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The reality is that Paris has a fairly minimal part, she spends the vast majority of the movie off screen.
A young man from poor beginnings dreams of being a hero, and spends most of his time training and learning about kung fu and bodybuilding, much against his father's will.
The amount of time a director spends on the making of a film is very seldom appreciated, the extras on the DVD gives an excellent insight to the making of a film.
The central character is a well-meaning but clumsy writer who spends the whole film trying to help those he befriends on a train from Stockholm to Berlin just after World War II.
This film is about Xavier, an Erasmus exchange student from Paris who spends one year in Barcelona.
This spends a lot of time on the physical training, in preparation for the fighting and such.
Though it's a Christmas movie, "Christmas in Connecticut" could have been done any time of year, as it's the story of a soldier who spends what is to be an idyllic time with a Martha Stewart type.
The film would be stronger if Robert Ames' character had been played by a more powerful actor (he's too low-key for a self-made salesman and he spends most of the film with his face turned away from the camera), and if Ricardo Cortez had been given more to do than smile ironically.
It borrows the main premise--a man has been poisoned and spends the rest of the film trying to find his killer.
The one disapointing aspect of this documentary is that it spends little time on D'amato's Horror films like Anthropophagus and the brilliant Buio Omega.
It spends too much time on the erotic cinema and hardly touches the post-apocaplyptic films.
Meanwhile, Anne spends pretty much the entire film looking hesitant, perturbed, or downright ready to burst into tears.
By some lucky chance, she gets friendly with the old Judge, who spends time listening to the private telephone talks of his neighbors.
Between Minnie, a disillusioned museum curator whose abusive married boyfriend dumps her and leaves her even more uptight and confused than she already was, and Seymour Moskowitz, a parking attendant so desperate for attention that he spends his nights going to bars and restaurants aggravating people, there is a chaotic and disenchanted match from the start.
The film spends a lot of time in the sewage of organized crime, drugs, prostitution and other vices, but it retains interest through the creativity of its action scenes and the now-startling lack of political correctness.
A promising student and athlete who spends all his time training and studying-well it's understandable that he'd want to try teenage life(the crazy side of it) and in his efforts as what begins is helping his friend he ends up addicted because he wanted to see what it is all about and because of his horrendous family situation which results in his most tragic death.
this documentary also spends lots and lots of time detailing how stunts were done and the new technologies created to achieve them.
Bruce Campbell spends the rest of the film trying to avenge his death and has many internal arguments between himself and the KGB agent.
He spends time "over there" in World War One trenches.
For reasons best known to himself and which are inconsistent with a man who has no interest in anything or anyone, Servillo spends a certain amount of time every day applying a stethoscope to the wall of his bedroom and listening to the private conversations of his card-playing partners.
Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) spends her days working on the computer and has never gotten to know her neighbors.
She spends the majority of the movie trying to make sense of her visions.
His father is a pastor who changes his outlook on life and he spends the whole movie sharing his new-found love for others in this shocking and heartwarming movie.
She spends the whole film wondering how she looks, are her blue eyes refracting light at the correct angle, do all the fellas lust after her, etc.
Sean is killed (or is he?), and Cassie spends the rest of the movie coping with loneliness and guilt (she was driving) when she's not being haunted by Sean's ghost or chased by those motiveless creepy guys.
"The House of Seven Corpses" is dead at frame one, and spends the rest of its 89 minutes going through rigor mortis, dragging us along for every aching second...
I can't stand when Hollywood spends millions of dollars on flash bang equipment and uses fancy editing and cool music, and does not bother to have a plot that hangs together at even the most basic level.
Burton is married to a literary critic who spends her evenings penning poisonous reviews and who treats her husband with total contempt.
Michael Bowen spends most of the film spying on the other characters and misjudging all of them.
He spends a week at a fancy hotel and meets Anna Penn a teacher who just happens to also be getting married.
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