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490,407 | 33,913 | 80,974 | 9 | Missing Info ! but faithful to the Glaspell's play ! | It should be Trifles which is faithful to the Susan Glaspell one act play of the same name . It would have been nice to have the cast and crew names to note and compliment or criticize them there but I don't know their names or I would do the deed . Anyway , the short film is faithful to the one act play and it's super... |
490,594 | 33,913 | 71,351 | 9 | It's Johnny Cash ! | When Academy Award nominee Joaquim Phoenix was researching Johnny Cash , he mentioned this Columbo episode in particular . Johnny Cash plays a man who is very similar in some respects to his real personality . They're both musicians and singers but that's it . Johnny's character is a recovering criminal who married Ida... |
490,548 | 33,913 | 90,406 | 9 | God Bless the Cavanaughs ! | I remember the Cavanaughs particularly Barnard Hughes and Christine Ebersole playing father and daughter . I apologize but my memory could be wrong . Anyway , they did a very good job on the show . The sitcom could have been a hit but CBS had too many other sitcoms on the air at the time . Unfortunately , I don't remem... |
490,405 | 33,913 | 42,702 | 9 | An Almost Perfect Biographical film of Holmes ! | First , the casting of Lewis Calhern as Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ann Harding as his wife , Fanny Bowditch Holmes , is perfect together . The film is set around Holmes ' life as a Supreme Court Justice with the late Louis Brandeis who was the first Jewish member of the supreme court . The film is first rate and the scr... |
489,851 | 33,913 | 115,291 | 9 | Oh Canada ! | I would love to see more comedies out of Canada . Most of today's American comedies are downright dumbed down to the audience of the young and the restless . Anyway , I was surprised that I actually enjoyed watching this show mixed in with the British comedies on NJN . I love Canada . I was watching the episode which w... |
490,720 | 33,913 | 410,966 | 9 | The Answer to Our Prayers ! | The Blue Collar Comedy Tour has launched a successful comedy show not filmed in New York or Hollywood but in Atlanta , Georgia at a local theater . Sadly , the yuppies in New York and Hollywood don't understand the rest of the country . We're not all ignorant , bigoted blue collar trailer trash as the elite might think... |
489,737 | 33,913 | 90,417 | 9 | A Classic Canadian Show ! | I always wished that Degrassi Junior High admitted that they were set in Canada . They always seem to omit the city location . I remember spending my weekends watching Degrassi Junior High on our PBS stations with my friends . We were about the same age as the cast . Let's not forget those awful clothes that the cast o... |
490,255 | 33,913 | 90,425 | 9 | A Great Cast but missed opportunities ! | This show had a great cast featuring Oscar Winner Ellen Burstyn with Elaine Stritch playing her mother and Megan Mullaly playing the daughter with a young son . Sadly , the show never caught on to public attention . But with great cast , how could you go wrong ? Well , this was the era of nothing but sitcoms and now we... |
490,353 | 33,913 | 900,672 | 9 | Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs ! | That's what nurse Linda said as she brought in Sean's next patient . At this rate , Sean feels second best , his ego hurt because a client preferred Christian over him for surgery . Anyway , Willy Ward is ventriloquist who wants plastic surgery to look more like his dummy Ralphie . I know what you're thinking and just ... |
490,728 | 33,913 | 811,026 | 9 | Almost Perfect ! Left Wanting More ! | Dame Helen Mirren ends perhaps her most famous role besides that of Queens . Jane Tennison DCI is one of the most original female characters that television has produced in recent years . She is almost unforgettable . When Dame Helen Mirren first started , few people knew who she was and now everybody knows in the worl... |
490,470 | 33,913 | 75,296 | 9 | Sally Field and Joanne Woodward's Best Film | Forget Sally's other movies , Sybil is her best performance to date even though it is a television miniseries . It beats film . Sally and Joanne give compelling performances as patient and psychiatrist relationship . Sybil's no ordinary person , she has 16 personalities inside her . Dr . Wilbur has to help her dig out ... |
490,600 | 33,913 | 70,991 | 9 | Let the Good Times Roll | Good Times was a groundbreaking comedy about the first nuclear black family living in the Chicago projects . Whether or not , you live in the inner cities , ghettos , suburbs , or rural countryside , this show is still a treasure to watch and observe a family being just a family rather than a show about a poor black fa... |
490,153 | 33,913 | 898,704 | 9 | Interesting Look into the Future ! | Joely Richardson had to leave the show for family reasons . Her daughter Daisy was having surgery so she had to be with her in London . Anyway , the show's producer who I think is wonderful because he planned the season to accommodate her . The episode is powerful with Dylan Walsh giving his finest performance yet this... |
