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Mr. Mullan was melodramatic in his role of an ambitious footman, and to make him the "romantic" lead in the process was just hysterical!
Poor handled material about a real story concerning a young woman (Williams) who has all her data and her identity too stole by an ambitious and ill minded secretary (Sciorra).
Ruth was no ambitious tramp conniving people out of work so she could take their place but I guess it made a better story.
The film is an ambitious project which self-destructs in the process of trying to do too much.
She being one of the greatest of all actresses, or even actors, at the innate endowment of physically, mentally and emotionally residing in a character builds a rivetingly ambitious and combustible character that takes charge of herself and simply does not make a good follower at all and is whirled from early in her life by her independent attributes to have a career in the arts despite society doing all they can to tame her.
"The Jayhawkers" was released in 1959 and starred Jeff Chandler as an ambitious person eager to control pre-War Kansas, and Fess Parker has to try and stop him in his scheme.
It's a languid and tempestuous poem of a movie, told in a non-linear way by the extremely ambitious Julio Medem.
The highly ambitious script (co-written by director Cokeliss) intertwines the premarital nightmares of young virgin Diana with the blurry childhood traumas of punk-girl Jenny and, most of the time, you haven't got a clue what's really going on.
With this seemly arrogant but honest message showing on the screen, the film opens at a dark Edinburgh cemetery where two vicious figures lift a cadaver from its grave... "The Flesh and the Fiends" tells the true story of William Burke and William Hare, corpse-suppliers to the ambitious surgeon and university professor Dr. Robert Knox.
Dinner With Friends is an ambitious project.
Unfortunately, the movie is a bit too ambitious for it's own good and leaves you thinking "huh?" in certain parts, but overall, I'd recommend this to anyone who likes psychological horror.
The real-life disaster was the inspiration for Frank Capra's Dirigible (Capra and studio boss Harry Cohn were both huge admirers of Mussolini in the early days), but this ambitious Russian-Italian co-production is best remembered, if at all, for either its catastrophic box-office failure or its unusual framing structure.
This is a very ambitious attempt to deal with themes of identity, child abuse, guilt, redemption and acceptance (all wrapped around James Joyce and his Ulysses, for Christ sake!)--with almost none of the requisite writing or directing talent to back up all that ambition.
The director appears to have relied upon his good cast, who undoubtedly came aboard due to the ambitious script.
"Quelques Jours en Septembre" is a very ambitious first film for Argentinian author Santiago Amigorena and it shows.
The crew exists of a reluctant reporter who considers his trip to Burundi as a punishment for ruining a previous assignment, a new and ambitious female reporter who desperately wants to prove herself, the 'token-black-guy' cameraman, the overly self-confident expert who thinks he's even better than Steve Irwin (RIP) and of course the introvert guide who has a personal score to settle with Gustave.
John Gordon Sinclair exudes a gawky, gangling charm as the lovesick Gregory and the rest of the cast are perfect.Jake D'Arcy is wonderful as Phil Menzies, the ambitious sports master, the brilliant Chick Murray is the pompous headteacher, Dee Hepburn is Dorothy, the confident, dedicated new member of the soccer team, Gregory is besotted with her.
On the one hand, it's fairly ambitious genre-crossing, on the other the political aspects of it (although relevant) feel outdated.
In 1994, an ambitious filmmaker named Kevin Smith was left nearly dead-broke by his commitment to his low-budget debut feature, "Clerks."
In fact, technically and narratively, this film is even more ambitious that its earlier counterpart and could be said to be something like Zhang Yimou experimenting on the gangster genre.
To simply tag "Ganja & Hess" with a label of blaxploitation would be a serious understatement, as this is probably THE most ambitious 'black' film of entire 70's decade.
It is not an ambitious movie in any sense and against that background I think it succeeds quite well.
The film is an ambitious and promising if under-edited piece.
A movie at once so ambitious and so real and so well-done...there just aren't very many in its league.
Watching his manic performance as the cocky, ambitious thug Tom Powers, I could see the precursor of decades of movie antiheroes, from Richard Widmark to Malcolm McDowell to Al Pacino.
The film is about Rahul (Khan), an ambitious guy works as an assistant of manipulative, married yet womanising businessman Siddharth (Pancholi).
Mayo did a better job here, with this threadbare, wildly ambitious play, than Wyler ever did with much better material, and I'm not sure why.
Rifles shoot tiny holes in people, the good guys never miss, and the music is far too ambitious.
The ambitious and job-conscious civil servant character is drawn in a heavy handed manner and disturbs as to the motivation of the director.
An ambitious piece of work from a man who seems to genuinely want to create original art.
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