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The actors playing the main roles tried hard but Charles came out looking like a social misfit (seemingly the only woman who took to him, according to this film, were Lady Diana and Camilla--actually he had serious relationships).
The actress playing Diana is a total miscast.
The two actors playing the leads deserved a script that was considerably less wooden.
This is exactly what I'd do if my gang's territory was being threatened by conspiracy and rivalry in the criminal underworld - hide out on a nice beach playing fantastic-looking firework and sumo games with me mates and some random passing woman, listening to crazy old men singing in incredible voices, watching out for assassins in fishing gear and generally building myself up for a massive showdown.
Firstly i can totally empathise with the lead character.... even down to the the fantastic choice of bands displayed on his wall (the Jam and the Specials although i am not too sure about Patti Smith myself!) We've all probably been in the situations Gregory finds himself in during the movie and this just brings it all back... playing football in the school team (and chatting nonchalently to spectators when should have been keeping an eye on players bearing down on goal), getting into scrapes with teachers and of course that first date with the girl of your dreams.
She is forever latched into playing herself, a foul mouthed, small minded individual to whom the world must constantly adapt and cater to.
Eklavya is a visual fest that is ruined by two things - a really shoddy plot and the Amitabh playing the goat.
Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn, apparently playing themselves in the two leading roles in which for almost two hours they sit in a restaurant and engage in a completely believable conversation ranging from the surreal to the social to the metaphysical also write the film.
The characters are just too uninteresting too, no matter who is playing them.
It would be like Wilt Chamberlain playing Martin Luther King.
Mindnumbing bad slasher flick about a killer who's killing off a young film crew while playing a godawful new wave track that goes something like "Boil me!
If it didn't have Nicole Kidman in it, this film would be playing in less than 10 theaters in the country.
But because of Kidman, it is playing in your local cineplex but this is not a film for the cineplex crowd.
I saw this at Screamfest where it was playing as the opening night movie.
Everything good in his old life relates to his mother who fostered his interest in playing the piano; his present of moral turpitude and anger he owes to the influence of his deadbeat father.
The music was i may say, everything ... Actors doing such a great job... Andy Garcia playing so well that you may think that is not a movie but a Real TV story.
Carrey is as funny as ever, this time playing a stupid rather than a sort of psycho wiseguy.
Afterwards the director, Peter Raymont, had a Q&A with the audience (there was also Dallaire's assistant from that period in Rwanda - his name escapes me), and he said that in Canada it will be playing on the CBC in the new year.
That is, until Bugs Bunny as the opposing team is playing every position.
All the shots of innocent children playing were gratuitous and emotionally manipulative.
There were some inspired bits of casting: Jane Seymour as the ill-fated, hard-as-nails matriarch; Alison Steadman as Kirsten, the faithful maid (Yes, Shirley Valentine's gal-pal is now playing a middle-aged Swedish maid!), and pop star Lisa Stansfield as Mary, the ONLY sympathetic offspring.
I rented this movie last week because I love 80's teen movies (License To Drive, Can't Buy Me Love, Don't Tell Her It's Me, etc.) I read the reviews (which were pretty negative), but decided to give "Playing For Keeps" a chance anyway.
The 1970s sexism and the Japanese-American character (playing a racial stereotype) are plain embarrassing.
When I went to see this movie, it was a "nothing good is playing right now, so let's just watch this" kind of decision.
A young Clark Gable has an eerie and threatening presence playing a chauffeur, who apparently is in league with the alcoholic mother and the children's sleazy doctor.
She's great in playing sexy, strong or serious women, but her attempt to put on a girlish performance while being in her forties, is just pathetic.
The only problem is that it has a tendency to sink to the level of The Three Stooges, with Robinson playing the Moe role.
It was playing at the 4 dollar theater and I had about 2 hours to kill.
Even the late lamented Robert Morley playing the part of God couldn't save this stinker.
I have been playing with Cale off and on since 1957 and the JJ Cale I know is the one you'll see in this film.
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