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Robert DeNiro plays the most unbelievably intelligent illiterate of all time.
In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria (Fernanda Carvalho) sells his daughter to the middle man of a prostitution organization, Tadeu (Chico Dias), to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life.
It's unusual for a nearly unknown country like Chile to get so well represented as it is by this movie, whose perhaps only sin is to aim too high, and because of that left the illiterate public a little upset, mostly because they understood very little.
She's a widow who can't move on, he's illiterate and a closet-inventor--you can probably guess the rest.
William is illiterate and frightened but somehow the two find solace in each others loneliness.
Although this film put Davis on the map due to her brilliantly intense performance as the illiterate guttersnipe waitress/prostitute Mildred Rogers, this film is strangely unsatisfying to me as a whole.
Melvyn Douglas once more gives a polished performance in which, this time, he inhabits the role of a detective who can't place love before duty and adventure, and the warmly beautiful Joan Blondell (who, far from being illiterate, as one reviewer suggested, wrote a novel about her early life) is as enjoyable as ever as his ever-suffering sweetheart.It's almost a screwball comedy, almost a Thin Man-type movie, almost a series, I guess, that didn't quite make it to a sequel.
Throw in an astonishingly illiterate script ("Famine's hand will stalk the land" -- how's that for a mixed metaphor?),
The entire film is splattered with both obscenities and blood but the script has to have been written by an illiterate with a limited vocabulary.
Overwhelmingly unattractive, obnoxious, and virtually illiterate (because why go to class when there are handbags to be bought and hangovers to be overcome), the majority of these kids have absolutely NOTHING going for them but their riches.
Besides that, "The Paradine Case" is a masterpiece in order to show what Kracauer called "the illiterate effects of a Hitchcock-thriller".
Just watched it on the sci fi channel and being a former resident of the area it was depicting I am insulted at the portrayal of the men being redneck illiterate drunks and the women being oversexed bimbos.
Cardboard men and women running insanely around, the things they say,how they say things, as about convincing as the credibility of an illiterate being the best one for a job as an interpreter, their manners and movements as gracefully as if you had taken a branch or a log, and moved it with abrupt, uneven jerks in the air.
This movie is designed for an illiterate, superstitious audience.
The only justification was to show that the village boy was illiterate and unable to fill in the vet's form.
Rip off on another film I viewed about an illiterate teen who entered the national spelling bee.
And illiterate people can learn to fly them in battle in a week.
Poor, often illiterate, individuals are generally unaware of how infectious diseases – especially unfamiliar diseases – are transmitted, making them much more likely to become infected and to infect others.
Today, 750 million adults – two-thirds of them women – are illiterate, and 260 million children are not in school.
Many of them will be illiterate.
One of the most important has been an opportunity I couldn’t have imagined as an angry, illiterate, nine-year-old soldier: school.
Three in five illiterate children in the world are girls.
Our average participant is 40 years old, illiterate, and earns just $7 a week selling crops like sesame and peanut.
In 1870, more than three-quarters of the world was illiterate, and access to education was even more unequal than income.
The illiterate come mostly from older generations.
Around 40% of Pakistanis live below the poverty line, half the population is illiterate, and, among those who are literate, many have been schooled in Wahhabi-funded madrasas.
Research conducted in a variety of countries has shown that literate rural farmers manage systems and technologies (including water conservation and risk evaluation) more efficiently than their illiterate peers.
Yet hundreds of millions of Indians remain illiterate and unskilled.
So forget about the economically illiterate Bush administration daring to do either.
Children of educated mothers consistently out-perform children with educated fathers and illiterate mothers.
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