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And for some reason the voices of the characters were not always in sync with the film and most of the actors had slight Mexican accents even when they were not Mexican.
Director Demme and writer Goldman take a footnote to history -- a contested Howard Hughes will that named Melvin Dummar, a milkman who once loaned him a quarter, as one of his heirs -- and turn that slight material into a wry meditation on the American Dream.
The main highlights of the film are its cool 80's pop/rock soundtrack, slight Miami Vice-like feel, and Bob Goldthwait in some scenes.
I had long heard about this movie but I did not have a slight clue of how good it really was.
Not exactly something for the 'whole' family, as the plot of the flick is about the porn industry (with a slight twist).
Andrew Jarecki's BRILLIANT Capturing the Friedman's is one of the slight few other examples I can think of that play that card so well.
Uneven and confusing editing, low-budget effects, and the typical (but with slight twist) ending provide for a sometimes dull and ineffective gross out experience with glimmers of sophistication.
He was also referred to in the press as the only honest man in New York City, an exaggeration, but perhaps only a slight one.
There are one or two slight script errors (which only people who have watched it one thousand times like me would spot!!) but the acting is almost flawless- special nod should go to David Bamber as Mr Collins who has jumped from Miss Austen's 'little square of ivory' direct to the screen!- and all praise to the excellent Alison Steadman and Benjamin Whitrow and there will never be a prettier Lizzy Bennet (sorry Keira!!).
She takes everything personally and never forgives or forgets a slight.
Mary Wickes has far more warmth and appeal than Marjorie Main, Gordon McCrae could sing better than Tom Drake and Gray had a slight edge on O'Brien.
"Fools Rush In" is not funny, not romantic, not cute, it has a slight heart, but that's about it.
This movie was made countless times in the 80's with slight variations: maybe it was "Conan The Barbarian", "Deathstalker", or "Red Sonja."
As I mentioned earlier the premise doesn't break any new ground, and is rather slight.
But, Slade wasn't Robin's father, even though the series made slight hints at that.
I also love the way the three protagonists beat the stupid morals that almost broke them apart, and the open ending makes up for the slight unrealistic aspects that are also present at the finale.
I will give slight props to the janitor/parking lot guy, his acting is a clinic on acting from the eyebrows you cannot miss!!
The only thing going for Hallie is that she looks closer to the age Helen actually was at the time, and she has a slight resemblance to Helen's childhood pictures.
Sharpe's Battle is in my humble opinion, one of the finest entries in the entire movie series and despite the slight hiccup of Sharpe's Gold, shows the team behind them going from strength to strength.
Generally thought to be the first official Laurel and Hardy release(although PUTTING PANTS ON PHILLIP is also put in this bracket),the boys don't wear their Bowler hats and have their heads shaved,but are very much a team in this early effort,more so than PPOP where they play against each other rather than for.There's plenty of amusing incident and situations(especially when they attempt to escape the jail as painters);one slight quibble is that as convicts,the characters they have to play here have a very slightly more unpleasing edge than they would be establishing only a few films later in the partnership.Still funny though,and Jimmy Finlayson's double take and fade away is worth a few more laughs as well here;in early publicity material the boys were sometimes billed as 'Hardy and Laurel' in this film;that soon changed.
I feel awful about not enjoying this film, it's slight and sweet, it's not a hip indie and it doesn't have to be.
If there is any one fault with the film, it is, as one user has already commented, how slight the script is - it's nearly a puff of smoke!
Owen Wilson brings some slight color to his role, almost enough to qualify as a character.
This 1943 effort is a very slight attempt at a musical.
Because of that, I probably had a slight predisposition to dislike the film--though I liked it more than Medved, as it was not even close to being that bad! But, I could easily see that Medved's recounting of how the film was made would conspire to make a poor movie.
Also the song on the end credits "Every Beat Of My Heart" by Jon English is such a cool song.The only slight fault of this movie is that it is a tad too long but hey, we cant hold that against it... so my advice would be to get it despite of the bad comments from others...and definitely check it out if you love eighties style movies and eighties rock music cause there's tons of that cool stuff!!!I should also mention that this film is hard to come by but you should try get it one ebay because it is worth it.The story to it is about a young dude called Vinnie who does boxing in his spare time but keeps getting kicked out of school.His mother is going out with a real scumbag guy because the father died.He often beats her and Vinnie thinks hes no good for her!Vinnies mother asks him to join the school band because she thinks it will keep him busy and off the streets away from all the bad action and maybe help him with a future career!
I was very disappointed and ultimately, bored by this slight joke movie lampooning what should be a sure fire winner comedy.
James Toback's slight film When will I be Loved has two important things going for it: First, shower scenes that linger longingly over the truly impressive dancer's torso of the Neve Campbell.
As if you can't tell that there's a slight tongue-in-cheek feel to the movie.
OK, I gave this movie a 2/10 instead of a 1, for the slight twist at the end.
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