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He spends much of his time tormenting Jerry with his rope tricks until a cute female cat shows up (the same one that periodically shows up in their cartoons).
Actually, it's hard to call this a "role" as she spends most of her time in a trance lying on her back.
Other name star cameos include Rance Howard as a one-armed white-trash gas station attendant, Bo Hopkins as (what else?) a sheriff who spends a lot of time driving and walking around in the woods, and Gary Busey as a strange guy who chops up chickens.
If you ask anyone who spends a lot of time in the outdoors, it won't be long before you find someone who has a tick story about a disturbing place they have found one (or more ..).
YOUNG SOUL REBELS is basically the same , it starts with a murder in a park then spends most of its running time going out of its way not to be a murder thriller except for the last five minutes which reveals who the murderer is .
You won't see many movies teaming with this much humanity, much less one that spends most of its time in the housing projects of East New York, Brooklyn.
Most of these tourist types were just bumming around other islands until they ran across Tisa Farrow, who asked if she could bum a ride to this place as she spends her summers there caring for a young blind girl.
She spends most of her screen time in a series of splendid period gowns uttering banalities that barely suggest the emotional states of her character.
The film spends too much time on the relationship of Moon and Wai.
An honest hero is framed for something he didn't do and spends the rest of the movie trying to clear his name and out the real spy...
His facial expressions, acting abilities, delivery, etc., are all top-notch, and he can make even mundane topics such as walking through the woods pee-your-pants hilarious (in fact, he spends a long time talking about the woods, which is a bit puzzling, but hey, it's funny).
He's raised by his mother in Chicago and spends some time in the Army in Special Ops.
Michael Dudikoff stars as a police officer who spends the entire woman stalking his estranged wife (Savina Gersak), who is in the clutches of psychotic hitchhiker Mark Hamill, seems Hamill wants to go to the loony bin and wants Gersak to be his wife (This movie is so silly.)
Well, if Pat and Chris from Saturday Night Live-fame had a child, it would resemble Pod People's little femme boy waif, Tommy... a bug collecting, perky little blonde he/she that spends too much time to itself... of whom finds itself more comfortable with circa 1970's shag-carpeted, peanut-snorting, karate chopping aliens, rather than his alcohol-soaked uncle (I think) and his Bonnie Frankin (One Day at a Time TV series) haired mother.
A portrait of a "regular" guy, who spends his days barely getting by in a series of dead-end jobs, and his nights perfecting his comedy routine in a series of sparsely-attended "open-mike" sessions at local comedy clubs, this film fails to deliver anything but a depressing series of vignettes centered around it's main character, played by Frank Whaley (who also wrote and directed).
The flick follows in the path of Kevin Smith while at the same time blazing it's own unique path by putting a spin on the classic romantic comedy rules, i.e. the boy spends the whole movie trying to get the woman who he has no chance of getting and instead puts the female character in that most unenviable situation.
Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) spends four years in prison for his killing of a sheriff's deputy.
in a movie that robert duvall wrote, directed, and starred in, he spends a lot of time chuckling with a smile on his face.
Barney finds himself falling for pretty student reporter Bernadette (Felice Schachter) while Peyton spends the movie lusting after sexy but snooty Jane (Heather Thomas).
Wesley spends most of the movie looking like he's drugged and regretting something - like signing up for this flick.
That night, Larry (Bill Williams) spends the night there.
His basic premise is deceptively simple- a nervous but completely professional and slightly worn-down cop, played by a young & trim Toshiro Mifune, gets his gun pick-pocketed on the subway, and he spends at least half of the film on his own looking for it.
He leads a team of incredibly dumb terrorists into a waterplant and will pollute the water unless blah de blah blah.... Cue (Jeff Fahey) the Worst Hero ever...Jeff spends most of this movie talking about his brie omelette's and generally Hiding behind (Carrie Ann Moss )..Yes Folks John McClaine he Certainly ain't ..
So, as she sits in jail she spends all her energy thinking about how to hurt this one particular man--which makes no sense since they never even met in the film.
This film is total zero (nula, nada...): no story, no (sensible) dialogs (concentrate on dialogs just for a try!), no acting (just ever smiling Alan), no action, no nothing... Some directors can tell an interesting story in the usual 90 minutes, while Andrew Bujalski spends 110 minutes to tell you ... nothing.
The film begins with intertitle cards which indicate that a doctor has a spoiled son who spends money like mad.
In a decay neighborhood, the asthmatic and allergic amateurish photographer Marvin Montrose (Karl Geary) spends his days and nights confined in his room snooping his neighbors in the next building with his camera.
A delightfully lyrical tale, the film spends time with the eccentric father suffering from terminal writer's block, the step-mother who likes to romp in the altogether, a sister who marries Cassandra's love, a handyman/boy who loves Cassandra, and sundry other characters.
It spends an inordinate amount of time on people jabbering along, scientists trying to figure out what gave dead people radiation burns, et cetera, et cetera.
The painting hangs in a museum, and he spends day after day in there just staring at it and eventually feels himself drawn into the painting.
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