490,215 | 33,913 | 81,857 | 9 | First Entertainment Show and Probably the Best ! ! ! | Okay , Entertainment Tonight may have lost it's way with the whole Anna Nicole Smith baby , Dannielynn Birkhead , and about her life . But for most part , Entertainment tonight was a classic must-see television experience for those of us who study entertainment and those of us who wanted to be part of the business . Sa... |
490,641 | 33,913 | 57,729 | 9 | Creepy & Spooky ! | Okay , the Addams family is not for everybody . It was kind of the first family on television to be different . First , you have a beautiful seductive mother , Morticia , with lovely long black hair and dressed often in black , and her equally strange husband played by John Astin . Carolyn Jones devoured the role of Mo... |
490,681 | 33,913 | 57,731 | 9 | Sorry , Mayor Giuliani , I can't forgive you for this cancellation ! | This Friday is the last episode of Another World . A show beloved by a significant number of fans of all ages comes to an end after 35 years . Another World will be missed so much . It was a show character and story driven . Sometimes silly , sometimes touching , funny , and poignant . The love affair between Mac Cory ... |
489,992 | 33,913 | 115,167 | 9 | Why everybody loves this show ? | Everybody loves Raymond was a labor of love for the cast and crew for nine seasons . It maintained a steady helping of humor , love , and family relationships without missing a beat during those nine seasons . The whole of adult actors like Ray Romano , Peter Boyle , Doris Roberts , Brad Garrett , and Patricia Heaton r... |
490,773 | 33,913 | 63,518 | 9 | The near perfect adaptation of Shakespeare's classic ! | This adaptation is probably the finest involving Romeo and Juliet . Olivia Hussey is superb and so is the young Michael York as Tybalt . Milo Shea plays the friar who helps Romeo and Juliet . It's a tragedy . We all know the story but after viewing it in my high school days , I can't imagine a better film to show adole... |
490,222 | 33,913 | 749,289 | 9 | Rest in Peace , Lana Clarkson ! | Oh what might have been if Lana Clarkson had finally gotten the break she deserved in this cruel industry of Hollywood . In only a couple of minutes , she plays Janine who works for a Nantucket plastic surgeon . Even in only the couple of minutes she was on the air , she was radiant , funny , and talented . She had it ... |
490,747 | 33,913 | 97,082 | 9 | Very Entertaining ! | Soap stars Ian Buchanan from General Hospital and the always beautiful Deirdre Hall from Days of Our Lives are involved in a disappearance and possible murder of a publisher . Of course , this brings a slew of much needed publicity for a starving magazine . Gigi Rice has a role as well . It's a familiar story with Ian ... |
490,339 | 33,913 | 81,912 | 9 | Good for the ultimate British comedy fan ! | I was in London over the holidays and I finally got to see this show . At first , I was hesitant about it . I felt it was too dry but I learned to like the humor and relationship between Sir David Jason O . B . E . and Nicholas Lyndhurst as brothers . It was realistic and worth watching again . Buster Merryfield should... |
490,351 | 33,913 | 900,671 | 9 | Please no More Rosie O'Donnell | All I can say is that Nip / Tuck never disappoints but the idea of Rosie O'Donnell getting a series based around her character is quite appalling . She just plays herself and she has never really acted before in the same context as the others . I don't know why she came back twice . Just leave her to the View and those... |
490,640 | 33,913 | 57,773 | 9 | An Alternative to the Addams family ! | I was more familiar with the Munsters than with the Addams family . I thought the Munsters were more friendly and less threatening and less spooky . The show had a first rate cast that featured Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster , the lovable Frankenstein father figure , Yvonne De Carlo as Lily Munster , the vampire's daugh... |
490,350 | 33,913 | 866,231 | 9 | He's Back ! | I never watched the premiere episode but I think I'm going to watch it on DVD of Nip / Tuck . Anyway , Escobar Gallardo played wonderfully by Robert Lasardo should get a best supporting actor in a drama Emmy nomination for his appearances . He's always well worth watching . I think Ryan Murphy hates not having him arou... |
490,172 | 33,913 | 970,525 | 9 | An Excellent Short Film ! | The acting is above average . I liked April Nicholson playing Mrs . Wright , the grieving mother , and the young man who played an aspiring reporter . The young man's role is that he just lost his mother and is on assignment to ask a grieving mother about pictures of her dead son from a car accident . There is a third ... |
