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Their encounter with Jeanne Moreau elevates this comedy to the tragic level.
Kevin Kline is such a natural and it seems his mannerisms are effortless and one you would encounter often.
She takes an instant liking to Jeff in a brief encounter on the deck of the steamer to Skagway, and a longer look when he hides in her cabin while authorities seek him on a charge of murder.
During another escapade, they encounter a new friend and his mute sister who become part of their band of friends.
A chance encounter between a salesman and a hit-man changes both their lives.
This is a movie that seems to be telling us what money, power and success do to people in the different situations we encounter.
I didn't expect the delightful scene I was about to encounter.
A chance encounter with this film on one of DirecTV's many movie channels kept me interested in spite of my concentration problems.
We are far more likely to encounter the benign evil of Jackson Rippner than Freddy Kruger, and Cillian Murphy (Batman Begins) does an excellent job of presenting a sociable, friendly, even charismatic killer.
Though they encounter many people on the road: "There's the scary old woman they pick up in the Bosnian border on the way to Belgrade, and the talkative Mustafa(Jacky Nercessian), who helps them out at the border of Turkey,the reticent and shy women wearing burqas on the way to Damascus" the focus is always on the mismatched father and son.There is not much of a conversation in the movie which makes it enjoyable to your eyes.
Her best friend is the physical and psychological opposite: coquette, chubby -- I dare say fat -- and desirous for her first kiss with a boy but not quite ready for her first sexual encounter.
It works as a bit of a horror film, with the danger and almost surrealism of the encounter with the vile rednecks who objectify their "sow" Ned Beatty.
Along the way they encounter numerous sporting movie cliches and send them up, along with any other bit of popular culture that comes into their sights.
After a chance encounter on the train, a young couple spends a single night strolling the streets of Vienna, discussing life and love.
The result forgives our tepid forming of a bridge away from the muddy sludge of dead we must encounter.
Taking place almost entirely in various, non-descript spots in southern Los Angeles, the story itself is inconsequential, but like Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation", the film is far more about two strangers who meet unexpectedly, find a common bond and go back to their lives enlightened for the momentous encounter.
I liked the quick sexual encounter, which must be out of character for a normally reserved school teacher (MacDowell).
Sammo has to encounter each opponent one by one.
Seldom do I ever encounter a film so completely fulfilling that I must speak about it immediately.
It was bad enough when their date was disrupted by teenage hot-rodders, but they are considerably more nonplussed when they encounter a gelatinous, man-eating What Is It that rides down to earth on its own hotrod meteor--and begins gobbling up townfolk right and left.
It was my first encounter with Cronyn, and I've been a fan ever since.
I assume that the people that drifter teen Johnny encounter during his stay in Las Vegas would be much more hostile, crazy, and the like.
After an encounter with the thing, she collapses in a snow bank to find herself awakening in and confined to a rehab clinic.
They end up finding a beautiful camping ground and a huge lake and think that it is going to be a weekend that none of them are ever going to forget, until they encounter a family of psychos living on the property.
Telling about the years from his fateful first encounter with the Castro brothers in Mexico to the end of the revolution, The Argentine helps show how a young doctor became a Comandante respected and loved by a nation that was not even his.
And the romantic encounter doesn't quite work out like he had hoped.
The story involves a couple pilots and a servant who crash on an island and encounter a strange doctor and his weird counterparts.
You won't find these people together in any other movie you see, although you're likely to encounter them in real life whether you want to or not.
This movie adeptly presents the complexities of culture and nationalism using parallels and metaphors interwoven in a culture few will encounter.
But a chance encounter starts him thinking he might be the talented concert pianist he once dreamed of, in the image of his late mother.
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