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Against him are set a selection of equally human adversaries including Tim Roth's Cunningham, obnoxious but brilliant, and John Hurt's morally bankrupt laird.
The effort for realism intersects with the dark ground of our bankrupt culture.
Two immigrant brothers from Italy try to keep their restaurant in 1950s America from going bankrupt.
It is difficult to identify a horror franchise that is more creatively bankrupt than the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
I mean he just got back from Russia and he finds out that his idiot friend, Paulie, signed some paper, which made the Balboa family bankrupt!
Francis Ford Coppola and Zoetrope Studios went nearly bankrupt for this movie and it's worth every tear they must have shed!
Completely morally bankrupt, but likable.
This movie is, of course, artistically bankrupt.
The curator of the aquarium who want bankrupt because of him?
The acting by the male leads is strong enough (mostly - the 'why do I have to get so technical?' scene falters a bit) to make you invest emotionally in Dylan and Jez' quest despite the fact that - all soft-heartedness aside - they are two lying, selfish, close to morally bankrupt con-merchants.
The best thing that ever happened to the movie industry was Cannon going bankrupt.
America, please give up on this genre and this director before we all go bankrupt!!
It didn't help that this was the last film from the nearly dead, and already bankrupt, Cannon Films.
Unfortunately, their first two films Happily Ever After and Pinocchio and the Emperor of Night were so disliked by critics that Filmation lost its reputation and eventually went bankrupt.
Then just after the NY Film Critics gave the film their coveted award for the year, its distributer went bankrupt, killing the tiny promotion budget, and the film was pulled.
It's a ridiculous and violent time-capsule capturing the nearly bankrupt NYC of the early 1970s...and it's tough to beat that Bobby Womack music.
First of it's kind and SADLY short lived as it went bankrupt and was demolished 6 years after it's closing.
A bankrupt warlord, after all, cannot buy weapons or bribe people to maintain their loyalty.
Indeed, it would be unsustainable for Venezuela, nearly bankrupt owing to falling oil prices, to remain on its anti-American course, while the Castro brothers themselves have reconciled with the “gringos.”
The country was bankrupt and His Majesty’s colonial subjects were growing restive.
At the heart of the House Republican strategy is a simple idea: all financial firms should be able to go bankrupt without damaging the rest of the economy and without the government becoming involved.
In September 2008, Lehman Brothers did go bankrupt – and no form of government support was provided.
The opposition inherited a bankrupt country whose institutions are in ruins.
When sub-Saharan African countries gained independence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, their leaders inherited bankrupt states with no access to international capital markets.
Many conglomerates went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, having made excessive and unprofitable investments.
Derivatives exacerbated the crisis, particularly after the portfolio of the bankrupt Lehman Brothers, then the world’s fourth-largest investment bank, was liquidated.
The bankers and traders of the latest crisis responded rationally to compensation and bonus schemes that allowed them to assume a lot of leverage and ensured large bonuses, but that were almost guaranteed to bankrupt a large number of financial institutions in the end.
Similarly, African-American leaders sometimes joke wryly about gaining the reins of municipal power just when a city is about to go bankrupt.
Lehman Brothers, of course, went bankrupt – and it was the spreading effects of that failure that caused so much damage in September 2008 and subsequently.
Countries that chose socialism all went bankrupt.
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