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I'm a fan of the classics and for a guy who watched a lot of of Jim Carrey growing up, watching a more laid back comic is pretty cool.
I was surprised to see that many of the former cane growing lands are still undeveloped, with wild cane still growing, years after the plantations closed.
I've heard many stories from my aunts and uncles who were kids growing up on the plantation.
With the changing times, their growing family is both aided and threatened with friends and relatives, like their Uncle (Walter Connolly) who is a scoundrel and charlatan, but is compassionately tolerated.
Instead of 1974-1979 it should have went longer like in the 1980's when I was just growing up.
With the growing urban blight during the 1970s, this idea was revived with a wave of "blaxploitation" pictures made for urban grind houses which overlaid black actors and funky atmosphere over traditional B- movie plots.
If The Lion King is a serious story about a young lion growing up to avenge his father's death, The Lion King 1 and a half is the total opposite, full of whimsy and cheer.
People growing and people fading, people surprising and people disappointing.
It's style is the stuff of a brief and somehow gloriously exciting moment in our growing up days.
I loved this show growing up and I still watch the first season DVD at age 19 today.
This was a movie that I had heard about all my life growing up, but had never seen it until a few years ago.
But I was growing up during the decade where Jason and Freddy had a deadly grip on the horror game, and never thought much of the Halloween franchise.
Recently, a friend and I were discussing educational and ethical influences when we were growing up in the 1950's versus today.
Story about four teenage girls growing up in California.
Julia has been growing up fast.
They certainly displayed the same growing pains and preoccupations, politics aside: Music, sex, movie idols, music, drinking, sports, music...
6 billion and growing....that's obscene.
I watched the McCoys reunion and was glad to see Richard Crenna and Kathleen Nolan and Tony Martinez!!!To see them now was wonderful, because I always watched the show growing up so when the TV said that there was going to be a reunion I was so excited !!!!
Try and explain the story to people who haven't seen it before: a young women from the wrong side of the tracks attempts to improve her situation by taking up boxing whilst dealing with a bitter, obstructive father and her growing attraction to a male rival.
This is not about growing up on Main Street, USA.
It is about growing up in Yugoslavia at a time when it was torn between the East and the West.
Instead of showing us how exactly Harilal dealt with this betrayal and what went on in his head, the director just moves along with the story, thus never letting us be witness to the growing resentment Harilal feels towards his father.
It was great to see a movie about other young girls growing up, trying to decide whom they wanted to be, and making some bad choices as well as good ones.
"Foxes" is a serious look at the consequences of growing up too fast in the 1980s.
This tale of four boys and a girl growing up in 1953 Communist Belgrade is a heart warmer.
it's movies like these that make you wish that you never picked on the nerd growing up in school.
Only he would (1) take footage from a 20-year-old movie about gorillas in diving helmets ("Robot Monster"), (2) combine it with clips from a 30-year-old movie about elephants with hair mats glued to their sides ("One Million B.C."), (3) throw in parts from a God-knows-how-old Filipino movie about midget cannibals, half man/half lobster monsters and beer-bellied Chinese cavemen with snakes growing out of their shoulders (all of the aforementioned footage being in black and white), (4) spend $11.43 shooting new "connecting" footage (in color, no less) with an apparently--to be charitable--confused John Carradine and a bunch of actors who have trouble remembering their lines (among them a vapid blonde who is so incompetent that all her dialogue is dubbed in by someone else and who doesn't even have the decency to make up for it by getting naked), (5) put it out under at least 10 different titles and (6) try to pass each one off as a new movie.
The thing is that Astaire is unable to accept his growing old and his shooting abilities not being what they used to so, to build up his confidence once more, the trio convince him to accept the badge of town marshal with them as his deputies!
It gives you a glimpse of what is like growing up gay, going to school being bullied, and having to hide your relationship.
Especially when it has a pitch as insane as The Manitou, which sees Susan Strasberg growing the foetus of a 400-year-old reincarnated Native American medicine man in her neck and calling on Tony Curtis' psychic for help.
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