possessed " mess . His first wife , a mentally ill w... |
420,841 | 2,542,703 | 464,049 | 6 | The History Boys Make Just That | This is basically another " Boys in the Band " film , 2006 . Period . The exacting is fabulous , especially by Richard Griffiths as a wily professor of literature and Frances de la Tour as the once-married history teacher . We know that there is latent homosexuality as the film progresses . It just becomes a matter of ... |
420,422 | 2,542,703 | 102,789 | 6 | Action Picture Fizzles Upon Impact | Denzel Washington , a policeman in law-school is playing basketball with the neighborhood toughs . He achieves fame by bringing down a drug dealing character , played extremely well by John Lithgow , who by his acting of a psychopath , put a new dimension into his acting abilities . Washington has it made as the years ... |
421,114 | 2,542,703 | 52,933 | 6 | It Happened to Jane Runs Out of Steam | Disappointing Doris Day-Jack Lemmon 1958 vehicle . The plot is funny where a widow with 2 children fights a railroad magnate , played to the hilt by Ernie Kovacs . It becomes a back and forth battle . As the lawyer for Day , Lemmon never really breaks through in this part . The comedic gifts of Mary Wickes are wasted i... |
420,596 | 2,542,703 | 41,088 | 6 | Act of Violence He Had Plenty of Film Time to Do Him In | A limping Robert Ryan is out to get Van Heflin since the latter betrayed his fellow men to the Nazis in a prisoner of war camp during World War 11 . My main problem with the film is that Ryan had plenty of opportunities to blow Heflin away but did not . Ryan plays his usual embittered self in this film noir production ... |
420,940 | 2,542,703 | 69,883 | 6 | Cinderella Liberty - Fairy Tales Don't Really Come True | Depressing film dealing with the subject of human losers . We have Johnny ( James Caan ) as a sailor who is left behind due to a medical condition and in the process his records are lost placing him in navy limbo . He encounters a tramp , convincingly played by Marsha Mason . Mason reminds me of Susan Hayward in looks ... |
421,200 | 2,542,703 | 28,102 | 6 | Piccadilly Jim A Real Dilly | Supporting players Cora Witherspoon and Eric Blore steal the show in this funny 1936 film . A guy , ( Robert Montgomery ) who is a cartoonist and his father , a Shakespearian actor , who hasn't played Shakespeare in 20 years , ( a very funny Frank Morgan ) vie for the attention of two women . Morgan is after Billie Bur... |
421,219 | 2,542,703 | 395,251 | 6 | Shock , Schlock Mar Bialystock & Company | An early song in this Mel Brooks romp describing shock , schlock of Max Bialystock really describes the problems in this offensive movie . Yes , offensive it is to all groups . Singing about Hitler and Germany is most obnoxious . Could you imagine Holocaust survivors sitting through this ? Unlike the original film , th... |
420,970 | 2,542,703 | 198,021 | 6 | Where the Heart is | Cliché ridden film dealing with a teenager who builds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend at a local Wal-Mart . The boyfriend goes on to become a country singer superstar before drugs and drinking ruin his career as well as getting hit by a truck which leads to the amputation of both legs . This film also s... |
421,400 | 2,542,703 | 104,006 | 6 | Consenting Adults-It's Not Bob , Carol , Ted & Alice | The first part of the film really drags where a musical performer , Kevin Kline , leads an average life with wife and daughter . Along comes the new neighbors . Kevin Spacey is in fine form as the neighbor . At once , he shows himself to be an oddball . He becomes a little too friendly with Kline and Mary Elizabeth , a... |
421,375 | 2,542,703 | 440,963 | 6 | Bourne Ultimatum Ultimately is Fatiguing | Even with the great chase scenes and non-stop action , The Bourne Ultimatum ultimately does not satisfy as we have seen so much of this before . It doesn't take much to realize as the film goes on that the head of the group has his own agenda . David Strathairn , in the latter role , plays the part cool and collected ,... |
420,984 | 2,542,703 | 1,125,849 | 6 | Wrestler-Is Much Ado About Nothing As Rourke Looks Like He Has Been through Ringer | Ordinary story of a dejected wrestler who dreams for a comeback . Quite appropriate for Mickey Rourke as he has been out of the limelight for years now . Nonetheless , his performance was really nothing special except that he needed much physical stamina for it . To me , Rachel Evan Wood steals the movie for her fine s... |
421,626 | 2,542,703 | 49,653 | 6 | The Rainmaker - When It Rains , It Pours But Cloudburst Doesn't Help | Even the great Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster can't help this film dealing with a woman who has little prospect of ever finding a husband in a rural Texas town . Hepburn plays Lizzie Curry to the hilt but she can't arise over the writing and some utterly boring scenes . Hepburn may also have been too old for the ... |
420,359 | 2,542,703 | 164,184 | 6 | Sum of All Fears - You'd Be Afraid Too | A rather muddled thriller with the U . S . and Russia on the verge of total conflagration . Ben Affleck , the doctoral scientist , knows that the Russians did not cause the nuclear explosion that destroyed the eastern part of the United States . He has to prove it before President Cromwell nukes Russia and they fight b... |
421,265 | 2,542,703 | 414,993 | 6 | The Fountain She Studied Science in Junior High School | Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz are well cast in this film . Their acting is quite good but in reality , what are they really trying to achieve here ? The film has its good moments when it is up-to-date with a dedicated doctor desperately trying to save his wife from a fatal brain tumor . The ancient scenes are absolutel... |
421,326 | 2,542,703 | 1,118,040 | 6 | Charlie & Me - Needs A Doctor on Call | We've seen it so many times before . Grandpa is stricken with a severe coronary , but this time the precocious and often obnoxious little girl lies to protect him . She is invariably afraid of the surgery he may have to have to survive . Of course , it turns out that the girl was right and we're supposed to listen to h... |
