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Brief in sentence

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I'll be brief, though the length of this video film is everything but short.
Ireland and Saxon overact wildly in their brief roles.
The prologue is a brief segment shot like a silent film - I just watched with bemusement.
Raft (West's first cinematic co-star) has a brief bit in an elevator and Regis Philbin of all people has a cameo as a reporter.
A minor bonus: Midget extraordinare Billy Curtis makes a brief cameo as a hard-dealing, justice-giving judge of the West.
So shallow and brief is the treatment of each treasure here that if you blink, you will miss one or two -- but, sadly, you will not escape the whittering of the truly appalling Dan Cruikshank whose confidence in his own narrow and banal "Little England" aesthetic judgements is such that he needs no actual expertise in casting his pearls before us.
Terry Moore from Mighty Joe Young fame has a nice role, Marjoe Gortner has an intriguing yet thin role as a doctor in league with Woronov, and the aforementioned Dyanne Thorne has a brief cameo as a patient that thinks she is an actress.
There is very little gore or violence, a few bites, one brief cannibalism sequence and the most graphic part of the film when someone has the skin on their back sliced off.
Gruner seems to fall prey to the Van Damme syndrome of getting beaten to a pulp before rising to the occasion with brief flurries of energy.
The only really good scenes were given to Alan Rickman, playing the cuckolded husband, and such scenes are regrettably brief.
This is the only Allen movie that both Farrow and Diane Keaton appear in (she has a very brief cameo singing a song in a night club.)
Note the brief but significant appearance, at the beginning of the movie, by Hugh Reilly, who went on to star in the Lassie TV series.
One of the few bright spots was the brief chemistry between Tim Curry and Ed Begley Jnr, bringing back fond memories of Tales of the Crypt, when Curry played three members of a family, with Begley playing a salesman.
It is quite clear that having Karloff hosts these brief stories, it caused people to take an interest in viewing them on TV.
In one of the stories, George Hamilton was very young and had a very brief role to perform.
I did not see too clearly that he "wants to be normal" any other way than by his own brief comment about it:-).
I will try to be brief about this film because I can't imagine anyone will ever really watch it.
Speaking of idiots, Guybrush Threepwood is back and after a brief skirmish out on the high seas he and his wife return home to find out someone has taken over as governor of the island.
Of course, everyone is a ghost and after a brief stay in this netherworld, Templeton finds that he is unwanted.
Among the females, Edna Mae Harris makes an impression in her brief role of Zeba who, after her boyfriend gets shot, takes a shine to the one who shot him!
The actors start walking and drinking... the dolly movies... and they do a brief "walk & talk."
The Hobbit gave a brief glimpse at what could be expected for this version of The Return of the King.
Head scientist Dr. Van Fleet (a brief, but cool appearance by the always terrific James Hong) accidentally brings into our world a powerful deadly being with the scary ability to fatally use our worst fears against us.
Artie Lange, in his brief appearance, is good and his acting skills appear godlike compared to the clownish Capelli.
I'll keep this brief and straight to the point, unlike the movie.
(From Chase's brief days at Mack Sennett's Keystone studio.)
as a cult movie i say it is way below its mark.Ray Dannis(undertaker and his pals,severed arm)has a very brief role.and
Demi Moore made a few brief appearances and gave a few quick kisses to Timothy, there was some action, but nothing to write home to mom about.
I enjoyed it particularly because all of the characters from the cook to the main characters were very likable, and in spite of the brief nature of the film, I felt that they were still well developed.
The leaders, Michael Madsen and Vinnie Jones, ham it up in a couple of brief scenes a bit more than the "standard" "Beat It" rejects, and while that is marginally entertaining for about 5 seconds, it hardly makes for a worthwhile movie.
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