490,217 | 33,913 | 590,925 | 9 | Send in the Clowns ! ! ! | I don't know why we haven't heard of Judy Cohen since this episode . She can break your heart singing Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns . She plays herself as an aspiring singer who beats herself down very much because she is overweight and not the classic beauty . J . J . takes to her because he is need of a good ... |
490,329 | 33,913 | 304,636 | 9 | It's a fascinating look at Bundy & Ridgway | I had just bought the book , The Riverman , in Ketchikan , Alaska . I was on vacation and I bought it at a drugstore . It is perhaps one of the best books ever written about Bundy . Keppel does not leave anything out regarding Bundy or Ridgway in the book but the film version is conduced to keeping the important facts ... |
490,802 | 33,913 | 310,357 | 9 | Quite good ! | I have to say Crispin Glover was born to play the role of Williard Stiles , a lonely disturbed man beaten down by his boss at work . His mother does not even like his name and changes it to Mark . I like the usage of Bruce Davison's role in the film as Williard's father . Poor Williard , he never had much success with ... |
489,870 | 33,913 | 112,305 | 9 | Take out your handkerchiefs ! | I think this film is a very good television movie that did not receive a lot of credit or attention . Interracial romances have always been controversial from L . A . Law to All My Children . Remember Michelle Greene got more hate mail regarding her kiss of African American actor , Blair Underwood , than when she kisse... |
490,829 | 33,913 | 138,083 | 9 | Bring back the after school specials ! We Need Them ! | Seasonal Differences had a great cast including the wonderful , incomparable Uta Hagen as a Holocaust survivor Omi and family matriarch . Her Jewish American granddaughter played by Canadian actress Megan Follows who is under-rated , is dating a non-Jewish boy . Friction occurs at school when the nativity scene raises ... |
489,963 | 33,913 | 75,511 | 9 | Another Classic Britcom ! 4 C . B . E . ' s ! | When I heard of Good Neighbors , I didn't think much of it . Then when they began airing it after Waiting for God on WLIW Long Island last year . I became enchanted by a star cast , Richard Briers , Felicity Kendal , Penelope Keith , and the late Paul Eddington . Paul , Richard , and Felicity have been honoured with a ... |
490,416 | 33,913 | 68,611 | 9 | Not one of the Master Hitchcock's Best but not the worst either ! | Watching Frenzy from Sir Alfred Hitchcock is quite fascinating . The cast features the great Billie Whitelaw C . B . E . , Clive Swift ( Keeping Up Appearances ) , Jean Marsh ( who should be awarded Damehood by now ) , the unforgettable Vivian Merchant in a great small role as the cop's wife who likes to cook French cu... |
490,441 | 33,913 | 138,097 | 9 | Yes , Saving Private Ryan got robbed ! But it's still a fine film ! | Shakespeare in Love is an alright film . I like the casting of Tom Wilkinson , Imelda Staunton , Judi Dench , Anthony Sher , Gwyneth Paltrow , Ralph Fiennes , Ben Affleck , etc . It really is a first cast . The script is better than good , almost great . The directing is also first rate . But this is where I agree that... |
490,710 | 33,913 | 417,731 | 9 | A Promising Director's Impressive Debut Film ! | Scott McKinsey is the son of the late soap actress , Beverlee McKinsey . Scott has worked as a director behind the soap scenes for years to earn his status . In this film , he takes a true story of Eddy Patterson , an 18 year old autistic but intelligent and likable sports adult . The actor who plays Eddy does a brilli... |
489,747 | 33,913 | 312,081 | 9 | The show is going on for John ! | ABC has done more for this show by allowing television veterans James Garner and David Spade to join the cast of this show . At first , the show was watchable and even predictable with John Ritter and Katey Sagal . John's loss shocked the world . Katey and the three kids are really a solid professional cast . The hour ... |
490,151 | 33,913 | 888,288 | 9 | If the Walls Could Talk , They would tell such stories ! | What a season for Nip / Tuck with guest stars like Catherine Deneuve who flew all the way from Paris , France to appear in this show , Brooke Shields who played the stalking psychiatrist Dr . Wolper , Jacqueline Bissett as James , the pimping body part stealer , and the wonderful Larry Hagman who played Bert Landru who... |
490,576 | 33,913 | 425,395 | 9 | A Very Funny Movie ! | The movie is first rate with a great acting ensemble like Ron Livingston better known for his leading role in Office Space , Emmy Winner Christine Baranski playing his adoptive mother , Edward Herrmann as his adoptive father . His adoptive parents are conservative WASPY and prominent country club member folks living in... |
490,628 | 33,913 | 1,104,392 | 9 | Okay , you won me over ! | First , let me say that I am not big on dramas of any kind . There usually is more drama behind the scenes that is far more interesting than on camera but somehow I am won over by this show's different take . It's filmed and set in Albuquerque , New Mexico with two U . S . Marshalls . The female U . S . Marshall , Mary... |
