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I had the good fortune to be at Perris Island in the fall of 1959.
It is almost like going to a fortune teller and hearing what was going to happen in the future.
But the most moving part of the story is its conclusion:Babette was a great French chef,she was famous,now she found a new homeland but her heyday is behind her and she won't never be allowed to come back to her dear France.So the two old sisters do comfort her:In heaven,there will be huge kitchens where she cooks for eternity.While sharing her fortune with her new friends,Babette changed their life,she gave them pleasure and a magic evening they would remember forever.In this simple but extraordinary screenplay,human warmth is everywhere,and I wish everybody a Babette's feast,would it be only for one starry night...
Loving his change of fortune (and snazzy new apartment), Niles continues to receive payoffs for patching up other injured members of the gang.
Basically, a group of thieves, including Sid Carter (Sid James) and Ernie Bragg (Bernard Bresslaw), plan to make a fortune stealing a shipment of contraceptive pills from Finisham maternity hospital.
He'd lost much of his fortune after a messy divorce in the early 1930s and his film career as a leading man was long passed as well.
The actor's talking about "Star Wars" and fortune cookie phrases is almost unbearable.
It was also the birthplace of the great Hearst fortune, and the launching pad of John Mackay, who became the wealthiest man in America, the third wealthiest man in the world.
She is supposedly the heir to a face cream fortune.
The film stars Nicholas Cage as Benjamin Franklin Gates (how precious is that, I ask you?); a seemingly normal fellow who, for no other reason than being of a lineage of like-minded misguided fortune hunters, decides to steal a 'national treasure' that has been hidden by the United States founding fathers.
He has a fortune and more, he will become a member of Parliament and later a Minister.
The film could make a fortune being sold as a sleep aide.
It's not a horror flick, but a drama where Boris is a struggling scientist agreeing to kill a wealthy woman's husband in order to gain the fortune needed to continue with his work.
But, Ms. Moran is worried about her fortune, and loudly demands a complete withdrawal.
I had the good fortune of reading the book before seeing the movie.
He believes his daughter's lack of good looks would ruin his fortune by marrying beneath their social status.
"A trio of treasure hunters is searching the West Indies for a hidden fortune.
The marriage proposal, the fortune teller...gone.
This production company gained fame and fortune during the first half of the 90's by producing terribly bad and cheesy horror movies.
A Polish/English language barrier and a series of coincidences leads Buster into a marriage with a large Irish woman, who (along with her father and brothers) treat him shabbily until they think he may be an heir to a fortune.
Man and Woman fall in love and marry, husband is supposedly killed by a family friend who wants their family fortune, woman remarries and surprise surprise husband no.1 reappears.
Their aim is to use counterfeit money at the gambling tables and win a fortune.
Roommates Sugar and Bobby Lee are abducted by menacing dudes while out shopping one day and taken back to a secluded island that the girls reluctantly tell the thugs that they last visited when they were ten years of age and that a fortune is located on.
If anything its problem is that he's trying to throw in too many influences (a bit of Machiavelli, a dash of Godard, a lot of the Principles of Chess), motifs and techniques, littering the screen with quotes: the film was originally intended to end with three minutes of epigrams over photos of corpses of mob victims, and at times it feels as if he never read a fortune cookie he didn't want to turn into a movie.
Anyway I love Geraldine Fitzgerald as the Bach matriarch of the family who decides the family's fortune.
The group claim to want to hunt animals, and Tarzan agrees for Jane's sake to a bit of big game trapping; but at some point, the idea of ivory and of obtaining a fortune turns the expedition's heads' minds.
The cock is now the warrior who can bring fortune and justice to the Colonel and his asthmatic wife, but his fighting ring is that of the killer of his former owner, Agustin.
Good luck and great fortune to you Bret Carr (if you read this), you are without a doubt a talent to watch for.
Based on a popular novel by Robert Wilder and an adaptation by George Zuckerman, it had all the elements that make an excellent melodrama: nymphomania, a large oil fortune, alcoholism, incest and a mild touch of homosexuality.
Threatened with the danger of losing the opulent family home, Big Sister makes a grand sacrifice and secretly marries a real estate developer so she can inherit her... aunt's fortune.
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