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She manages to catch the eye of Maurice Ronet and buys him lunch, then leaves the restaurant without saying goodbye, causing him to go through a series of both funny and sad adventures in his efforts to find her.
She is valiant in her efforts to expose the horrid conditions at the asylum.
Duvall spent many years writing and trying to get his film picked up and all efforts came to no avail.
Maybe because these were the only episodes that were focused on a single Angel, Kelly and Jill, respectively, rather than the others which were group efforts...) Kate was excellent and extremely compelling as Sabrina Duncan, Farrah was quite good (sometmes mesmerizing) as the fun-loving, athletic, charming flirt Jill Munroe (I have always thought her comedienne skills could have been tapped into more) and Jaclyn was beyond lovely and sweet as Kelly Garrett, the perfect third banana.
Jason being relatively new to the industry, i felt his efforts to achieve such goals need be commended.
The film succeeds in spite of the efforts to punch it up.
Several similar films were re-dubbed during the 1960s and the efforts were, to put it mildly, very sad.
This reviewer attempts to describe something of merit within each work under consideration, but with this wretchedly made film, one must slide by the woeful efforts by those who generally provide audience enjoyment, i.e., director, screenwriter, actors, editors, et alia, before finally recognizing the customary able efforts from crew technicians as the sole evidence of adequacy.
This is a very-much copied western which belongs technically to the category of Randolph Scott westerns; this large and interesting body of work itself should be divided I suggest into the 1940s B/W series, and the 1950s color series; this is one of the earlier color efforts, an expensive-looking production but with somewhat inconsistent color.
In several of his better efforts, Scott's role was that of a law officer or detective infiltrating some group of schemers.
Minghella is so desperate to put some 'real people' into this phoney saga that he drags in some hapless Bosnian characters, though even they are not convincing, despite the best efforts of the ever-brilliant Juliette Binoche with her perfect Serbo-Croat accent and a superb first performance by the young Rafi Gavron as her son.
Though certainly one of Chaplin's lesser efforts, 'The Circus' is an enjoyable and imaginative thread of slapstick gags, with the occasional hint of pathos, though not to the extent of many of the Tramp's other feature-length outings.
If anything, this movie at least attempted to show two women in business being rewarded for their efforts and hard work.
Considering the absolute total ineptness of the acting, directing, and writing efforts here, there may be only enough loose coin to burn just one copy.
Much of the movie focuses on these efforts; unfortunately, the winds kick up and the air ship is ripped apart.
Neve Campbell plays Vera Barrie, a poor little rich girl who, at first glance, appears to be fending off the efforts of everyone around her to use and control her.
While interviewing for an assistant's job with a college professor, she maneuvers the academic's clumsy efforts to flirt with her into a virtual admission of potential sexual harassment, all but forcing him to offer her the position.
The spaghetti Westerns of thirty years ago gave new life to a tired genre - and now we have the first Thai Western, a big improvement on Hollywood's efforts.
While these old-rivalry-in-a-new-setting cartoons can sometimes prove tedious, Tedd Pierce's inventive writing ensures 'Big House Bunny' rises above the average efforts.
This sorry excuse to waste 90 minutes of everybody's life is really a mess, made by a director infamous for other such bad efforts in the horror range.
Unfortunately, the producers made many mistakes which seriously undercut their efforts.
Each and every scene gives you an impression of 2.5yrs of real efforts done by the great Sanjay Leela Bhansali.
The story itself was not even too bad, but all the efforts were in vain due to the amateurish way in which the film was shot.
Aubrey responded by drastically cutting the budgets (and quality) of MGM's film output, and instead concentrated his efforts and the studio's remaining assets on the creation of a vulgar MGM Vegas hotel.
The reason I give it 2 stars instead of just 1 is due to a few aesthetically pleasing elements; the cinematography is gorgeous old-school black and white (not like today's occasional black and white efforts that look like crap); the outdoor shots of upstate New York are a nice relief from the largely bare-walled interior scenes (it's a nice touch having Olga's hide-out be an abandoned mine, although clearly the rooms seen aren't in a mine); there's a long (and blessedly dialog-free) sequence of one of the victims getting chased through the countryside that almost achieves a kind of pastoral quality, reminiscent of the silent era; most of the women are fairly easy on the eye, especially Olga (who by the way is clearly American despite her foreign-sounding name).
Even the beautiful scenery and Primo's best efforts can't save this one.
I've always been a huge Anderson fan and adore all four of his previous efforts, and this certainly ranks among his best (top three, easily).
Iran on the WarpathBERLIN – While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow-motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle of European officials’ myriad efforts to rescue the euro (and thus the global financial system), clouds of war are massing over Iran once more.
These efforts have produced a small, well-educated Roma elite who are now making an important contribution to the emancipation of Roma.
Once confidence began to recover and market conditions stabilized, the East Asian economies shifted their monetary and fiscal policies toward expansion and embraced large-scale exchange-rate depreciation – efforts that enhanced their export competitiveness.
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