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Indian Summer, while full of practical jokes and pranks, is about growing up and coming to terms with life with middle-age life.
So many wonderful actresses in one film serve as a practical invitation to the local movie house so I duly responded.
It was like a terrible practical joke.
Maybe you had to be a camper to really get it, but in the words of one character noticing all her clothes were wet "this is so camp!" From the practical jokes and fighting over boyfriends, to the scary lunch lady and the early morning bell ... it's amp.
Some of the things she makes are not very practical, but that's OK.
I can only hope that it's some huge and elaborate practical joke that all these positive comments have been posted.
This movie was destroyed by its own practical nature--which renders it unpromotable--but it exists somewhere.
The SFX used to portray the Ticks are actually pretty good and they are suitably gross little critters, a case of practical special effect doing a better job than CGI ever could and the gory scenes of them burrowing into the flesh of their victims are quite well rendered.
Eusebius is his practical, balanced side while Florestan is passionate and free-spirited.
Now don't go thinking this film is devoid of personality, why the opening credits star a very talented Tarantula who is for all practical purposes acting very natural.
Her friends were going to play a practical joke on him.
What an engaging, enthralling story: an troubled, insecure man helps a troubled, insecure waitress (troubled and insecure in different respects), and the two form an unlikely relationship from being distant acquaintances (Hunt even exclaims that Nicholson is crazy in their most uncomfortable moment in the film) to practical soul mates (Nicholson to Hunt: "I feel that I'm the only person that knows that you are the greatest woman alive"), through a series of misfortunes, self-explorations, and mutual bondings.
After Jet Li's fans were left disappointed with the fake, CGI-enhanced fighting in Romeo Must Die he decided to go back to practical, hand-to-hand combat with literally no strings attached.
Security rushes in, takes a casual look, and pronounces it a practical joke.
Rather I would like to claim that it gives just an impression of the life Turkish religious orders, society and the mind of a devout religious man who previously led a uncritical life without real challenges and without deep thoughts about practical life and religion.
I can't count the number of times I've seen that same outfit at the beach - it's so practical.
Meryl's Sophie is a person who is naive, jaded, innocent, guilt stricken, soft and gentle, hard as nails, loving and giving, and both practical and poetic to a fault.
As people begin to expire, he gains more and more power, but there is another woman who is, for all practical purposes, his equal.
But in this episode, we get a chance to examine Spock's logic and see how effective (and practical) the Vulcan's ideology really is under pressure.
Not for him the effete air-conditioned acting studio but he learned his acting trade the hard practical way by living the life of a real cowboy.
And Jean Harlow, luminous and intelligent - with a practical notion of love - but playing temptation better than any actor I've ever seen.
But, being a practical (and resourceful) type, she hits on a scheme to keep her in the comfort to which she wishes to become accustomed.
It's amazing to see how insane yet practical Rydell's (Nicholson) methods are.
Alice Hoffman's Practical Magic isn't a very good novel.
Practical Magic -- the movie -- isn't even half as good as the disappointing novel.
I had my bearings and could follow the conversation as it flowed back and forth from the transcendental and almost mystical explorations of Andre to the simple, practical, everyday appreciations of Wally.
"Happy Gilmore" is one of my all-time favourite "guilty pleasures" and he's done a lot of entertaining films that aren't by any means thought-provoking or life-altering but, for all practical purposes, are fun to watch.
On a practical level, it's curious because, although it was completed in 2001, it has yet to achieve a wide release either at the cinemas or on DVD.
Erotic - NO Female nudity - Technically yes about 1 minute in total Sex - NO For practical purposes this was NOT based on the novel by the Marquis de Sade; in fact in the interview the writer admits he rewrote the story to accommodate Tyrone Power's daughter who could not act.
I later learned during the Q&A that all the kill scenes were practical and no computer effects were used.
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