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This movie tries to be intelligent and witty, but totally falls short when it can't decide whether it wants to be a comedy, a satire, a murder mystery...etc.
Hard up for laughs, Long is written as a klutz, who trips, falls, spills, slides, and even at one point, undresses herself while trying to walk stairs.
Her new love interest is a lifeless doctor who smiles at her maybe twice in the film, yet somehow falls for her.
The film is padded out with nonsensical clichés (the old couple who wanders off for no reason; the girl who sprains her ankle; another who gets snagged on a branch) and incredible lapses in logic (why can't our zeroes see or hear a cluster of ants that are mere feet away?), which culminates in a third act that apparently tries to wax philosophical in the vein of H.G. Wells' original story (which I haven't read) but falls flat on its face.
She also falls in like with a young man and then creates a scene in a library when he won't just drop everything and have sex with her.
Susan Grieve(Davis)is a depressed poet that falls in love with a war hero(Jim Davis).
Harvey Keitel, in his first role, is very good as a man who falls into a doomed relationship with a girl he meets on the Long Island Ferry.
For those who don't realize it the Lady of the Tropics we're referring to is Hedy Lamarr who falls big time for visiting playboy Robert Taylor in Saigon.
King Ralph falls short in every possible way because it lacks proper foresight and planning, and the whole title, plot, and idea is quite "outdated" even for early 90's standards.
A real classic series based on true events,Tenko was a powerful series on the suffering of a group of civilian women during World War 2 when Singapore falls to the Japanese in 1942.
Stephanie Beacham is great as the seemingly selfish Rose Millar with flashes of kindness underneath and her friendship with Blanche is one of the joys of the series,the aborted escape causing a real rift between the two,this is resolved when Blanche is sent back to her friends in the 2nd series after being sent to another camp at the start of series 2 along with Nurse Nellie Keane(who falls in love with Sally(Joanna Hole)in series 1,and Slyvia,Blanche informs them,that Slyvia died a month after arriving in the new camp,Nellie dies a few months before the end of the war in series 3. Series 2 to me,is the best,we meet evil Miss Hasan,(Josephine Welcome)the evil administrator at their new camp and corrupt leader Verna Johnson(Rosemary Martin)we learn at the end of series2,they both sold their red cross parcels,causing a lot of unnecessary deaths for Doctor Mason(great performance throughout by Stephanie Cole as tortured soul,Dr.Beatrice Mason) Veronica Roberts as Dorothy Bennett excels,she goes from widowed young mother to seeing her baby die,then becomes emotionally dead as she has sex with guards to get by but forms an unlikely friendship with Shinya,a Japanese guard,who has to shot Rose when she meets boyfriend Bernard,Dorothy eventually forgives him only for him to die in an allied raid.
What's worse, he falls in love with one of them.
While the acting is superb and the atmospheric scenery is only rivaled by the American film Seven, it's plot falls weak towards the end.
And to complete it all, I was in a theater full of teenage boys, and not one of them laughed once, which goes to show how much the film falls on its face.
It probably pitches like it could be funny (and even successful), but it falls apart as a film, completely...If you understand this, then you also understand it sounds more like an off-Broadway play...As a matter of fact (and the ore I think about it), this 'movie' would probably do very well in a live theatrical format...Heck, it could take on a life of its own and become syndicated, making the US cities tour, complete with building sized promos appearing in each city months before it premiers to build the anticipation...I'm certain performing arts centers all over the country will sell out all the shows quickly as anticipation grows and of course the wealthy season ticket holders would let everyone know they'll be busy on Friday evening, because they will be at the 'premier' of that play...'The Grand'...As a matter of fact, the more 'I' think about it, given the opportunity; 'I'd' pitch it!
Maria, (Pamela Duncan) nurses Jay, and falls in love with him;.
A "schoolmarm" from out East comes to civilize the West through education, and her values come into conflict with the hero she falls in love with.
After an OK opening (without Sean Penn and Madonna), this falls completely apart, weighed down by lethargic attempts at screwball comedy and no chemistry whatsoever between the leads (then a married couple).
It falls short of "The Funeral" in that the character development, aside from Ryoko and Gondo, is a little weaker.
Black woman falls in love with white man.
Other than the Gower's occasional dances in this film, this movie just falls flat.
Done in the style of Crash and Boogie Nights, Sunset Strip falls far short of those two recent classics.
Adrien just wants to protect young Manu (Johan Libéreau); there's no sex; but he takes the boy everywhere and falls madly in love with him.
"Cafe Metropole" falls closer to the classic mark.
Apart from being full of colors and sweet melody, the cinematic opera falls short of achieving that true great flavour that one has come to savour out of the classic Javanese Dance dramas and Ramayana in particular.
Clever man meets mermaid comedy with Hanks fitting the bill as a lonely New York bachelor who falls in love with winsome mermaid Hannah.
There's a tribe of men who steal the skull from Gramps when he had just gotten it back thanks to Charlie and Jesse's "trading" a piece of raw meat for the skull(the Ptierodactyl actually enters the world from his jungle as does a caterpillar dog! when Jesse falls off the tree trying to pry the skull away from the friggin' bird).
However, on the way, Hercules drinks the so called " Waters of Forgetfullness" and forgets who he is and is seduced by this queen,and she falls in love with Hercules.
Stephanie Che plays a character from mainland China that's just moved to Iceland in hope of a new life, there she meets an Icelandic postal worker and falls in love.
Anthony LaPaglia gives a reasonable performance in what must be a difficult role and, if I remember, the respective actor and actress who play John Barton and Katia Allibrandi are also quite good The script and dialogue, so successful in the book, falls flat in this movie.
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