489,802 | 33,913 | 356,999 | 9 | Almost Perfect ! It Should be in the West End or Broadway ! | In my opinion , I didn't know that this was a musical comedy . The French make the best films around with character driven story lines . This film has a first rate cast but I didn't care for Lambert Wilson's performance as the American , Eric Thomson . I did love Isabelle Nanty as Arlette , the old maid . She was perfe... |
490,170 | 33,913 | 775,529 | 9 | Excellent Film about Contemporary Family Relations ! | Savages was written and directed by Tamara Jenkins . Oscar nominee Laura Linney and Oscar Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman play estranged siblings , Wendy and John . She is an aspiring playwright in New York City and he's an aspiring author / literature professor in Buffalo , New York . The chemistry is perfect between th... |
490,277 | 33,913 | 79,417 | 9 | A Movie Still Relevant Today ! | I saw Kramer v . Kramer on video and it still touches my soul . The original score is excellent . I love the fact that they filmed in New York City by showing the sights and sounds of New York in 1979 . I thought Meryl Streep showed that she's a scene stealer in this film and deserved her academy award as well as Dusti... |
489,956 | 33,913 | 54,198 | 9 | Never on Sunday ! That's my day of rest ! | It is easy to see why I am fascinated with Greece . It is not because of it's role in this film . Melina Mercouri plays a self-made woman of the world's oldest profession in one of the world's greatest civilizations . She is beautiful , intelligent , and independent from men . In fact , she entices men to her rather th... |
489,741 | 33,913 | 105,943 | 9 | It's a likable show ! | As Time Goes By is actually a mediocre show . Sometimes , I can't believe the stories including when Dame Judi Dench's character , Jean , informs her sister-in-law played by the wonderful Moyra Fraser about Lionel being a psychiatrist . There are lots of wonderful moments in this show about their reunion and relationsh... |
490,270 | 33,913 | 66,932 | 9 | Classic Columbo ! | This Columbo episode is probably noted more for the director , Steven Spielberg , as one of his early films . It should be looked at for Jack Cassidy's role as the murderer who kills his partner in writing to maintain his lifestyle . Jack Cassidy would appear in a later Columbo . After all , Columbo meets his match in ... |
490,319 | 33,913 | 88,128 | 9 | Still worth watching again and again ! | I too remember seeing this film in the movie theater with my dad and sister . The film is typical John Hughes fare . It's about a 16 year old girl played of course by Molly Ringwald . She does a superb job as the girl who is never really embraced in the high school life . She is rather treated more like an outcast than... |
490,325 | 33,913 | 256,380 | 10 | A Wonderful Heartfelt Movie to be watched over and over again ! | I read somewhere that Gwyneth Paltrow wore her fat-suit around to see people's reaction . Almost unrecognizable , she received negative , malevolent treatment from total strangers . People were not giving her the time of the day . Obesity is seen as a weakness or an embarrassment by the general population . Even though... |
490,495 | 33,913 | 221,425 | 10 | Thank You , Bob Ballard ! But People , Leave Titanic alone now ! | Dr . Bob Ballard is one of my favorite people of all time . It is he who helped discover Titanic's location . I remember watching this special after TBS aired the film S . O . S . Titanic from 1979 . During this special , you can't help but be moved and touched . Dr . Ballard never wanted Titanic to be seen as a place ... |
489,947 | 33,913 | 102,926 | 10 | Definitely not for the Squeamish or Easily frightened ! | The Silence of the Lambs is one of the most frightening yet intense and intelligent films from the early nineties . The casting of Sir Anthony Hopkins as the evil Dr . Hannibal Lector was a perfect choice and he won an Academy Award for his 16 minutes of airtime . Jodie Foster deserved her second Academy Award for Best... |
489,746 | 33,913 | 61,240 | 10 | Still my favorite show ! | I loved the Carol Burnett show when I was a child . It was in half-hour reruns . After spending the last weekend watching TV Land marathon , I just learned why . It was one of the most entertaining experiences in television history . This was a great cast of highly talented people not just the beloved star , Carol Burn... |
489,812 | 33,913 | 89,960 | 10 | Still the Vagabond ! | I can't believe that I saw this film ten years ago in Dr . Flitterman-Lewis ' class on Women and Film at Rutgers in New Brunswick , New Jersey . It was probably one of the most memorable films from that class . I thought Sandrine Bonnaire did an absolute brilliant job as playing Mona . I felt so sorry for her . She was... |
