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Dave Foley is an earnest ant that gets himself into trouble a lot.
The Matador is a witty, dark humored and suspenseful melodrama that rises way above mediocrity thanks to two very engaging and earnest performances from Pierce Brosnan, who has never ever been better than here, and the always reliable Greg Kinnear who has his best role here since playing Jack Nicholson's gay neighbor in As Good As It Gets.
Paul Lukas plays the very earnest and decent head of his family.
Stewart and Miles (as his wife) are pretty good, as is Hamilton as an earnest agent.
I wish Bridget Fonda had more scenes in the movie; she was an earnest and appealing character.
I mean, in earnest, it isn't even the level of humor that is the problem, but rather the monotony of it all.
Marcos strikes up an uneasy friendship with an earnest, but suspicious gay neighbor.
Chris O'Donnell is not a great actor, but he is good portraying this earnest, somewhat shallow man.
This cheap imitation of "The Night Of The Living Dead" is an earnest attempt to revive the "appeal" (and the chills) of the 1968 film, but while most of the appropriate ingredients seem to be in place, somehow they don't work.
But for all the earnest concern, there's still too much of the theatrical for my liking.
Shimura and Mifune as the wise, old cop and the young, earnest rookie are absolutely convincing and completely mesmerizing.
Unike its titular child android, "Astro Boy"'s oh-so earnest zing is somewhat attenuated by the lack of a definitive soul to make it stand out.
With the look of a made-for-tv flick and a somewhat obvious screenplay, "Summer's End", an earnest drama built around the Jones character's relationship with a young boy, serves as a reminder that racial prejudice in American lives on.
Pontecorvo's first feature is an emotionally powerful film, driven by his usual, but earnest political and sociological motivations.
We have been searching in earnest first in stores and then on the internet and discovered to our dismay it was never recorded and sold as a VHS or DVD movie.
Everybody seemed pretty earnest.
Noted scientist Dr. Stein (stolid John Hart) and perky assistant Dr. Winfred Walker (a winningly spunky portrayal by Ivory Stone) try to restore dismember Vietnam veteran Eddie Turner (an engagingly earnest performance by the hulking John De Sue) to his former self.
Jack Carson, as usual, plays a bumbling but earnest character, a-la his cop "playwright" done the same year in "Arsenic and Old Lace"( released oddly in '44.)
Aren't they earnest?
Gone here is the humor, back are all the old television clichés in mind-numbing earnest.
Demi Moore as Marina is in earnest even though she gets off to a wrong start by marrying a man she "thinks" is the right one, but her feelings aren't based on solid ground as it turns out.
Whereas those three shorts are created out of a spirit of fanboy reverence and earnest enthusiasm for superhero movies, 'The Death of Batman' feels like it was made by a person expressing severe angst toward the concept of the superhero.
When he arrives back in the present, he soon has a new appreciation for the "here and now" and is able to begin his career again in earnest.
The actors tried to do the best they could, the girl scientist was very earnest and sincere.
There's a nice little brotherhood story connecting earnest, good-natured Candy to arrogant blowhard Aykroyd, but it's so badly bogged down that it doesn't manage to surface until the last 20 minutes and that's much too late.
The film delivers it's story with a soft touch, avoiding extremes while maintaining an earnest sense of legitimacy.
It's at this point that the film begins in earnest.
Andre Braugher, while consistently earnest, seemed to be portraying the last six characters I've seen him play.
The Mole People would be campy if it weren't so earnest.
You can't beat a cool Vince Guaraldi soundtrack, wry Charles Schulz humor and the earnest kid's voice actors not to mention some great catch the Beethoven references.
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