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Deed refuses to kill the drug dealer, which sets up the conflict of a dirty cop with a conscience.
Despite her highly unconventional behavior, Romulus refuses to grant her a divorce, masochistically torturing himself in the vain hope that she will one day return to him.
I guess thats why the main character refuses money though and why the old guy works him like a dog even when he volunteers for extra work.
It's refreshing, in a way, that this movie refuses to follow most of the simplistic and over-worked movie formulas.
Following the good old tradition that Spielberg's "Jaws" started, there's an obnoxious Dean who refuses to admit the problem even though severely mutilated corpses are turning up everywhere.
But after the King is victorious in battle, he refuses to give up his only remaining son, breaking his oath to Boar and betray him and kill him.
Ruben Carter was never, by viewing his actions in the 60's and even now, when he refuses to speak to his son, a person that people can look up to.
After that ordeal, Ariel goes into a lapse of being like her father, and refuses to tell Melody about her mermaid heritage, and later on, forbids her to go near the sea.
No wonder Jose Larraz "disowned" it at one point and refuses to discuss it.
Gray has his actors linger over every tired line and John Carter's lazy editing refuses to pick up the slack, choosing instead to keep his camera trained on the performers' bemused faces.
To console himself Joe tries to buy a porn mag but is shocked when the clerk (Kevin Devoy) refuses to sell it to an underage girl.
Hero refuses to kill defeated foe because he's "better than that".
Because of his oaths taken as a cop, the lead character adamantly refuses to perform one relatively small action that would harm no one and could possibly save lives, and yet performs another action which is very violent and VERY illegal, but then still refuses the minor action.
He refuses and she herself decapitates her brother.
When Hagen still refuses, she decapitates him.
The young lady refuses, despite John slapping her around.
Jenny and Margaret have Chris all to themselves because Kitty believes he is faking and refuses to accept Chris's illness in reverting to his youth in his forties.
Hiralal has ambitions to travel to england and become a barrister just like his dad but his own dad refuses to grant him a scholarship offered to his family by a businessman and instead gives it away to another person saying that the scholarship should not be limited to his family and should be open to the most deserving student living in colony.
The film also shows different conflicts - Gigi and Giancarlo fall in love with the same girl, and although Rosa has to work very hard, Romano refuses to pay money to engage more workers, etc. etc.
When a messanger is sent to ask the pilot to accompany him to heaven, the man refuses and demands to have his "day in court" to argue his case.
The way she pursues her dream and refuses to let anything stop her is, honestly, inspiring.
One is Harry Holt, still in love with her, who with his friend tempts her to come back to civilization with him; the gown and perfumes interest her, but she refuses to leave Tarzan.
Finally the challenge of a world that resists and refuses and tries to force you back into the pack, even with an untimely accident that forces you to get back into the pack for plain survival necessity, and even then Homer proved he had the guts to accept the challenge that was blocking for a while his own plans and dreams.
She is Stella Claire, an independent, free-spirited single woman who gets pregnant and refuses help from her boyfriend (Stephen Collins) or her friend (John Goodman in an underrated performance).
However, this movie to its admirable credit refuses to make Joe out to be simply a vile one-dimensional creep; instead he's a terrifyingly real and ultimately pitiable human monster with a wife and kid (Joe's climactic confession in particular is genuinely poignant).
Someone knocks on his door, and knowing it's Julian, the paid assassin, he refuses to answer.
Diana asks her dad for money to train but he refuses because shes a girl and should do more 'girly' things.
Though once Lok wins, Big D refuses to accept the choice and goes to whatever lengths he can to secure recognition as the new leader.
She refuses him, but when he runs after someone who tries to steal her purse they get together anyway.
Appalled, Kirk and Mendez give chase in a shuttlecraft, which itself becomes dangerous when the Enterprise refuses to answer their calls or pick up the craft until power and oxygen are nearly gone.
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