490,498 | 33,913 | 80,319 | 10 | So Funny that you'll cry laughing ! | What a combination of great talent in this cast and that includes Oscar nominees Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton with 2-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda and Dabney Coleman playing their despicable boss . Remember when typewriters were the computers of our time and on every office desktop imaginable . Anyway , I liked Peggy Po... |
490,049 | 33,913 | 80,306 | 10 | Stellar Cast , Crew , and Writing ! | Yes , Minister explained the intricacies about life as a member of parliament . Paul Eddington CBE ( The Good Life ) is the minister of parliament elected by his district or constituency . His new adviser is played by the brilliant Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds is also brilliant in his role . The cast and crew d... |
490,438 | 33,913 | 68,327 | 10 | One of the Greatest All Time Musical Films ! | Cabaret was far different that the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical films like The Sound of Music or Mary Poppins or Oklahoma . This film was decadent for the time of Berlin before Hitler's rise to power . As the Nazi movement was gaining power , Berlin residents like Sally Bowles played by the one and only Liza Minnell... |
490,768 | 33,913 | 65,088 | 10 | A heartbreaking adventure of a film ! | I have to say that this film is quite difficult to watch sometimes . I believe Jane Fonda gave one of her best dramatic performances as a desperate woman . She earned an academy award nomination for her performance and it was worth it . Her co-star Michael Sarrazin won an Academy Award for his role in " West Side Story... |
490,375 | 33,913 | 250,581 | 10 | The Story only a daughter could have written about ! | Lorna Luft was the daughter of Judy Garland and her husband , Sid Luft . The mini-series stars the brilliant Judy Davis as the older Judy Garland while the younger Judy is portrayed by Guiding Light alum Tammy Blanchard . Both actresses would win Emmys for their performances . Judy Davis brings her to life once again a... |
490,040 | 33,913 | 108,981 | 10 | Better than Absolutely Fabulous ! | Dawn French who believed it or not turned down an O . B . E . ( Officer of the Order of the British Empire ) with her comedy and professional partner , Jennifer Saunders in 2000 , is worth watching alone . She is one of the funniest women in the United Kingdom or worldwide . The show is funny and worth watching over an... |
490,780 | 33,913 | 433,383 | 10 | The Best Film of the Year ! | I am amazed that this film does not get the same attention at Brokeback MOuntain . It is simply an incredible achievement for director George Clooney . My biggest complaint is that it is too short . There is so much going on during that time . I am reminded of how the news changed since the days of Edwin R . Murrow . I... |
490,655 | 33,913 | 116,581 | 10 | One of My Favorite Movies ! | I saw this film first on my way home from Paris to Newark aboard Air France in August 1996 . The film itself I believe is quite a masterpiece . It's the kind of film that people should be making . I still think Daniel Auteuil is one of the sexiest actors around . In this French film , he plays a divorced father and bus... |
490,777 | 33,913 | 21,884 | 10 | A Classic Frankenstein ! | This was really the first film about Frankenstein . While it is over seventy years old , it is still amazing to watch . It's one of those early cinematographic achievements that remind us the origins of film-making . Colin Clive is superb as Dr . Henry Frankenstein . Unfortunately , he died of alcoholism . He could hav... |
490,494 | 33,913 | 75,866 | 10 | One of my all time favorite Columbo episodes ! | I love this episode of Columbo . Maybe it's because Ruth Gordon is in it and she is wonderful as successful mystery writer Abigail Mitchell , an American version of Dame Agatha Christie . She is delicious to watch as the perky , lovable author who suffered a terrible loss when her niece died in a drowning accident . Sh... |
489,900 | 33,913 | 72,500 | 10 | Twelve Episodes isn't enough ! | Fawlty Towers sadly should have been more than 12 episodes or two seasons by British standards . John Cleese who turned down an C . B . E . ( Commander of the Order of the British Empire ) in 1996 should have been knighted but if he refused the C . B . E . then why bother but he is a comedic genius and brilliant intell... |
490,652 | 33,913 | 68,103 | 10 | Then There's Maude ! | Unfortunately , I never saw Maude until I got the DVD first season of her show . It appeared nowhere in syndication maybe because it was too controversial and might offend too many people . Compared to other shows today , Maude is quite mainstream and ahead of it's time . I loved Beatrice Arthur in this role of Maude ,... |
