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The movie attempts to function on many different levels and crosses genre boundaries at will.
Being old enough to remember the Berlin Wall when it was still used to contain a country, this film gives you a dark insight into the grim incarceration of East Berliners, and their desperate attempts to escape, no matter what the cost.
Several attempts at truancy later the adoptive parents take her to Sri Lanka to try to find her birth mother.
Perhaps the budget and the script writing is the departments where i feel most attempts have failed.
This film attempts to describe the horror faced by one particular family - a common narrative device - in the atomic bomb world of Hiroshima.
However, they are completely unheard of in the West, so this documentary attempts to rectify that situation.
Attempts to buy it were also futile (I don't believe it's on tape or DVD).
A humble and spiritual priest (Francisco Rabal in a wonderful performance) attempts to live by the principles of Christianity but is cast out of his church for helping a local prostitute by giving her a shelter after she had committed a murder.
Farscape is the best sci-fi show period, for one main reason, everything the show attempts, it does very well.
Mercedes has hooked up with a married and washed-up actor, Harry Harrelson (Harvey Keitel), who at one time had performed in a television Western series during the 1970s, and seldom since, accepting him as her lover, in part from loneliness, and as well from a hope that film parts will be coming her way because of his "contacts", but these latter are of small consequence as Harry is simply self-delusional in his attempts at recovering what he perceives as past cinematic renown.
This one is about an accident at a Neuclear Reactor and of the attempts to cover it up.
There were many twists and turns in Mr. Cobb's attempts to clean up city hall.
Like when Buster orders molasses from butcher boy Fatty, Fatty makes Buster come back to pay, Buster says he put it in the bucket that has the molasses, Fatty dumps molasses in Buster's hat and takes money, Buster takes hat back on head as it gets stuck, Fatty attempts to remove it while molasses fall to floor, Buster's feet are now stuck on floor and so on.
The film is also successful in the sense that it doesn't allow character or plot to dominate it - it is simply a tale of survival, that attempts to depict the battle mainly from the ordinary (German) soldier's point of view.
Still, Young is good enough to make you wish someone had cast him in a detective drama instead of "Father Knows Best," which he hated and which drove him to alcoholism and suicide attempts.
The owner would not part with the copy after any number of attempts to beg, bribe, and cry my way to owning the tape.
Gary Busey attempts to capture this aspect of Buddy's persona.
The technique is essentially the same, or at least very similar, in this film detailing on the one hand a trial of dissidents in California in the (apparently) near future, and on the other the attempts of a group of convicted "criminals" to slog through 50 miles of desert to win their freedom in a government-run "punishment park" as an alternative to prison.
As a big Dostoyevsky fan, I had always been disappointed with Hollywood's halfhearted attempts to get into the Russian romantic aesthetic -- case in point, Yul Brynner as Dmitri Karamazov.
Two city guys are driving through Hicksville USA when a rusty monster truck suddenly appears and repeatedly attempts to run them off the road.Having picked up a mysterious blonde hitchhiker,they pull up at a truck-stop full of redneck amputees,one of whom warns them of 'the demon out there'.
It really attempts to show what the dinosaurs had to contend with in their daily lives.
Mickey boards his long time companion Minnie Mouse aboard the train as they frolic about, while Mickey attempts to impress Minnie.
Oh, I made a few attempts to learn what all the fuss was about; I'd watched several television productions -- notably parts of Wagner's Ring Cycle on public television -- hoping to understand other people's fascination with the art form.
The LAPD were in their ill advised attempts to arrest him, but the other agencies were portrayed positively.
While Dean attempts to rekindle his past love affair, more towns people turn up as roadkill.
After several failed attempts to brake the rebels back, he sends his top cop to assassinate the rebels.
But while NOTORIOUS AND SPELLBOUND were liked, the audiences were turned off by Hitch's attempts at experimentation: his use of a dream sequence by Salvator Dali in SPELLBOUND was acceptable, as was the setting among psychiatrists.
Never attempts to be an "event".
For example when the wife tells her husband that in her childhood she was abused by her father, and then her husband says "how can someone abuse someone like you", and then he attempts to attach her on the bed for sexual games :D Very funny !
They both ask him if they can be cured, and the doctor attempts to devise a way for each.
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