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The roar drowns out his girlfriend's (Ann Dvorak) feeble attempts to get her share of his attention.
Sam vanishes from a biker bar parking lot, to Dean's dismay and, with the help of a potentially friendly female police officer, he attempts to track down his brother.
Throughout the film, there are moments that transcend its obvious attempts to manipulate its audience, but it never rises to sublime status, like "Cinema Paradiso" did by tying a personal story to the evolution of a society that lost its innocence and the ability to dream.
Wilbur, played by Jamie Sives, is despondent over the the death of his parents, and he has made numerous attempts at suicide to end his pain.
Film makers have made other attempts like this and they always seem to go wrong.
Kirk Douglas is a washed up studio chief who attempts to gather together a group of one-time com-padres to help him with his comeback.
I have appreciated some attempts by some newcomers to the genre.
Straight out of the exploitation/educational film camp, "Delinquent Daughters" attempts to instruct and admonish parents for the 'Alarming Increase of Juvenile Delinquency' as touted in a newspaper headline quote from J. Edgar Hoover.
So far, all attempts to make the extinct Megalodon into the next big monster (a la T-Rex from "Jurassic Park" or Bruce from "Jaws") have failed miserably.
Kit becomes a young "Cyrano" with her adult friend (perhaps the 19 year old gopher who Kit was put in contact with by her brother at the beginning of the film) attempts to keep the ruse going, with the publisher and the co-workers at the newspaper in the dark until the film's climax.
Besson makes no attempts to sacrifice his film in the ways of Hollywood convention, and he proves that the days of female-driven action cinema are not yet dead.
The concept of a serial killer with supernatural powers who desperately attempts to transfer his murderous spirit into a new body after his own execution is dreadfully unoriginal and already featured (more or less) in at least four movies, namely Wes Craven's "Shocker", the atrocious third entry in the "House" series, the criminally underrated film "Prison" and the overall lamentable film "The Chair".
The plot revolves around a girl from New York City who moves to somewhere in Jersey and then attempts a new school.
Numerous attempts to get to her, with no regard to his own safety, fail.
As someone who has an interest and appreciation of animation, I can say that this is the first film I've seen that successfully integrates computer-generated animation and traditional animation (and I've seen many attempts).
No doubt wary after his previous ventures, Solondz attempts to circumvent some of the criticisms that less savvy viewers are bound to make.
A muddled hodge podge of perverted sexuality and half-assed attempts at dark humor, this film is like a man in a darkened gas-station bathroom, randomly spraying pure waste until he hears the sound of a resonate splash.
Either George goes back to pot before his next stand-up or I shall have to take it up to tolerate his new very dark attempts at humor.
I was especially annoyed with all the self-referential, "look, we're in a movie" attempts at humor.
Olivier, who runs a cult of Satan worshippers, feels James would be a good person to have on board and attempts to convince James to join him and his organisation.
Even his attempts to inject humor are forced and heavy-handed, with the idiotic scenes of Bones carrying the heads of his victims and having them carry on an interminably pointless conversation.
The acting was so bad, I thought that I was watching my old high school's bad attempts at serious drama.
Timmy himself spouts sexist attempts at humour 'What a knocker factory!' with such aplomb, there is a certain weird genius to Askwith's performance.
It's the only cute thing in the movie, even though it is all about her unsuccessful attempts at controlling the weather.
Oversentimental, disconnected, melodramatic drivel that plays on what some people think of as Filipino stereotypes, perpetuates them, and then attempts to put them together in one group setting.
He's not a good guy, in spite of the fact that the movie half-heartedly attempts to make him seem so, since he is trying to get money together for his parents to replace their home, which got blown away by a tornado.
Chuck Jones's 'Old Glory' is an totally serious Warner Bros. cartoon which typifies Jones's early attempts to emulate Disney in its cutesy approach.
A patriotic message cartoon, it features an apple-cheeked Porky Pig as a schoolboy who is bored by his attempts to learn the pledge of allegiance until the ghost of Uncle Sam explains why it is so important.
A woman gets her face pulled through some jagged glass in a scene that pathetically attempts to re-create the eye-piercing scene from Fulci's Zombie.
Often the attempts to delve into these relationships (of conjoined or even identical twins) has been produced by non-twins and has assumed some kind of pathology--something either incestuous, or morbidly dependent.
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