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I saw Shake Hands with the Devil not long ago, on Radio-Canada, and it was a very strong counter to Hotel Rwanda, which I had seen just days earlier.
Quite simply the heroine Kathleen Quinlan, and not really her per say but the fact that she "saves the day" not her male counter lead.
Will (Robert Knott) enters a shop and doesn't have enough for his beer, so he takes it out of a jar on the counter that is there to pay for his daughter Emma's (Tara Devon Gallagher) ear operation.
It was the first worldwide box office hit for Cagney (age 31) and forever cast him in the public eye as a "tough guy," an image he was unable to shed despite numerous roles chosen especially to counter that image, including his Oscar-winning role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
When I saw this western on the shelf at the movie store I grabbed it and ran to the counter.
The film is not counter fit but is a passable small screen watch for crime flick buffs.
Obviously this film was made to counter the negative criticism of Michael Moore's films and any sort of criticism of America.
I rented this on New Year's Eve to counter the boredom of Bowl games, and found the movie to be surprisingly good.
So i rushed to the counter to make this disc (full of visual moments of adventure) all mine.
To counter the death of his latest soon-to-be victim, a cybercrime cop (Patrick Thompson) is determined to track him down; journeying from Australia to the US, so determined is he to do so.
As it is, the film lights up the moment this dazzling hunk makes his first appearance as a clerk behind a tobacconist's counter, and the entire first half of the film that's gone before seems like a hopeless waste.
If you like silly laughs to counter all the serious dramas flooding the market and to take the edge off the rat race, this is a good movie.
I purchased it on video cassette and started watching it and was surprised to find a black and white movie in which James Bond is a CIA Agent and his counter part Felix Leiter is a British Secret Service agent.
Van Damme has an excellent roll as Jack Quinn, a hard core counter terrorist who is out to get terrorist stavros, mickey rourke.
Lorene Greene is excellent as Commander Adama and his counter part, John Colicos, is very good as Count Baltar.
Shows we see on regular TV lack so much compared to their cable counter parts.
He walks into a bank and bangs on the counter, demanding drinking glasses.
This is the story of a perfume counter saleswoman who puts a Christmas List in Santa's mailbox at the store she works in.
However, the long queue at the ticket counter was worth it.
Capturing some of the counter culture of the time, wanting to escape Your surroundings, Your situation of Scandinavia, it gives prof that You can leave but never escape Yourself.
I really feel this film was made by a fan of Pater Jackson's early stuff, maybe this guy loves horror like me, but he doesn't have an ounce artistry or imagination...no offense, but stick to working behind the counter at McDonalds Mr Director.
I felt like jumping the counter to snatch back my ten pounds and would have done but for the fear of having to explain to my fellow inmates that I was in for watching "Right at my door" or whatever its called.
Betrayal and counter betrayal and a conclusion that makes you laugh out loud! Usually a serious actor in political or psychological films - Jean Louis T. tries some lighter than air 'hey-presto' and proves that he can do comedy as well.
However, the Royal Engineers in reality are English-speaking German soldiers in British uniforms, parachuted into England to set up a counter radar apparatus which will disrupt England's radar network.
The only reason I am even wasting my time to write a review is because someone needs to counter the endless stream of 9s and 10s on this sight.
The girl working at the counter would sometimes recommend movies to me if I couldn't decided.
The US, mindful of Iraqi business, supported them for the first few years, but then sold weapons to Iran to counter Iraq's growing success.
How can we counter these forces?
In Russia, the task is especially problematic, because the ruling elite’s interests run counter to undertaking it.
If structural reforms simply lower all wages and prices, it may indeed be difficult in the short-term to counter the drop in aggregate demand.
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