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Mildred Pierce, who realize their ambitions by fierce determination and willpower.
The low ambitions of the movie are clearly on display when the terrorists hold the Vice-President hostage and he has to call the White House to beg them to transfer some money.
Reasonably effective horror/science-fiction a la "Alien" is fairly well done given its limited ambitions.
You can chalk up the large subject to the ambitions of youth, but Herzog does an amazingly good job.
We don't always see the beauty in the world because we're wrapped up in our 'blind' ambitions, and see it only in one light "what can this world do for me!!!".
If anything, it brutally contrasts our ambitions and hopes to the often bitter truth.
Deep Water examines the pressures and ambitions on an ordinary man in a compelling documentary.
The Japanese have always had incredible ambitions in their fantasy movies.
A small movie with small ambitions and small appeal--sorry, but it just didn't make it with me, and I love good, small films!
Anyway, the movie seems not to have a lot of artistic ambitions.
When an expedition is sent to Cambodia to discover the trick to making zombies after World War I, one of the members decides to use the knowledge for his own evil ambitions.
Her husband was born here, and she is opening up a piano school, but also has ambitions to own some land with the insurance money she received from the death.
The innocent have always had to suffer for the ambitions of the mighty.
Only a few years later, Hitler would siege Germany and begin his plans to take over the world, France being a casualty of his ambitions.
Hiralal has ambitions to travel to england and become a barrister just like his dad but his own dad refuses to grant him a scholarship offered to his family by a businessman and instead gives it away to another person saying that the scholarship should not be limited to his family and should be open to the most deserving student living in colony.
She never fulfilled her ambitions, and is drawn back to the town she left by an eager letter from her daughter informing her that she too has taken a liking to the theatre (a high school production, that is).
He claims that soldiers above all yearn for peace, yet he obviously glories in war; he consistently denies any political ambitions, yet almost everything he does is deliberately used to boost himself as a presidential candidate; he obviously believes that soldiers under his command have to follow his orders to the letter, yet he himself deliberately defies orders from the President of the United States; he shows great respect for other cultures (particularly in the Philippines and Japan) and yet is completely out of touch with his own country.
Gretchen Mol does a superb job of portraying the scandalous Bettie, who was a small town girl with acting ambitions and a great body.
When I was born, this television series was the number one show on T.V.!! America epitomized the feat of the ultimate fatted calf country with big ambitions, limitless potential, and a very comfortable economy!!
Characters are constantly on the move, and although as a viewer you kinda always remain an outsider, it's still possible to feel the suspense coming from certain decisions and ambitions of the characters.
George Raft as Steve Brodie, the carefree, dancing gambler who can never refuse a dare, is pitted against the lumbering, sentimental, Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery).A soft touch for every panhandler, Connors impulsively adopts waifs and strays, notably runaway orphan "Swipes" (Jackie Cooper, complete with kittens!) and the homeless Lucy Calhoun, an out-of-town innocent with ambitions to become a writer.
Superb character actor Elisha Cook Jr. is again in top form as the 'little man with big ambitions.'
His right-hand man is none other than Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun (John Cusack) an equally bright individual who's ambitions are tied to his mentor and both seemed destined for higher office.
Once again Ferrara attracts big star names to a small picture with large ambitions.
But Jade has ambitions, she is determined to make something out of her life & become someone.
Screw their own ambitions.
A surreal pool scene, in which the men become entangled in the water, perfectly communicates unspoken ambitions.
This recent BBC filmed version of Dickens' "Our Mutual Friend" was a big budget project that fell far short of lofty ambitions.
Gracie's hell is her mum messing things up, her redemption is her will to take care of her family, despite her own ambitions.
An interesting saga of trials and tribulations, passions and ambitions set in Hawaii around the time of the infamous attack on Pear Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.
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