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Eva is a practical woman who is getting fed up with her husband's lack of ambition.
Has anyone ever cared to stop and think about the ambition and dedication Mr.Waters possesses.
To gather your best friends up and to create a movie just to gross out thousands of viewers all over shows this man has a great deal of ambition inside himself.
Not a film of entertainment, but of real lives & limited ambition for the working class in 60's.
Her real ambition is to marry Eddie and have a baby.
She is so evil that everyone else pales next to her blind ambition and ruthlessness to rule the valley and everyone in it.
Peter Stormare's performance as a gay Shakespearean actor is absolutely award worthy and the film in general does a good job at showing the hopelessness and laugh-ability of self-centered ambition.
Mark comes across as his own worse enemy: his childlike ambition and optimism -- which I admire -- is undermined by his apparent artistic ineptitude as well as his bizarre fiscal expectations.
It's April 8, 1994, each of the characters are in their "mid 20's" and pursuing some kind of artistic ambition (acting, music, film, writing) when they learn of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain's suicide.
It seems that the people who made it had no other ambition than to create the French equivalent of "Dirty Harry".
Haje is indeed a whiny heroine and Lynch is too over the top(as usual) and the film lacks the inspiration or ambition to be as fun-bad as it's hilarious predecessor.
Its ambition is to show three creatures from the giant octopus to the giant lobster trying to have the upper hand on the humans.
The movie centers around a surgeon whose life's ambition is to bring the dead...back to life.
Any allusions to other old Marilyn Monroe movies did not enhance the viewing of Blonde Ambition at all.
A well-intentioned idea gets crushed to smithereens under the weight of its own gargantuan ambition.
The daughter is a 17 year-old shallow skank whose main ambition in life is bedding famous men and becoming a dancing nyphette (complete with lots of "booty shaking").
When I was seventeen I genuinely believed Elvis to be the king of rock and roll, and not only did I wish to see all 31 of his "character" movies, but it was my ambition to own them, too.
His movie has a lot of ambition and his intentions were obviously complex and drawn from very deep within, but it's so impersonal.
The only thing it has going for it is ambition and multiple cameos from horror legends (none on screen for terribly long).
Nemesis 2 doesn't even have that ambition, it's a cheap rip off of The Terminator with a muscled female who is so low on acting ability she makes Olivier Gruner seem like a master thespian and the action sequences lack the explosive scope that was the main selling point of the original.
The inclusion of obviously underage characters is appalling and the obvious racist sentiments (anti-White) are blatant and unsettling - society cannot be blamed for people who have chosen drugs, unemployment and rejection of education on the part of the film's "cast" - the actions of these people are not acts of desperation, but rather a rejection of anything resembling personal ambition and a willingness to make something out of one's self.
Once again the same familiar story about a man (writer here) who sell his soul to the devil in order to have his most desired ambition in life: success.
Writer/director Larry Bishop brings a supremely hip, quirky, and original idiosyncratic sensibility to this deliciously dark and deadpan pitch-black comedy about betrayal, loyalty, and ruthless ambition run dangerously amok.
It is the story of love, both genuine and illicit, as well as overweening ambition, devotion, and the arrogance of personal tyranny.
But it's a sad sign that the BBC, which once made the likes of 'The Singing Detective', boasted of this of "possibly the best drama of the year": for there's little true originality on offer here, and the claim reveals a lack of ambition that is dreadfully disappointing.
The young deputy mayor is thus pushing the old mayor out of the way, and he derails his ambition to be the governor of New York in order to become the president of the US.
A project of serious ambition, and perhaps foolhardiness, the filmmaker is able to mend together seven tumultuous years of following around two unwieldy rock groups.
Although it has a lot to say about power, jealousy and ambition (the themes of Macbeth) in our modern world, the film works best when it is not taking itself too seriously.
The difference between memorable and awful has more to do with talent and ambition than money.
He was once in the Army but does not appear to have the slightest flicker of any ambition or any interests in life apart from doting on his small family.
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