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This beautiful story of an elder son coming home, and learning to love and be a part of all those things that he left home to get away from, is poignant and moving.
The show changed somewhat after Mr. Three's Company passed on, and for a while, they couldn't seem to make up their minds if they wanted to go for getting laughs, or being poignant and making sure to be respectful.
Sad but poignant.
Paperhouse is the most moving and poignant film I've ever seen.
Capably directed by Danny Steinmann, with uniformly fine acting from a sturdy cast, a compellingly perverse plot, excellent make-up by Craig Reardon, a nicely creepy atmosphere, a wonderfully wild climax, a slow, but steady pace, likable well-drawn characters, and a surprisingly heart-breaking final freeze frame (the incest subplot packs an unexpectedly strong and poignant punch), this unjustly overlooked early 80's psycho sleeper is well worth checking out.
A humorous, but poignant look at family, and the obligations that come with it.
Maruschka Detmers performance is brave, poignant, heartfelt or understood, and totally believable.
It is funny, poignant, and a great tales of the ups and downs of female friendships lasting through difficult times and the bad things that female friends tend to do to each others!
Having no knowledge of this film prior to seeing it on Rialto Channel I found it to be a pleasant, poignant and enriching film.
The first film was a nice one, but it is not as good as the wonderful animated classic which I found more poignant and endearing.
Funny, poignant, and utterly charming, "SWD" is an award winning film well worth a look by more mature viewers.
It is also quite poignant.
It's hilarious mostly from beginning to end and knowing this would be their last for the man partly responsible for their teaming is indeed poignant when one thinks of it.
For me--Cross Eyed encapsulates what movie making should be about--combining the best of all film elements to create a clever, artistic and poignant tale.
Also there were some dark scenes, that young children would find upsetting, but the ending is very poignant.
The movie is funny, poignant and thought-provoking.
It was funny, warm, poignant, and moving, as well as entertaining.
This impressive time capsule of late-seventies/early-eighties NY is poignant at times, but still fun to watch.
Do see this beautiful and poignant movie.
A more intelligent and poignant critique of our Western 'capitalist dictatorship' (the words of our three anti-heroes!),
Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, and Mary Anderson give the best performances in the film, and the woman with the dead baby near the beginning is a poignant touch.
That's where I first saw both and they have been locked in my consciousness as equally great and poignant comments on the "future".
Vincente Minnelli takes the audience on a tour of the "how to make movies" idea in The Bad and the Beautiful, a heartfelt and poignant story about a ruthless producer trying to get back into the position of successful producer with the help of three people he launched careers for.
It had a great story line, was well acted and had a strong message while being poignant and humorous.
By turns graphic, poignant, and humorous, the film brilliantly captures the relative innocence of a lost eroticism as it follows Berlin from his European beginnings to his present life in San Francisco.
This film will hold you spellbound until its last scene, which is one of the most heartbreaking and poignant in cinematic (and literary) history.
Evocative, funny, poignant, and tragic by turns, it leaves you with a warm feeling and a sense of puzzlement: if they can make things as good as this, how come we have to put up with so much dross?
This is a poignant piece of a father's struggle to find what love means to him, a search which he completes not through his dog-like love of women, but for his son, a true and more mature love.
Many people see it as a poignant social commentary, a wickedly funny and dark outlook at a society gone mad with the idea of celebrity and media obsession.
That essence is as poignant and lingering as Indian spices, and that is why I love Asoka.
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