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In the last scenes Mike, (Matt Dillon), goes on a suicidal rampage for no other reason than to kill his former friend.
Perhaps if I was snowed in and given the choice between watching "Never Say Never Again" and "Howard The Duck" I would choose the former.
I don't know if I'm even capable of tackling all the things wrong with it--like the fact that the casting director appears to have pulled names out of a hat, or the mind-blower of Richard Gere's character being allowed to walk away scot-free at the end (I'm sure the people saying, "It's just fiction, who cares" would have no problem if it was a former Al-Qaeda operative who just wants to return to his home country)--so I'll just devote my review to the utter hilarity, which is mainly the scene where Bruce Willis is testing out his gun.
(I always wanted to write that:) Many years ago (in 1993 as I recall it) one of my former classmates persuaded me to watch what he called "a epic masterpiece".
Jimmy Dean is a natural as a sausage spokesman but as a tough guy former sheriff, he comes up way short.
Like the former, it details, in its far too brief 74 minutes, the life of an interesting American.
The guest talked about Sir Charles' career and how his films had been out of circulation ever since the 1952 exclusion of the former "Little Tramp' from Los Estados Unidos on the grounds of his being an "undesirable Alien".
The first thing Corey does upon release is steal some money from his former boss Rico, and the second thing he does is recruit Vogel and a sharpshooter to help him pull of a jewel heist.
Searching for answers regarding the one responsible for such disregard towards her sanity, Joan discovers that no one rents that room, and that a former tenant had in fact strangled herself.
As a former babysitter who was watching this flick late at night with the lights out, I can safely say the stalker dude was one creepy mofo!
When Bill Maher, Carl Bernstein, a former president, or other substantive guests sit across from him, it's not too bad.
His daughter Cassie Robinson calls her former boyfriend Dean and asks him to investigate the mysterious accident.
This time we have two dolls Chucky and his former girlfriend (when he was human) Tiffany.
This amusing, sometimes poignant look at the Hollywood detective genre of the 1940's and 1950's stars Robert Sacci as an unnamed former cop who retires, uses his life savings to pay for plastic surgery to transform his image into that of his idol, Humphrey Bogart, then sets up shop as a private eye under the name "Sam Marlowe".
Here in this she was definitely above average as the former fed (or was it fed on loan?) profiler.
It starts with a family of three, a doctor (James Stewart), his wife (Doris Day)- who is a former stage singer, and their young son- my guess is about 10 years old, who are traveling through Morroco for leisure.
The summit of the former were the religious poetry and "The Epic Of Gilgamesh".
It deals with the attempted cover-up by the local Marine commander of unacceptable conduct by a Marine major which resulted in his being shot to death by his former girl friend, a Marine captain.
Selleck plays former major league star who finds himself traded (?) to Japan as his career winds down.
This movie was very dramatic, but still told the truth of events in the former Yugoslavia.
Then, one of his former students wins an Oscar for a film in which he plays a gay soldier and thanks Howard in his acceptance speech, outing him as being gay too!
The supporting cast is equally fine, Gielgud's former 'Importance Of Being Earnest" co-star Gwen Francon-Davies plays his philanthropic Aunt Agatha with dignity and Judi Bowker makes a touching Sybil Vane.
The Jackal's former mistress teaching the highly proper and very married Quinn to rough her up, lick blood from her face, and then go down on her, alone is worth the price of admission.
Beautifully documented and filmed by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary its the story Anderson Sa, a former Rio De Janeiro drug trafficker who after the deaths of family members and friends becomes a Christ-like, Malcolm X, and Ghandi all rolled into one.
He claims his throne, forcing his former's two children to flee into the woods, where they hide near a huge stone statue for 10 years.
Better than average World War II-era "who-dun-it" featuring Warner Baxter as a former gangster who suffered amnesia and has been reborn as a psychiatrist now known as Robert Ordway who helps both the police and criminals who want to go straight.
The baseball sequences are far and away the most realistic of any baseball movie, I'm quite sure most of the actors were current or former baseball players.
Extremely good cinematic story of gay, embittered former teen star, now waiting tables.
Kline plays Howard Brackett, a small town history teacher who excitedly sits down to watch the Academy Awards this year because one of his former students (Matt Dillon) is a nominee.
As a former Erasmus student I enjoyed this film very much.
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