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John Cusack is also impressive as the drifter who tries to convince Natty that the open road is no place for a young girl.
When this film came out, I couldn't convince anyone to see it with me, so I had to go alone.
Things that are great do not need to convince people that they are great.
The passionate way that Billy Joe talks to and kisses his girlfriend Bobbie Lee might be interpreted as a genuine manifestation of desire, or it might be his desperate attempt to convince himself that he's heterosexual.
With a few exceptions, the acting is wooden where it is not mechanical (Andy Garcia); the exceptions include Louis Hilyer as Zborowski, Jim Carter as Achille Hébuterne, Michelle Newell as Eudoxie Hébuterne and Hippolyte Girardot as Uttrillo, who all try to convince.
Back in school they worked hard to convince us that recreational drug taking was bad, bad, bad for us.
Only some very powerful psychotropics could possibly convince anyone that Justine Bateman's Liam Neeson accompanied rendition of Dedicated to the One I Love is the future of rock and roll.
All the way through it seemed to be a celebration of the sexually free-wheeling 60's, with Bob and Carol essentially enjoying an open marriage - not only having affairs but telling each other about them and sometimes even meeting each other's lovers - and basically trying to convince Ted and Alice to join them in this lifestyle of freedom.
No one alive will convince me "Mike Pipper" isn't Steve Smith, better known as character Red Green on "The Red Green Show".
However, through her determination and frugality, she is able to eventually convince him to take a gamble and strike out on his own.
Oh joy,, another foreign torture/bloody movie that sadistic gore hounds try to convince themselves and other people that it has value or merit.
So follows two hours of tedious 'coming of age' drama which basically is film-speak for "lets convince our young starlets to deprive themselves of their tops every two minutes".I have to admit I was shocked not to discover Russ Meyer's name among the credits.
She travels to Charleston to defend Jack and convince the ship owner to give the position of captain of the new steamship of the company, manipulating the powerful shipping company lawyer Steve Tolliver (Ray Milland), who also falls in love for her.
He befriends the British passenger Althea Hall and unsuccessfully tries to convince Captain Malcolm Smith to change the course of the Titanic, telling that he has come from the future.
I just really want to convince people to get this movie, because it's so interesting ans the storyline is so unique.
Secondly, it just didn't convince me--if Derek's character or the events leading up to the crime were better written, I might have gone along with the premise.
Aubrey's worried parents try and uncover the truth, while Dakota tries to convince others that she isn't Aubrey... but is Aubrey really just pretending to be someone else?
He might convince the blissfully ignorant and uneducated , but an increasing silent majority know's who the real Media Goliath is: The Media run by Corporations, reflecting the advertisers opinion.
"Even angels can get their wings clipped!" says New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy (Franchot Tone) to good-time girl Barbara Whitfield (Jean Wallace) as he tries to convince her to tell the truth, and of the consequences if she doesn't.
It's interesting that both this film and "Rear Window" came out in the same year, since the base plot is identical: person witnessess murder through apartment window in opposing apartment and spends rest of movie trying to convince everone else what they saw.
In her pursuit of her cold goal, she elopes into a small village on the north of Belgium, where she tries to convince a deaf-mute sailor, Rene (Philippe Martz), to take to the iceberg.
Her husband follows her and tries to convince her to return to her family, but she refuses and goes on the trip with Rene.
In the hospital, Rachel tries to convince the staff that Death is hunting for her.
The Brotherhood feel it's essential for Kate to accept her heritage so Dr. Barker, Dr. Gauss (Henry Silva) & Dr. Fraser (David Hemmings) devise a programme of conditioning to convince Kate that she is indeed a Vampire who must drink blood.
Forrest Tucker , a very young Forrest Tucker, plays Jerry Barton, a pilot trying to convince a big airplane producer to see his friend's navigational remote control system.
This poorly made documentary tries to convince people that CIA somehow planned 9/11, because they wanted a war on terror.
He starts to try to convince his dad that it is him, his 36 year old son, but the dad does not believe him.
Yes, Jack Nicholson is a great actor, but no he didn't convince me in the role, even though most of the good lines and deliveries were his.
Everyone, including the deliverer of the line "I'm Irish & can live with something wrong the rest of my life...." failed to convince me of Irish lineage.
yes. i am such a die-hard inuyasha fan i'm gonna label this the best anime movie ever (however i'm aware my biased opinion will not convince everyone).
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