490,665 | 33,913 | 363,352 | 10 | Come to the Magic Garden ! | When I was five years old , it was my favorite television show . I remembered it was on channel 11 at 2PM everyday . The show's premise was simple with Carole and Janis as the hostesses of this children's television show . They sang songs and read stories to us as children . It was done in a studio with only 54 episode... |
489,928 | 33,913 | 68,098 | 10 | What Made Television Great ! | This show , MASH , is one of television greatest sitcoms . Based about life in the Korean War , the medical unit with a stellar cast like Alan Alda , Loretta Swit , Mike Farrell , Maclean Stevenson , David Ogden Stiers , Jamie Farr , and others maintained a show that would last a decade and be more popular than the ori... |
490,578 | 33,913 | 66,193 | 10 | Better than the Remake ! | I didn't appreciate this film until I saw the updated version . This film starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as Ohio visitors to New York City . The trip is nearly disastrous from the moment that they get off the airplane . Of course , this film is one of Neil Simon's better works . The couple lose their luggage , g... |
490,199 | 33,913 | 68,120 | 10 | Won't Be the Same Without You , Bob ! | I can't imagine anybody else than Bob Barker hosting the Price is Right . After all , he has been hosting for decades . Now in his youthful eighties , he is retiring . No longer will he be the game show host or retired . The game show is based on the normal people , randomly chosen by the show's announcer to come on do... |
490,756 | 33,913 | 17,423 | 10 | Brilliant even without sound ! | Before sound and talkies became the norm in the film industry , we had to settle with black and white cinematography and an original score to understand the story . Mary Pickford was a brilliant actress and one of the first true movie stars who made the transformation from the silent films to the talkies . This film sh... |
490,155 | 33,913 | 442,685 | 10 | A Dame is Announced ! | Dame Geraldine McEwan ( since she refused becoming a dame in 2002 and an O . B . E . or Officer of the British Empire in 1986 ) , I am going to call her that anyway . Geraldine is a finely trained actress and her role as the new Jane Marple of the new century is a welcome delight . This is a first rate production with ... |
490,608 | 33,913 | 72,519 | 10 | They don't make them like they used too ! | The Jeffersons happened to be a spin off from All in the Family . I loved the relationship between George's mother played the wonderful Zara Cully who passed away during the series long run and Louise known as Weezy played by the wonderful Isabel Sanford . Then they brought in Florence as the maid played by the hilario... |
490,680 | 33,913 | 83,483 | 10 | The Best of the Best ! | After watching St . Elsewhere on Bravo , I realized that it is truly a superior show even now . It took chances that nobody else is willing to take . It is even more multi-ethnic than most dramas today . It makes ER and other medical shows look like they written by first graders . Even after all these years , St . Else... |
490,532 | 33,913 | 212,346 | 10 | A Fun Movie that will leave you in stitches long after ! | I have to admit that I wasn't first crazy about this movie . But I watched it a couple of times on television and I still laugh about it . Sandra Bullock is perfect and I can watch her in anything anyway . She is one of the down to earth of today's crop of stars . Well , she plays Gracie Hart or Gracie Freebush ( an F ... |
490,531 | 33,913 | 112,641 | 10 | It's like a roller coaster ride ! It's addictive , fun , and entertaining ! | I love Casino especially if I watch it from the beginning . Robert DeNiro should have won an Academy AWard for this performance along with Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone . The film is perfectly entertaining about casinos before it became Disneyland . There were other great performances by Don Rickles , Alan King , etc . Th... |
490,156 | 33,913 | 441,885 | 10 | What a sheer delight to watch Dame Geraldine McEwan | She should have accepted one of England highest honors bestowed upon a woman , Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2002 . She declined to accept maybe just for the same reasons that she declined an O . B . E . ( Officer of the British Empire ) in 1986 . She is very well deserved of any honor . I am going to call he... |
490,636 | 33,913 | 118,375 | 10 | The Best Cartoon Family on Television ! | Ten years after the Simpsons first debuted , Fox took another chance and gave us the Hill family from the Office Space guy , Mike Judge . At first , I grew to prefer the Hills to the Simpsons because I liked the Hills better . I identified with them more easily . Hank and Peggy Hill are a nice Texas couple who live wit... |
490,782 | 33,913 | 116,477 | 10 | A Classic Film ! | William Shakespeare would be proud of Kenneth Branagh's work in this film adaptation . Granted the uncut version is long and tedious but it is visually stunning and extremely well directed by the star as well . Maybe KEnneth Branagh is not only Laurence Olivier but our Orson Welles of this generation . They spared no e... |
