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The film (if not its subject's life) is a catalogue of clichés: The miserable childhood, the penniless adulthood, the difficult love life, the threat of insanity, the critical incomprehension, the refusal to 'sell out' (possibly the most long-lived of romantic clichés, it's still thought to be relevant in the world of rock and roll) and the god-damned post mortem vindication are all present and accounted for.
If you have fond memories of "Here's Lucy" from your childhood, the easiest way to retain them is never to re-watch this series.
The film carries you through the stages of basically a pathological liars life from childhood problems into adulthood very quickly, then gets you to the meat of the story.
Watermelons, boats, boats from watermelon rinds - clearly this is a film about childhood!
As soon as I heard it, I hearkened back to my childhood watching those old Warner Brothers cartoons, and even though I can't remember which one it was, I can clearly hear in my mind the words "Which way did he go George, which way did he go?"
This exquisitely made film is a Victorian genre painting come to life.Mary Lennox is Thomas Cooper Gotch's "The child enthroned".The late 19th century middle and upper classes were obsessed by the idea of children and childhood,a preoccupation encouraged by the high infant/mother mortality rate due to paucity of medical knowledge and the lack of what today would be considered even the most basic hygienic practices.
We adults know, wink-wink, the folly of the tiger and bear, but we love such stories and we crave expectation-building stories like an addiction, she seems to say...and thereby in childhood learning sets the stage for evaluating the ensuing adult ventures toward their own mirage-like horizons.
It's a coming of age story, centering on three childhood friends: Caleb (Jeremy Luno), Montag (Michael Hampton), and Swank (Nikitas Manikatos).
In the year 2002, a young Californian director named Lucky McKee too the independent film scene by surprise with a modest tale of horror and suspense named "May", the tale of a young woman traumatized by her difficult childhood.
Since childhood they have conned people out of their money by taking them on some mysterious adventure.
When I finally surpassed that dark age in my childhood, I decided to see one again just for plain stupidity.
A girl is trained from childhood to avenge the death of her father and the brutal rape of her mother.
Gabriel (Ian McKellan) is a hospitalized mental patient whose terrors of childhood abuse has driven him away from society and into the forest where he has constructed a kingdom of Neverwas.
It would have been tempting for the writer/director to include some sort of exposition of his childhood and/or his relationship with his mother and other women, either as flashback or monologue.
In my childhood days of course, this used to be one of my favourite kids shows that I'd ever seen.
Casper Van Dien, the hot young actor who starred in Paul Verhoeven's hit, "Starship Troopers," is Tarzan, who, on the eve of the wedding to his beautiful fiancée, Jane (Jane March), is confronted by a vision of the destruction of his childhood home.
What makes the teenage years so vexing is how a young person's line of thinking evolves from the logical, unadultered mannerisms of childhood to the obstinate, interpretive idiosyncrasy of adulthood.
It is a good escape to childhood fantasies (especially from someone who had a rough childhood and who often wished something like this would have happened for real!)
If you had a childhood you longed to escape from, see it, too.
Jeff Bridges' character he portrays is a cheerful, mind-mannered guy who dreamed of making these autos since his childhood.
It invokes a nostalgia that will make you regress back to your childhood.
The cast is put to superb use in this heartfelt tribute to the simple glorious joys of an ordinary childhood.
It is strange that he tells her the story because she has been a part of his life since childhood.
Synopsis: "Na Nan has known best pal Dong Mi and Jung Joon since childhood, and now the trio shares the ups and downs of their turbulent single lives together.
I know most of Sergiu Nicolaesu's work and somehow in my early childhood back in Romania I enjoyed it.
There are many TV shows I remember from my childhood, but of them all, this was perhaps my favourite!
In more recent years, I have sometimes rewatched episodes on tape, and have very recently managed to see almost every episode on the Internet, many of which I never saw in my childhood, maybe even the majority of them.
I picked this up in a cheap DVD dump bin, having remembered it from childhood - and wow has it dated.
With elements of revenge between Charlie and his childhood bully which reminded me of the 1991 remake of Cape Fear and elements of admiration and chivalry the film is very dynamic.
It brings back memories of childhood from when my parents took me to see Dinosaurs Alive at the zoo.
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