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It's all over Tyrone Power, and considering how dapper he looks in his tie and tails (His hair has the high-gloss, Art-Deco sheen of a baby grand piano.),
I was looking forward to this movie a lot.I wanted to watch it with my grand daughters.I am glad I saw it first.I was so disappointed with it.I never got the connection with the horse and the girl,didn't work for me.I also wanted to see the big race?The one that saved the ranch?She said Flicka the horse came they opened the gate for them to run away?Whats with that?Now oh god shes missing get a search party.I would rather have seen Dekota fanning do the part this girl was a bit over weight for it.
It is nothing grand, and for the most part there really is no plot, but it is still a rather good movie.
A fortune is made on Delilah's recipe and when Delilah is asked to sign for 20% of the proceeds that her recipe created she states that money is not important to her, but, she would like enough money set aside so she can have a grand funeral, "I loves me a good funeral."
His job: transport a witness, Eddie Bunker (Mos Def, in an amazing performance) 16 blocks from the jail cell where he's been held to the courthouse where the witness is to testify before a grand jury probe of a crooked cop.
Pacino gives a grand A plus performance as a Long Island Jewish producer and halfway through the movie I forgot he was Al Pacino.
When I saw it today there was a grand total of five people in my screen, three of which were me and my friends.
So if you sit for the Izo ride, make sure you bring an open mind and not your grand mother.
It could have been grand!
40 years later, after the mayor's death, Mordecai threatens a grand return.
I want to commend the directors and cast of this movie on a grand job.
Sci Fi TV has rarely, if ever dived so deep into the wellsprings of intellect and drama (moreso than the new BSG, TNG and Firefly - which is saying a lot) Central to the show's grand (7 year) story arc is Benjamin Sisko, the space station's brilliant but somewhat reluctant and disgruntled new commander.
As I write this, TCM has a Ruth Etting 1930's short film playing (Think of short music 1930's films as the grand daddy of music videos).
The rest of the movie is a upsurge to Guru's grand yet powerless argument in the courtroom.
A grand western!
Rydell's lifeless performance is a major detriment to an important part of the film, but for the most part, FOR THE BOYS is grand entertainment, thanks to the Divine Miss M.
Besson attempts to tell a grand scale story with unsatisfying small scale scenes, there is little tension after the opening.
Watching movies like this make me value the Guest movies (Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, and Best and Show) and the grand master of them all, Spinal Tap, but this movie is a poser, and unwatchable.
I was delighted to find out that the film is still a grand piece of soapdish entertainment, and if you have yet to delved into Hollywood's early classic period of film-making, this MGM production provides a nice starting point.
Next time at least get a villain who weighs more than 150 pounds and increase the budget to 50 grand.
But it was a grand "so what?" at the end.
A real-time interaction between a large group of unusual people including 2 prostitutes and their reluctant and somewhat bizarre client, an all-girl swim team, a large black dog and a scene stealing white chihuahua, and a couple trying to get their knocked-up under age grand daughter laid so they can pin the blame on some poor schmuck and marry her off.
The grand daughter, incidentally, is played by a nubile Jody Foster (!!!) who probably doesn't mention this film much in her résumé!
There are two ways to get a huge number of A-list faces on the big screen and where the first is usually a biblical or wartime epic, the other is a grand concept comedy such as Cannonball run.
A well written script, fine cast of actors and a physical production that recreates late 19th century London in grand fashion.
Robin Williams as the Genie is funny at times(but overbearing at others)and some of the other minor characters brings some laughs but the movie tries to be too grand and too good even though it wasn't meant to be.
While Shirley McLaine remains ever the strong willed Aurora, what makes this film wonderful is the fact that she continues her relationship with her grand children much as she did with her daughter, and somewhere along the way in both movies the children come to realize that while she may make you want to bang you head against a wall, there isn't anyone that loves and supports you more!
Before this film, Grant's only films of real note were his supporting performances to that grand old sexpot Mae West in films such as 'She Done Him Wrong' and 'I'm No Angel' and roles opposite 30's female stars Marlene Dietrich in 'Blonde Venus' and Katharine Hepburn in 'Sylvia Scarlett'.
The visual style blends perfectly the paintings of Europeans like Goya and Rembrandt on the fascinating land of Provence in France, and the Gothic-terrific architecture with beasts, devils and dragons with the fascinating Romanesque-Renaissance grand flavor of color, spaces, and themes.
"Possessed" (1947) is one of Joan Crawford's last great outings as the grand dame of Warner Brothers, in a film so deeply disturbing that even today it tends to hold an audience spellbound in its neurotic tension.
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