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He also has a poignant scene with Michael McKean as a lonely transsexual.
In that thought, both the title and the dualistic tone are set for a surprisingly poignant piece about the borders that keep both countries and people apart.
This poignant film needs to be released on DVD so hat hopefully, it won't be forgotten.
The movie was funny, poignant and a tear jerker.
Full of humor and poignant moments, rated R.
I found this movie delightful but I like poignant movies with happy endings, and great music.
The sweet, poignant story of a restaurant proprietor and his brother, the cook's, attempts to keep their struggling franchise afloat is perfect fare not just for families, but for anyone who enjoys a truly well made film.
It's very poignant to see her dainty little fingers helping Welles unbutton his vest, knowing that her life would later end so tragically.
Then too, the final line presents a poignant slice of ironic insight.There's the inevitable comparison here with the thematically similar Double Idemnity, but then Novak is no Stanwyck and MacMurray is a ten dissipated years older.
And finally, Why is this such a terrific movie!!...Because it is so much of a story about the sixties revolution...Here is one of the most poignant phrases I have ever heard, "Telling a person he is obnoxious is often times tantamount to telling them they they are telling the truth!!
The remaining cast is poignant.
It's poignant, funny, intelligent, and beautifully filmed.
What the Polish brothers have given us is nothing short of miraculous, utterly human and as poignant as anything I have ever experienced.
i only wish that rocky could have lived longer, to achieve everything he wanted to. the fact that the story is actually true makes this film all the more poignant and profoundly moving.
Alternatingly absolutely hysterical and poignant, this movie is a must see for all who enjoy a well done realistic romantic comedy (as opposed to an unrealistic one such as Runaway Bride).
Linda Hamilton gives one of the most touching and poignant performances of her career; in fact, the entire cast is outstanding!!!!
Another mention is the haunting and poignant music score, that makes me cry.
The result is a beautiful, harrowing, poignant and lovely film that is criminally underrated, for it is by far one of the better Disney live action films.
Maybe the funniest, most intelligent, poignant, true-to-life film I've ever seen.
For a debut feature, w-d Siddiq Barmak delivered a quietly poignant film - it may not be evident at first impression right after seeing the film with the sadness and injustice it burdensomely carries.
When compared to most of the refuse that populates TV land these days, this show is refreshing, fun, poignant and very engaging.
It was just joyful and poignant and above all uplifting.
He speaks his poignant lines with conviction... Bette Davis shows her dreamy side and this film, and it's just as compelling as her bitchy aspect... and Bogart, well, this is the first film in which he really IS "Bogart".
This is a very poignant and moving moment in this movie.
I bought John Denver's album just for the songs 'Lady' and 'Sunshine' which featured in the movie and were used in a very poignant way to show the wonderful love that Cliff De Young's character had for his wife.
Ang Lee's newest Chinese film is both poignant and shocking.
This is a poignant film about today's world and how change can come to a country, any country.
"Poignant" and "bittersweet" aptly describe both films, but the producers of OFF THE BLACK very obviously threw in a few crudities to obtain their desired "R" rating for a movie which could have just as easily been PG13, while THE WRESTLER is definitely a very "hard" R. For what it's worth, I rated the latter story one notch higher than BANG THE UMPIRE SLOWLY, at "9."
although i appreciated a lot about it including great performances by silverstone (ah, those brits ...) and charlotte brittain (who as linda has the most hilarious and poignant mini-soliloquy from the point of view of a "fat girl" i have ever heard) and most of its realism including a great ending, i thought there were several elements which were rather contrived, including a "coming out to the entire school" scene which veered dangerously towards cheesiness.
I could understand their elimination, but when it came to the remainder of the score, gone was Carl-Magnus' solo "In Praise of Women", Madame Armfeldt's biting and nostalgic "Liaisons", and Petra's poignant "The Miller's Son".
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