421,507 | 2,542,703 | 53,271 | 6 | Shaggy Dog - It's A Dog's Life | Fred MacMurray and Jean Hagen starred in this 1959 film . Miss Hagen was given very little to do here . Ironically , about 15 years after this film , both MacMurray and Hagen were diagnosed with throat cancer . He survived , dying from pneumonia years later . She succumbed 2 years later , in 1977 , at age 54 . This lig... |
420,628 | 2,542,703 | 42,994 | 6 | Stage Fright - Was Jane Intimidated by Marlene Here ? | After viewing this film , I was wondering if Jane Wyman was intimidated by the fact that she co-starred with Marlene Dietrich in this 1950 Hitcock film . It sure appeared that way to me in the scenes with these two ladies , despite the fact that Wyman had already copped an Oscar 2 years before for " Johnny Belinda . " ... |
421,580 | 2,542,703 | 115,580 | 6 | The Associate - You Could Associate With This | Women's lib would really go for this 1996 film about a woman who loses a promotion to her fellow worker despite her better experience and seniority . Since she will now be a subordinate to this guy , she quits and forms her own investment group . She is aided by a very frumpy Dianne Wiest . When she can't get anywhere ... |
420,624 | 2,542,703 | 46,806 | 6 | Bridges of Toko-Ri is A Bridge to Nowhere | Imagine , Grace Kelly won the Oscar in 1954 for " The Country Girl . " Bill Holden costarred with her in that film and in this one , he plays her husband . Amazing that Miss Kelly did not have a major role in this film . This is really nothing more than a routine film again dealing with the subject of the futility of w... |
421,154 | 2,542,703 | 42,980 | 6 | So Long At the Fair - Ending Lacks Real Excitement | Curious film dealing with where is he ? Jean Simmons and David Tomlinson star as brother and sister in this one who go to Paris from London to view the 1889 French Exposition . Tomlinson mysteriously disappears and the film is devoted to looking for him . Trouble is that no one at the hotel will corroborate Simmons ' s... |
421,597 | 2,542,703 | 75,005 | 6 | The Omen - That Nasty Little Brat ! | The original and probably the best of the series dealing with the anti-Christ child who reeks havoc on the lives of his parents , presidential aspirant and ambassador , Gregory Peck and his lovely , but troubled wife-Lee Remick . As the child gets older , the woes of his parents worsen and why not . He was destined to ... |
420,568 | 2,542,703 | 356,680 | 6 | The Family Stone - Too Many Stones Unturned ? | Dermott brings Sarah Jessica home for Christmas to meet his family and propose marriage . Every conceivable thing goes wrong and the family can't warm up to her . In the midst , Dermott has a deaf-mute brother who is gay and living with a black gentleman . Another sister has broken off with her beau and there is still ... |
420,895 | 2,542,703 | 48,744 | 6 | Viva Villa But Not Necessarily this Film | Shelley Winters in a typical western yarn set at the time of the uprising of the fiery Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa . Gilbert Roland , as Castro , another fiery revolutionary is fascinating to watch . He has these types of parts well under his grip . Even the use of the word gringo can't be said better by anyone ... |
421,142 | 2,542,703 | 51,214 | 6 | The Young Stranger - Witnesses Anyone ? | A teenage James MacArthur stars in this film dealing with the age old theme of listen to your children as well as try to believe them . From an affluent Beverly Hill home , MacArthur finds himself being harassed in a movie theater after a patron complained about his putting his legs on a chair . The problem is that the... |
421,523 | 2,542,703 | 36,037 | 6 | Immortal Sergeant Lives On | Henry Fonda looks just like he appeared in 1940's " The Grapes of Wrath . " This is quite a good film detailing several soldiers caught in Africa during World War 11 and how they eventually overcome their perils . Thomas Mitchell , as the old-time sergeant is a standout here . There is able support by Allyn Joslyn , Re... |
420,878 | 2,542,703 | 387,131 | 6 | As Confusing as Medicare Part D Describes " Constant Gardener " | A very disappointing goes to " The Constant Gardener " Dealing with the greed and ultimate murders they commit , pharmaceutical companies really get some reputation from exploiting Kenyan people stricken with aids . They test tuberculosis drugs on them knowing full well they are terminal anyway . Then , they talk up ho... |
421,011 | 2,542,703 | 443,543 | 6 | The Illusionist Deals With A Vanishing Love | Edward Norton is in top form as a magician who loves the woman engaged to the prince of the Austria-Hungary before World War 1 . The two know each other from childhood but were separated due to her family . Leopold is a vicious character who plots to overthrow his father and marry Duchess Sophie . Norton reenters the s... |
420,555 | 2,542,703 | 49,096 | 6 | The Court Jester Is One Foolish Joke | Danny Kaye was a fabulous entertainer . There is no question about that . However , he allowed himself to be in a very foolish , thinly lined plot in this 1955 mess . I did notice that the musical score for this movie was later adopted by Kaye in his 1960s television series . The film is a spoof of Errol Flynn films . ... |
420,365 | 2,542,703 | 1,252,330 | 6 | Relative Stranger is Beyond Somewhere | This film is essentially Bill Cosby and the Huxtable Family on television in a major conflict . The story would have been far better had it dealt with an impoverished white or black family . Instead , we're dealing with an upper class family whose father abandoned them 6 years ago and has now returned following the dea... |
421,305 | 2,542,703 | 46,931 | 6 | Dragnet-More than Just the Facts Are Needed | Jack Webb and Ben Alexander , the two television icons of " Dragnet , " made this 1954 film . As an inducement to get people to see it , the film was colorized . The television show was black and white . The story centers on a runner who is rubbed out at the beginning . Unlike the television show , the killers are show... |
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