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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Rebecca Hall,
Elizabeth Keener,
Elise Ivy,
Catherine Keener,
Josh Pais,
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"Please Give" is the story of a husband and wife who butt heads with
the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in apartment the
couple owns, how things are intertwined and how circumstances
eventually gets to them in both right and wrong way.Cast-wise, pretty good. Oliver Platt is very likable as the cool and
flirty husband, with Catherine Keener playing his ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Starring:
Jeff Bridges,
Lauren Ambrose,
Lois Smith,
Domhnall Gleeson,
Welker White,
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Matthew Broderick,
Virginia Madsen,
Alan Alda,
Jimmy Bennett,
Louis C.K.,
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Maybe Diminished Capacity isn't "all that and a bag of chips," as a
friend of mine is fond of saying. But I'll tell you what, it's pretty
funny. I think I heard more laughing than anything I've seen at
Sundance since Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. That bodes
well for the box office prospects of this film.Alan Alda gives a terrific performance as Rollie ...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Famke Janssen,
Jaymie Dornan,
Rip Torn,
Matt Ross,
Lois Smith,
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Nice character study of a female pool player whose life is going in
smaller and smaller circles and simply wants out, but knows no way to
get out.Excellent performances from Famke Janssen who brings a real underplayed
performance, and particularly Rip Torn, who I normally tolerate - as it
always seems to be a variation of the MIB character - here he plays the
pool hall owner an...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Amanda Peet,
Dermot Mulroney,
Sarah Paulson,
Blair Brown,
Alison Elliott,
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Dermot Mulroney delivers a spectacular performance in Griffin and
Phoenix, which premiered on Lifetime this evening. Mulroney is Griffin,
a New Yorker who learns he has cancer and has but a year or two at the
most to live. Griffin meets Phoenix (Amanda Peet, at her best) while
taking a class at a university, and he pursues her, not telling her he
has cancer. As the two grow clo...
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Genres:
Biography
Crime
Drama
History
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Adrien Brody,
Diane Lane,
Ben Affleck,
Bob Hoskins,
Robin Tunney,
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As someone who has spent a number of years preparing the definitive
biography of actor George Reeves, I approached this film with great
trepidation. I had previously turned down several offers for the film
rights to my own book because I felt it unlikely that those projects
would result in a film truthful to the essence of the man I had come to
know so well. All I can say is th...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Elizabeth Reaser,
Lois Smith,
Patrick Heusinger,
Stephen Pelinski,
Tim Guinee,
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Sweet Land touched my heart. My roots are from the same farming
background as Olaf and Inge's. Seeing them brought back stories and
memories of my own growing up and family history. It slowed down the
pace for just a little while and brought back into focus what should
really matter in life--and that is the people you journey though it
with. The story is simple and yet it is fa...
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Genres:
Drama
History
Romance
Starring:
Hilary Swank,
Margo Martindale,
Anjelica Huston,
Frances O'Connor,
Lois Smith,
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Genres:
Action
Drama
Thriller
Adventure
Starring:
Helen Hunt,
Bill Paxton,
Cary Elwes,
Jami Gertz,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
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Twister, one of the most successful movies of the 90's, mainly due to
it's special effects and a lot of people's want for a natural disaster
movie that is fun to watch, this was an extremely popular movie. I was
only 11 when the movie was released and I was absolutely in love with
it, in fact right after the movie was done, I wanted to become a storm
chaser. That...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Starring:
Susan Sarandon,
Sean Penn,
Robert Prosky,
Raymond J. Barry,
R. Lee Ermey,
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I'm astonished how a filmmaker notorious for his political
left-wing fervor could make such a subtle, non-sanctimonious
picture. If you're for capital punishment, you'll still
be
for it after seeing this. If you're against capital punishment,
you'll still be against it. But whatever your stance is,
this
movie will, at the very least, make you reflect on why you
feel...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Winona Ryder,
Anne Bancroft,
Ellen Burstyn,
Kate Nelligan,
Alfre Woodard,
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When Berkeley graduate student Finn decides to spend some time away
from her live-in boyfriend, and moves in with her grandmother and great
aunt for the summer, while finishing her master's thesis, she gets an
important and heart-warming lesson about love and commitment. Finn's
grandmother and great aunt are members of a quilting bee, and their
group (whose members have known e...
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Genres:
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Michael Douglas,
Robert Duvall,
Barbara Hershey,
Tuesday Weld,
Rachel Ticotin,
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Falling Down is the kind of film that has much more more happening than
many of us want to know about. It is disguised simply as a film about
an apparent nut who goes out and tries to right the wrongs that have
been done to him and in his trek across Los Angeles he becomes an
anti-hero. While that may be true to an extent, read more into it and you can see
a film that tries to ...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Glenn Close,
Christopher Walken,
Lexi Randall,
Christopher Bell,
Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
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This sequel follows two years behind "Sarah, Plain and Tall." And I loved
it even better! The mail-order bride from Maine, is now part of the
Witting
family. She and Jacob have fallen in love and his two young children have
truly become her own. Their simple, but rich life on the Kansas prairie
is
threatened by a terrible drought. One by one their friends and neighbors...
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Genres:
Drama
Comedy
Starring:
Kathy Bates,
Mary Stuart Masterson,
Mary-Louise Parker,
Jessica Tandy,
Cicely Tyson,
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This is truly a beautiful film.Well written and superbly acted it tugs at the heartstrings harder than
almost any other movie. The way it sets up an obvious story line and
then like a gentle roller-coaster suddenly takes you in another
direction is unequalled in this type of film.There are so many points of genuine sadness and whenever you think you
have guessed the story you sudde...
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Genres:
Drama
Thriller
Starring:
Michael Douglas,
Glenn Close,
Anne Archer,
Ellen Hamilton Latzen,
Stuart Pankin,
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There are a handful of movies out there that have become so
ingrained in our collective dialogue as an American society, it's
practically a crime to have not seen them. If you haven't experienced the
joy of Casablanca, you probably haven't seen from where "Here's looking at
you, kid" originally came. Ever heard someone make jokes about quarter
pounders with cheese in France? Th...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Jodie Foster,
Cherie Currie,
Marilyn Kagan,
Kandice Stroh,
Scott Baio,
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Jack Nicholson,
Karen Black,
Billy Green Bush,
Fannie Flagg,
Sally Struthers,
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This film is a classic because it operates and works on every level
imaginable, a truly evocative film. Other posters have elucidated upon
and discussed the musicology of it, and the significance of Chopin.
I'll take their word for it, and not go there. That's out of my league.
And, as others have noted, the film is an exploration and study of
character, which it certainly is. ...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Julie Harris,
James Dean,
Raymond Massey,
Burl Ives,
Richard Davalos,
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First I'll throw in my two cents on an issue I wish I didn't have to
comment on. Almost everyone knows that East of Eden is based on the
novel by John Steinbeck. Although I'm more of a fan of fantastic and
surreal literature, Steinbeck and Hemingway are probably my two
favorite realist authors. East of Eden is an epic masterpiece, well
worth reading. It's also close to 200,000 ...
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