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Moody, who is also a drifter, is a most persuasive character ( a "skill" he has acquired via his many years on the road) and he has little trouble in tricking the reluctant new owner into parting with the dog.
I was, at first, reluctant to show this movie to my friends.
The crew exists of a reluctant reporter who considers his trip to Burundi as a punishment for ruining a previous assignment, a new and ambitious female reporter who desperately wants to prove herself, the 'token-black-guy' cameraman, the overly self-confident expert who thinks he's even better than Steve Irwin (RIP) and of course the introvert guide who has a personal score to settle with Gustave.
I was reluctant to watch this film because I have never enjoyed films about men in prison.
It could be that the conservative attitudes of 1950s Mississippi made it difficult for young people to feel comfortable with any sexuality at all - Billy Joe wants to have sex with his girlfriend, but that's taboo, and she is reluctant to go all the way, so he jumps at the first chance he sees for real sex, even if that means sleeping with a man.
She has been cast out by her family and is very reluctant to accept the child or Quaid.
Andy (Mickey Rooney) has a month to apply for a scholarship to go to college, so he decides, with his family's reluctant blessing, to go to New York, get a job, and see what life is all about.
A lot of the reviewers pretty well panned this, so I actually was quite reluctant to watch it.
Deby picks up reluctant Nick at same bar and invents a possible future with him to all her girlfriends, whose constant pressure of questions concerning their imminent "engagement" threatens Deby's sanity and self esteem.
Peter Falk gives an amazing performance as a small time Boston bookie who's far too reluctant to enforce the tough tactics of his mob boss.
Having recently portrayed the role of Mr. Whiteside in a local civic theatre production, I was reluctant to view the movie beforehand, so that I might give the pompous "Babys Breath" my own take.
When the police officer Harold Beldon (Robert Redford) is shot in her front door, the reluctant woman opens it and lets him in.
I was reluctant to see it at first, but when I did, it completely blew my mind - the acting, the directing, the writing, the cinematography - perfect! Basically, it is a story of a family woman, Fiona (Fiona Gordon, who works in a fast-food restaurant.
I was also gravely concerned that this show would make the networks more reluctant to take chances on future Sci-Fi oriented series, due to it's quick demise.
Kate is told by Dr. Barker that her Great Great Grandfather was a direct descendant of Countess Elizabeth Bathory & that she must accept her ancestral blood drinking heritage, at first Kate is understandably reluctant to believe what she is being told & thinks everyone is crazy.
After reading many reviews from people who said Scary Movie 4 was crap, I was reluctant to go and see it.
Brian Aherne plays Booth Templeton, an old-time Broadway actor who's reluctant to continue his career now that most of his peers have passed on.
For the first half of the movie, the plot unfolds like many Jackie Chan-away-from-HK flix: reluctant hero, naive sibling, overly-evil Caucasian.
Nick Nolte gives his all and Trevor Morgan, as his reluctant protégé, gives a nuanced performance.
Throughout the comic book series, Dr. Strange gave a much stronger impression of willful mastery of magic, yet here he is rather the reluctant hero, which was never present in the original.
They are reluctant warriors in a war nobody wanted to win or lose.
This is not a matter of squeamishness : most of the film is seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy, a reluctant 'witness' (well, he's usually on the other side of the door) to the various plots, sub-plots and counter-plots.
Polish Vampire in Burbank is the story of a reluctant vampire Dupah (Mark Pirro) who has never sucked blood from a victim before.
Sci Fi TV has rarely, if ever dived so deep into the wellsprings of intellect and drama (moreso than the new BSG, TNG and Firefly - which is saying a lot) Central to the show's grand (7 year) story arc is Benjamin Sisko, the space station's brilliant but somewhat reluctant and disgruntled new commander.
Based on a 1945 play by Harry Brown, this dreary movie moves between standard banter between men in a somewhat stressful situation (the bombed out rubble of a house in Italy) who are ordered out but are reluctant to leave a pinned down member of the platoon, and dream sequences that are painful, and populated by Rita Hayworth look-a-likes.
The victims don't last long enough for you to like and the reluctant hero is just a bit too reluctant.
A real-time interaction between a large group of unusual people including 2 prostitutes and their reluctant and somewhat bizarre client, an all-girl swim team, a large black dog and a scene stealing white chihuahua, and a couple trying to get their knocked-up under age grand daughter laid so they can pin the blame on some poor schmuck and marry her off.
I though it was a western and I find instead a strange community making whisky clandestinely at Ozark Mountains Region, Arkansas,who remind me some people I meet in a trip to North of England, near Kyle of Lochals, very reluctant to contact with foreigns.
You might initially be reluctant to give 'The Glass House' a try if you've been turned off by many recent "thrillers" as they often have been disappointingly by the book.
A tale of a reluctant hero and a bittersweet romance with lots of action and witty dialog, it compares favorably with another, slightly later tale of a reluctant hero and a bittersweet romance, "Casablanca."
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