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While Porky spends most of the cartoon being dumped on by everyone, he finally gets the last laugh in one of the most satisfying final moments in any cartoon.
Comparatively, Hollywood spends millions to make a movie.
As a nice extra bonus, the lovely Maureen Flaherty as a sleeping psychic spends all of her screen time completely in the buff.
Dubbed "Then There Were Giants" on cable, this made-for-tv two part film spends three hours presenting a theatrical digest of the communication which ostensibly took place between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin during WWII.
Oh yes this is a very cynical ploy of selling a few records and left me thinking this was the only function of the movie which apart from the beautiful Lisa Raye who spends much of the movie either topless or dressed in a bikini is mainly a waste of time
Jerry Zipkin, ineptly played by Zalman King spends most of the film delivering his lines like he has to go to the bathroom.
Geary spends most of his time in his room taking photos of his neighbors at the apartment house across the street.
Not a "thriller", this psychodrama spends most of its time dwelling on the criminal mind of the abductor, the anxiety and angst of the abductee's boyfriend, and flashbacking to show what transpired from the abductor's perspective after setting up the story with the boyfriend's perspective.
The kind-hearted madam has kept her business a secret from fetching young daughter Margaret Marquis (as June Ashley), who spends her time in finishing school.
The fact that a shark is running amok is almost completely ignored by the director, who spends more time concentrating on the nudity and the background scenery.
Tommy is taken from his family by an Amazon tribe called "The Invisible Ones" and father Bill spends ten years searching for him.
His journey to downtown New York goes hideously wrong when he loses his taxi fare and spends the rest of the evening trying to get home.
Unfortunately, the former is given the short end of the stick in this irritatingly static production which spends an undue amount of time indoors.
She spends the ENTIRE series discussing these horrendous relationships, for which she is obsessed.
Some extra-dark version of Samuel L. Jackson spends over an hour berating an investigator with severe cystic acne scarring.
As she spends more time around the school, Heather has nightmares and hears strange voices, and is told the story of some witches who took over the school 100 years ago.
Romina Powers spends the duration of the film like the vacant window dressing that she is as Justine, a nubile young virgin whom after being cast out of an orphanage and into a depraved cruel world, in this muddled adaption of one of Marquis de Sade's writings.
The guy in the wheelchair spends the movie looking through binoculars at the Bigfoot hanging around outside the girls' cabin.
Melvin divorces her, takes her back and she's off again mostly because Melvin spends like a drunken sailor.
My problem is, it just goes to far with it and spends waaay to much time there, over a third of the film, about 40 minutes and then cleans it all up in less than 10.
The lead child actor, Joseph Cross, spends the entire film (with the exception of one scene) with a depressed scowl on his face.
This film spends viewer time on what's important.
title of the film is "the third miracle." the priest spends the whole damn film trying to find the third miracle.
Jack Carter (Sylvester Stallone), a trained killer, spends a third of his journey using violence to learn the truth of his brother's death.
Basically, Bogart spends most of the time trying to create sympathy for his client.
She is eventually picked up by the cops with the rest of her friends, spends some time in jail where she freaks out but doesn't reveal the seller and his whereabouts.
In this cheesy cheapie, we meet Henry Fudd, a middle-aged Jewish voyeur who lives with his kvetching mother and basically spends his time ogling horny couples "doing it" in the great outdoors of L.A.
Just look at the genres its listed under on its page (and believe me, the film spends plenty of time in each of them).
She spends the whole first half of the movie wallowing in a pool of alcohol and self pity because she caused the death of her best friend in a drunk driving accident.
Spade is a redneck, left in the Grand Canyon by his parents, and he spends the rest of his life trying to find them.
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