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I think it is a fine tribute to relief workers and others around the world who both in the present and in the past have risked their lives (and I am sure many a time their sanity) trying to lend a hand in hopeless, horrible places and situations (where people are starving to death, or are displaced because of war, or are dying of preventative diseases, etc. etc. etc.) Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen are spectacular, and portray very well the constant obstacles and risks involved with just SIMPLY TRYING TO HELP OTHERS IN NEED AROUND THE WORLD (whether it be trying to acquire funding from rich and powerful people and countries, or having to negotiate with warlords and governments just to get supplies through, etc., etc.).
Unlike other productions which portray the creature as a horrible, despicable monster, this movie attempts, with some success, to show the creature as a victim of circumstances.
Even worse is the couple who portray Paige's parents (look more like her grandparents).
A Distant Thunder uses fiction to portray the very real problem that our society seems to accept as normal, partial-birth abortion, Dilation and Extraction (D & X.)
I like Jack Lemmon (see "The Apartment")but not in this movie.I also like Carol Burnett,but she misses the mark this time.The sex of the characters that Jack Lemmon and Susan Sarandon portray are flipped in this movie.I think the characters were funnier and ahead of their time in "His Girl Friday".
The film utilizes a combination of live action footage and stop action animation techniques to portray the lives of six people whose lives are dictated by their disturbing sexual fetishes.
Most of these actors were under contact to act and portray characters of different races other than themselves which is not practiced in this century in Hollywood.
However, there are a few of her friends, who I say bravo too, through illness and divorce they show great courage, however somehow the films doesn't portray bravery and courage, it documents how little women have grown.
I'm getting really tired of movies that portray a Ghost as a modern-day "The Riddler" from the Batman TV series!
The whole cast look older than the characters they portray are.
The aging "second generation" cast members look awkward, particularly Spanky McFarland, who is really too old to portray a kid.
The role of asoka in this movie required someone with a wide range of acting skills, to portray the different shades of the character(asoka), as he progress through his life.
That said, it was nice to hear Alastair Sim once again portray the lead character as he had done in the 1951 version.
I saw Clean Shaven about ten years ago and it has always stayed in my mind not least because it committed to celluloid one of the most toe-curling scenes I have ever witnessed but because it managed to portray a man who is mentally broken.
The movie is fine, but what makes me flush it down the drain is that the people creating it portray it as a true story, when it is in fact BS! Kevin Mitnick never caused money loss or economical losses for the companies claimed.
This movie tries to portray itself as a factually based movie based on actual facts.
Children tend to portray people's consciousness, with their fresh and honest innocence.
OK. Let's start this by saying that I am from Belfast and although I haven't ever lived in a nationalist "district" like the one this film tries to portray I am fairly aware of what happens in parts of Belfast.
In fact, the totality of the words already used are only the merest fraction of those required to accurately portray the near total devastation that washed over me as I sat through it (I'm ashamed to say not for the only time) on a stormy night 14 years ago.
Also, while the other songs weren't sleazy like this one, they did seem to portray the actors and actresses as happy little children.
While it purported to portray the Monkees' story, the plot was weak or nonexistent.
There was no real sense of place or time, no sense of the 60's, and it did not accurately portray the sheer hysteria that surrounded the group.
If one knows though the lengths to which the filmmaker is ready to portray his audio-visual interpretations on screen one might appreciate it a little more if they just happen to stumble upon it.
If you have read Patton's autobiography and some books about him; it is easy to see where someone could portray him as a neurotic.
you just don't see this like the movie tries to portray it.
In the end an overlong, over-pretentious movie and evidence if it was needed, that the best way to portray rock star excess is with parody, e.g.
Like in many of their previous movies twins again failed at their latest attempt to portray themselves as serious actors.
Supporting cast members Rowlands and Lewis portray characters who are also manless but with contrastingly better coping skills.
I think the movie tried to portray Frank as a victim of circumstance where he tries to go straight but is pulled back into crime by the bad influences around him.
Brad Dourif seemed like he wanted to portray a tough guy by cursing and acting like a fool.
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