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We then go to the streets, and see that people are selling their children because they can't afford to take care of them: some are even begging to take their daughters for free, because daughters are not worth much in this society.
i don't think a movie with a budget like this could afford "good" actors or effects so they worked with what they had.
However, because it has John Cleese as Sherlock Holmes it manages to be hilarious even on a budget that couldn't afford a shoestring.
Please do not afford to miss it.
She has to stay at home since the family cannot afford a maid.
it's a subject most of us would like to ignore but we cannot afford to if there is to be a real progressive change in the way we HAVE TO be able embrace and understand diversity.some
And I was amazed..."Before Sunrise" is one of the few films who dare to talk in a rather philosophical way, wondering about the fact that in the moment of our birth, we are sentenced to death, or that it is a middling idea that fact that a couple should rest together for eternity, or that, we, humans, can afford sometimes to live in fairy-tales.
It's obvious that MGM used it's money to create a really good epic with this one in an era where they could probably afford it.
They rewrote the plot of course and did it in CGI because they couldn't afford to make it a real life action picture like I had done!
She finds that she can't afford most properties she looks at, but thinks her luck has changed when she finds a fully furnished apartment for an affordable price.
Melanie tries to win the friendship of the owner of a fashion boutique by buying expensive clothing that she probably can't afford, helps her with cleaning up her apartment, only to get coldly rejected when due to a misunderstanding she dis-invites the boutique owner's boyfriend.
But surely they could afford a much higher budget and overall better actors (With the exception of Lou Gosset Jr and a few others - indeed the fact that they can keep a straight and serious demeanor through out the film shows that those few actors really are outstanding in their craft) but I suspect this film is aimed to appeal to the truly stupid people.
If Directors Michael Chang, Ben Jones, Ciro Nieli, Alex Soto, and Matt Youngberg weren't even able to afford to make their animated show...animated!
The Red Skull is only the Red Skull for about five minutes, then because I guess they could not afford to keep making him up so they make him look stupid for the rest of the film.
Look, I can't afford them fancy Tivos, I hate turning on the TV and seeing that dipass Frasier.
It looks like they could not afford real actors so they used children as drug dealers....
I doubt anyone could afford to produce this miniseries today.
This movie is simply an Italian knock-off of a James Bond movie, except you couldn't afford any of the trademarks.
I guess the budget couldn't afford a tripod.
Never mind the quality of the picture, it's all that we can afford.
Oh, yes I forgot to mention the "special effects"... it looks like they couldn't afford a smoke machine so smoke is created by a guy with a cigar off-screen.
The good bits: any time Scooby (and therefore Shaggy, who Matthew Lilliard gets to a 'T') is on screen (and it isn't as much as you'd think it would be, couldn't they afford the computer time?).
The worse part of the show are the birthday girls, if the slight possibility of the party being too expensive and it having to be made cheaper arises, even though it is still 10 times more than most people could afford, they cry a bloody river until they get their way.
I love romantic comedies, and if I want to see more one movie a year, I can't afford standards.
I consider myself pretty lucky that my parents can afford to throw me a Sweet 16 party.
The problem was that these companies were operated on shoestring budgets and they simply couldn't afford to make polished and high quality films.
Too often, when their political toadying days wind down, they join important New York law firms or become Washington "consultants," toadying in only a slightly different milieu, and able now to directly afford their bespoke suits and strip steak dinners at The Capital Grille.
wow that alone makes this story sad, then to make it better she goes dressed as a hooker and well what do you know she ends up being to poor to afford dinner for her kids and gets them a cola, wow.
I would put stuff on lay-way as graduate students could not afford the luxury of buying something faster.
I guess we did not realize how little we had as graduate students, since we were even able to afford an off-campus apartment!
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