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I mean, we can all empathize with getting a pound of flesh back out of a greedy lawyer, but why did the prostitute have to die?
Other obstacles include an 800 pound weight and Sylvester's miscalculation in the distance from his building to Tweety's in using a rope to swing from one place to another.
The story is basically about two down on their luck bums who spend most of the movie trying to raise enough money to get Steps dog, Spot(alternate title) out of the East Vancouver dog pound!!
Basically an opportunity for pure hearted Young White Americans to pound the bejesus out of filthy Brown Skinned Drug Dealers, this Reaganesque paean to Manifest Destiny is boring and offensive.
I wouldn't have had a clue about the "five pound potty" line, but for a friend who was the right age and had grown up in the south.
His snarky mannerisms are enough to make you want to pound his face with a brick!
warns the boy menacingly that he didn't see a thing, gives him a twenty pound note and sends him on his way.
All of this does not make THE WRECKING CREW a great movie but it is a highly enjoyable one and certainly the best of the Helm movies.Dean Martin seemed to be having fun as he always seemed to in this role and pound for pound this as good a spoof of the 007 movies as anything in the Austin Powers films.This is as Hollywood 60s as it is possible to get.As relevant to its era as "California Dreamin'."I'm
Instead of renting this movie buy some rusty nails and pound them into your noggin.
At first all she want's to eat are flies which is fine, but she begins to grow (it's flower pot must also have the ability to grow as well) & quickly moves onto frogs, then it's dogs from the local pound.
I bought this film on DVD from the pound shop for, yes, one WHOLE English pound.
"Sexual Roulette" makes the film sounds rather intriguing, but the version I bought was under the alternate title "weekend in Vegas" which is I feel rather dull in comparison, but for a pound I wasn't going to complain.
I think there a load of copies left at the pound shop....
I bought this film from a local pound shop so I cant say I'm surprised at how bad it was,but I have had some enjoyment out of this film.
See the monster with half a pound of Silly Putty on his face and yarn for hair!
And even today, when ever I go to a pet store with dogs (even cats now), or when I went to a pound twice to get a new pet, I can not stay in there for long before my voice breaks and I start shedding tears.
Beck was a 200 pound nurse who met sleazy Fernandez through a lonely hearts correspondence.
But pound for pound, John Hughes was never better and never will be again, most likely.
Dying for a quarter pound of weed seems a little excessive for a jail, however, if only that had happened the suffering could have turned to slight laughter with mild nausea.
The morning after I watched this barrel scraped 'slasher'; I woke up to a hefty £200 pound fine for unpaid parking tickets that I was unaware that I had ever received.
The highlight of the film is definitely when Hercules (Arnie) dukes it out with a "600 pound Grizzly bear".
The exit by the British pound and Italian lira in September 1992 from the European Monetary System gave those two countries spurts of growth.
Industrial supply chains would be disrupted, the construction industry would be denuded of its EU workers, the City of London would lose international importance, the pound would continue depreciating, and the public sector – particularly the National Health Service – would be stretched thin.
They pointed to the big post-referendum depreciation of the pound, which promised to make British exports more competitive and offset any problems with the transition to a new trade regime.
Consumers, seeing the pound depreciate, front-loaded their spending in the second half of last year, because they understood that import prices would rise.
The single currency was conceived as an answer to the upheavals of the postwar period – double-digit inflation, high unemployment, and speculative attacks on the pound, the lira, and the French franc.
Creditors demand their pound of flesh; debtors clamor for relief.
Indeed, part of the reason the United Kingdom’s economy has held up well (so far) since last year’s Brexit referendum is that the pound fell sharply, boosting competitiveness.
Schlesinger’s unguarded remarks signaled that the Bundesbank was not willing to do whatever it took to preserve the system – a signal that encouraged investors to place massive bets against the British pound and Italian lira.
But the British pound is sinking, the cost of financing UK government debt is rising, and the process of actually withdrawing from the EU could be highly destructive.
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