490,196 | 33,913 | 246,430 | 10 | A Fantastic Adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary ! | Let's face this fact that Anne Frank's diary is almost as well read as the Bible , Torah , and Koran . We all know about Anne Frank , the Dutch Jewish girl , who hid in the attic with her family during World War II from the Nazis . She wrote in her diary about life in the attic and how they lived under constant fear an... |
490,706 | 33,913 | 640,623 | 10 | Don't call her that ! | Yeardley Smith guest stars as a runaway from the juvenile hall that Bubba was in . She runs to his house after seeing him tee-peeing the neighbors house . Bubba is equally afraid of her since she is considered to be one of the nastiest girls at reform school . Of course , things couldn't get worse since Mama Harper is ... |
490,364 | 33,913 | 640,619 | 10 | Mama Goes Dirty Dancing ! | When Vint and Naomi sign up to go Dirty Dancing , Mama , Bubba , and Iola tag along to the dance contest . There Mama Harper reunites with a man who is now a widower . It turns out that Thelma and Carl and him and his late wife used to go dancing all the time . In this episode with the popularity of the film , Dirty Da... |
490,817 | 33,913 | 640,615 | 10 | Classic Episode ! | When Bubba come home drunk and causing trouble , Mama Harper gives him a hard punishment . It's not until Iola explains about Thelma's experience with Eunice years ago . In this episode , Thelma and Eunice were scheduled to perform a mother-daughter act at the mothers and daughters luncheon at the church . Iola played ... |
490,537 | 33,913 | 418,689 | 10 | Restores my Faith in American Cinema ! | I read the book a couple of years ago . When I was watching in the film in the smaller theater of the cinema , I kept remembering the names like Strank , Franklin Sousley , Iggy , James Bradley , Hank Hansen , Rene Gagon , and of course Ira Hayes . The movie can only do so much that the book is a great resource for lea... |
490,440 | 33,913 | 120,815 | 10 | Spielberg's best film to date ! | I first saw this film in the movie theater . The beginning of the Normandy landing has not left my mind . It is one of the most spectacular introduction to the film . You have a cast that includes Spielberg's favorite actor , Tom Hanks , Matt Damon , Paul Giamati , one of my personal favorites-Rolf Saxon in a non-speak... |
490,017 | 33,913 | 640,600 | 10 | Think Positive ! | Carol Burnett delivers her best performance as the miserable Eunice Harper Higgins in this episode . When her nephew Buzz comes in with news and help about the power of positive thinking in an audiotape , Eunice reluctantly buys a tape player and listens to it . Believing in the tape's message , she manages to get a sm... |
490,684 | 33,913 | 98,837 | 10 | Absolutely Hysterical ! | This show is Britain's greatest export since Faulty Towers . Patricia Routledge is truly a great physical comedienne to the like of Lucille Ball . Her character , Hyacinth , is one of a kind creation by Harold Snoad . He deserves all the kudos for creating a show with such intelligent humor about the class and family .... |
490,107 | 33,913 | 640,588 | 10 | Classic Mama's Family ! | I loved Mama's Family when it remembers the past . In this episode , Mama wants to clean the attic . Since everybody has an excuse but Buzz , he assists and asks her about her thirtieth birthday party . Mama remembers being younger and with three kids , Ellen , Eunice , and Vint . The kids who play younger versions of ... |
489,915 | 33,913 | 640,590 | 10 | Be ready for Mama's girls ! | Aunt Effie needs to exercise according to her potbelly chain-smoking doctor . Mama has some suggestions but they don't work until Iola brings by tap-dancing shoes of her mother who can't because the class runs during her soap opera . Effie remind Thelma of her tap dancing days . With interest , they decide to enroll in... |
490,119 | 33,913 | 338,348 | 10 | Classic Christmas Film ! | Chris Van Allsburg best selling children's book is considered by many to be classic children's literature . The film version is an animated which benefits the story further . Tom Hanks plays the narrator , producer , and the train conductor . The animation is first rate , award winning , and breathtakingly realistic as... |
489,976 | 33,913 | 65,329 | 10 | Better than the film version ! | For some people , Felix and Oscar will always be Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau but not for me . To me , it will always be Tony Randall and Jack Klugman . They always seemed perfect together . The writing was always crisp and fresh . I never thought Tony Randall was gay . Just because you socialize or befriend Rock Huds... |
