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The film employs a uniquely stylistic form of film and sound editing, and the narration (by Sean Penn) and interviews adopt a rather genuine, unrehearsed form that is akin with the anarchic, nihilistic spirit of sidewalk surfing.
I may not have been one of the skateboard set, but I was definitely one of the observers, sitting on the curb with the old transistor radio, listening to Neil Young, watching those more brave than I ever hoped to be, as they put the spin on their surfboards on wheels, applying the tricks of Alva and Adams, hoping that maybe, just maybe for a brief moment, they'd adopt the Zephyr style.
A nice couple looking to adopt get rather suckered into adopting him and while the husband is a bit more willing to give this kid a chance the mother is not.
The plot is simple enough though as the prospective parents go to adopt this kid that they think is great by the way the orphanage is throwing a party as they depart, they soon realize they have themselves a little hellion.
When will Blockbuster adopt the "Adultry" section?
The ending - the foster parents adopt Sooner - does not redeem the depiction of animal cruelty.
The basics of the plot largely copy Richard Donner's original, and see a young couple adopt a child, which they name Delia (not Damiella or Damiana, fortunately).
This TV production of 1970 starring Susannah York and George C. Scott is another proof of how difficult it is to adopt "Jane Eyre" to the screen, and how much can go wrong in doing so.
They adopt a little girl named Delia from a convent.
Basically this is about a couple who want to adopt a second child.
At the adoption agency they meet a mouse (Stuart) and they decide to adopt him.
In "Anne of Green Gables" (1934), Marilla Cuthbert (Helen Westley) and Matthew Cuthbert (O.P. Heggie), middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from distant orphanage to help on their farm.
But the orphan sent to them is a precocious girl of 14 named Anne Shirley (Dawn Evelyn Paris-a veteran of Disney's series of "Alice" shorts who later would adopt her character's name).
When a well off, got it made couple with a nice apartment and great life get the notion to adopt this idea was tailor made for them.
For example, the Nazis did not adopt the German eagle until after they had taken power but there it is on the lectern as Hitler delivers one of his stem winders.
This is the first American film to successfully adopt the naturalistic style used by Europeans, particularly the French and Belgians, for at least a decade, and isn't it about time?
Every one should see this movie because each one of us is broken in some way and it may help us realize 1) My life isn't as bad as I thought it was and 2) How important it is to adopt a child in need.
It's nice to see that as the twins get older their movies adopt more of a "tween" edge.
They have been trying for a baby for a year and cannot conceive, they were going to adopt a baby but the birth mother changed her mind at the last minute.
It's amazing what Tavernier has been able to do with a very basic story of a French couple - Jacques Gamblin and Isabelle Carre - attempting to adopt a baby girl in Cambodia.
A rich woman wants to adopt a sweet, young street performer, but things are complicated by the latter's thieving grandfather.
Doctor Pierre Sézac (Jacques Gamblin) and his wife Géraldine (Isabelle Carré) a childless couple leave for Cambodgia to adopt one.
Oscar Wilde once said "The first purpose of life is to adopt a pose.
Hollywood really needs to adopt a Xenaphobic policy.
Both are absolutely radiant in the leads and so appealing you want to adopt them.
Just imagine if we tried to adopt Usama Bin Laden's son into our homes today, I doubt very much if this film would win an Academy Award.
Thank God I live in the Netherlands where gay people can marry, have children and even adopt children.
I'm sure that at the time, this movie was quite educational for many people like the two main characters, who thought that you adopt a baby by going to the nearest orphanage, picking out the one you like, and walking out with it.
Tarzan and Jane adopt a baby boy, the sole survivor of a plane crash.
The boy's parents perished and so Tarzan and Jane adopt the little tyke.
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