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The movie deals with the hardships of a distant family coping with a mother who develops terminal cancer.
I loved this film almost as much as the origional version!What teenager DOESN'T go through what Scamp's going through;wanting to find independence by getting more and more distant from your family?The songs were nice to,and the character designs were great.Lady and Tramp look almost exactly like they did in the origional feature.They did a good job on the voices of those two,too considering the fact that the origional voice actors are probably dead.However,I do think they should've given more lines to Lady,Annette,Colette,and Daniel.Oh well;at least they had the common sense to keep the same scenery from the original film.
On t.v., the lack of close-ups and distant sound reproduction may prove daunting.
Valentine, a model in France is separated from her lover who is abroad, they plan to meet up in England, but seem to be growing ever more distant as the film progresses.
Even for a budget actioner, the production values are poor, with distant shots during dialog and very little movement.
automatics, and stalks off into the distant house alone.
I went to the kitchen where I have a view of several neighborhoods in the southern Jerusalem and saw a pillar of smoke rising from a distant point, the sight of the smoke was followed a minute later by the waling of sirens.
A local handyman, Jim Payne(Scott Hodges), a rather distant fellow who harbors a secret becomes a dangerous threat when it is revealed that his dead mother might have something to do with the haunts occurring to the Pykes.
Is it her method of dealing with the pain of a lost one that's making her so distant and un-relatable?
The voice interpretation of Matlin's dialogue, under the excuse that Hurt's character "likes the sound of his voice", turns her more and more into a weird distant object as the film goes on.
I AM glad that Aragorn wasn't typecast as an expectant psycho by this P.O.S. Go back and watch the 1971 version, count the things that would NEVER be included in a modern version, and thank whatever deity you worship that someone somewhere in the distant past had the balls to write and shoot an original concept movie that wasn't based on someone else's ideas, and wasn't passed through a corporate board before it saw the light of day.
It was the Sixties, and anyone with long hair and a hip, distant attitude could get money to make a movie.
Anyone who reviews this positively better be a (distant) cousin of the "auteurs".
She starts to lose her mind when she finds out about a distant relative (who she resembles) that was burned for being a werewolf.
There's a wealthy, distant mother who disapproves of her daughter's new relationship.
Jennifer seemed cold, distant, unsentimental, and narcissistic, whereas the grandmother seemed spiteful, sad, and also narcissistic.
It's as if the stilted discourse of 1950s screenwriters serves a common shorthand for a past that seems, in consequence, a very distant country indeed; and therefore stresses the particular, rather than the universal, in the story.
On a distant planet a psychopath is saved from execution by a space monk.
The premise is that a modern filmmaker is interpreting a 17th century fable about the loves of shepherds and shepherdesses set in the distant past when Druids were the spiritual leaders.
Here's another movie that should be loaded into a satellite, fired into space and pointed in the direction of the galaxy Andromeda to show distant possible civilizations the best of humanity.
Dark Angel is a cross between Huxley's Brave New World and Percy's Love in the Ruins--portraying the not too distant future as a disturbing mixture of chaos and order, both in the worst sense of the word.
Chinese Ghost Story stars Leslie Cheung in some distant past in China as a tax collector who is forced to spend a night during his "collecting trip" in a mysterious castle in which some strange old warriors fight and meet him.
Meanwhile, in Germany, some distant relatives of the British royal family are hatching some plans as well.
We fast forward into the distant future where an evil dictator who despises good music called Simon Cow-Al wants to rule the world.
In "Anne of Green Gables" (1934), Marilla Cuthbert (Helen Westley) and Matthew Cuthbert (O.P. Heggie), middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from distant orphanage to help on their farm.
Christian really doesn't need to distant himself that much, because the basic gore elements still stand up, even though highly trimmed down.
Set in the distant past after the Ice Age, it is a prehistoric sword-and-sorcery quest between good and evil.
As a fan of black and white films generally, passport to pimlico, the lavender hill mob and Tommy Trinder (who is apparently a distant relative), this film appealed in that it provided good old fashioned British humour.
I never saw the sequel (Distant Thunder), but I believe it picks up where this movie ends.
Lilia Skala is excellent as distant neighbor called grandma.
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