489,807 | 33,913 | 1,010,048 | 10 | Absolute Best Film of the Year ! The one you can't miss ! | Truthfully , I didn't want to spend a couple of hours in a movie theater on Christmas Day but my sister wanted to see this film . It was a remarkable experience because it far exceeded my expectations . The casting was perfect with three actors playing the main role of Jamal Malik who goes from the slums of India to po... |
490,110 | 33,913 | 640,584 | 10 | Mama for Mayor ! | Mayor Tutwiller is now Ellen's boyfriend . They are a perfect match . She gets Mama to have a press conference at her home with the Mayor , the press , and the Seniors . Mama makes some comments regarding the Mayor's lack of leadership and ends up as a front-running candidate for Raytown's Mayor . In this episode , Fra... |
490,109 | 33,913 | 640,585 | 10 | Mama as Mayor ! | The second part has Mama Thelma Harper as Mayor of Raytown with a hysterical inauguration ceremony . Ellen is still with Tutwiller while her family stands firmly behind her . Of course , Mama hasn't read up on all the paperwork regarding bills , laws , and politics that go on . She attends her first meeting with the ci... |
489,843 | 33,913 | 65,335 | 10 | I just miss this show ! ! ! | Phil Donahue was the alternative to the Oprah Winfrey Show . Sometimes , all it would take to pick one over the other was the topic or show's guest . I felt Donahue was better than Oprah as a talk show host because it tackled the controversial , difficult , emotional , and celebrity guests without being so cautious as ... |
490,604 | 33,913 | 151,738 | 10 | There are lot more Josies out there ! | It is nice to see a good girl like Josie Geller finish first for a change . I am happy to watch this film . It brings back memories of high school . Rather than dwell on being unpopular and a social outcast , I now look back at my high school days fondly . I am a college graduate who is going to Graduate school to teac... |
490,729 | 33,913 | 59,026 | 10 | Still a Classic after all these years for all ages ! | What can I write about a Charlie Brown Christmas that it is still a classic around the holiday . It's still viewed by millions around the holidays whether it's aired on network television and one of the few specials to maintain a regular audience . It is right up there with It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas . W... |
489,883 | 33,913 | 640,577 | 10 | Thelma's dream comes true ! | In this first part of a two part episode , Mama wins a trip for four to Hawaii and takes Bubba , Vint and Naomi . IOla manages to tag along on her own payment to go to Hawaii . Thelma has always dreamed of going to Hawaii and actress Vicki Lawrence and her family lived in Maui after the Carol Burnett Show ended before ... |
489,917 | 33,913 | 640,568 | 10 | Married or Not ? Just Imagine ! | In this episode with Joseph Campanella as the teacher and Amy Benedict as Bubba's girlfriend , the family imagines what life would be like if Mama married her teacher . Just think of the film Rebecca to give you an idea . Iola imagines herself married to Vint . In that scenario , Iola and Naomi switch roles completely ... |
490,436 | 33,913 | 103,241 | 10 | It's not the patient that's going crazy but the doctor ! | This film will make you smile and laugh . Bob Murray is brilliantly funny and wonderful as Bob Wiley , the compulsive addictive man who is afraid of germs and people . His relationship with the wonderful Dr . Leo Marvin played wonderfully brilliant by Richard Dreyfuss is great as well . I can't forget the supporting ca... |
490,106 | 33,913 | 640,574 | 10 | Uncle Roy visits ! | Uncle Roy played brilliantly by Jaws ' Murray Hamilton is an old sailor who returns home to see his brother on his birthday . He doesn't know that Carl has passed on . Instead , he brings stories , tall tales , and himself to Mama's house as well as oysters or some seafood for them to enjoy . Of course , the episode be... |
490,108 | 33,913 | 640,565 | 10 | Quiet in the Courtroom ! | When Mama's vacuum cleaner is broke , she uses her daughter-in-law to vacuum the rug which is a family heirloom . It also turns out that a key which belong to Naomi was on the rug which ruined her vacuum cleaner and the rug as well . Well , Naomi and Mama decide to take it to court . Michael Constantine is memorable as... |
490,619 | 33,913 | 640,555 | 10 | Probably one of the best if not memorable episodes ! | I think Betty White's voice must have been hurting while she was filming this episode . It was a bit coarse at times and not like it normally is . As Ellen , she is now divorced but she has returned from traveling the world and showing slides of her trip to her long-suffering family . Then one night , she decides to go... |
489,920 | 33,913 | 640,551 | 10 | Mama's Problem Child ! | When the Harpers get home from their weekly church service , they talk about the boy causing all the trouble . It turns out to be Reverend Meecham's grandson , Eugene . The Meechams played by Earl Boen and Anne Haney stop by to ask the Harpers to look after Eugene for the afternoon while the Reverend goes to the hospit... |
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