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In fairness, when they could escape the preposterous plot and the consequent absurdities there are some genuinely powerful moments- the depiction of people slowly starving to death is convincingly done and moving, but these only show up the rest of it even more.
Instead they are starving and "robbing Peter to pay Paul".
Conversations like: "You must follow the rules" "No, the people are starving."
They'd better use it to feed some starving families in the third world countries.
There are just too many starving actors in Hollywood.
Paul Le Mat, Diana Scarwid, Louise Fletcher, Wallace Shawn: fine actors who must have all been starving to death at that point in their lives and the director lured them to sign on with tempting bits of cat food.
They are hunted and starving.
In the film, Lumumba, we see the faces behind the monumental shift in the Congo's history after it is reclaimed from the Belgians, and we see the motives behind those men into whose hands the raped and starving country fell.
these wine makers are not starving wine makers but they know like all great wine makers that it's about where the grapes are from.
Watkins films everything in a documentary style, which causes for more than a little awkwardness or required strong suspension of disbelief: how is it that the camera crew is with the group of starving and parched prisoners over 2 days without either offering help or sharing in their misery?
After nearly starving and/or dying of thirst he came upon a leopard which somehow became his bosom buddy.
Bullets are flying and bodies are dying in a gun skirmish over the opening credits, where the intensity of the film never lets up throughout the duration, focusing on grim faces, worn out soldiers with next to nothing to eat, a terrified population under occupation, starving children with petrified mothers, all cast in an immense landscape of endless white snow.
In the reading I have done about the disease (especially Cherry Boone O'Neill's wonderful book, Starving for Attention) anorexia appears to be a disease of control.
During WW2 in the Philipines, Japanese soldiers are starving, dying, growing weak, and becoming more and more insane.
Expecting open arms and welcoming offers there were only a few who managed to succeed and find their way to stardom, majority then condemned to live starving, disillusioned and unwanted, searching for a bit of respect in dirty bars and nasty hotel rooms.
I'm certain that some starving kids in Africa could have used the money squandered on this project.
Or a bad painting you bought at a starving artists' sale.
Give this one a pass, it's like a million other miles of bad, wasted film, money that could have been spent on starving children or Aids in Africa.....
Not only is he uneducated, he is starving.
I am starving for some good television and I applaud TNT for providing these "opportunites".
They weren't industry names, but they weren't exactly starving, either.
Only when the workers from the asylum found in a prison cell, starving, does the film have any real impact.
Once he is at home, Dona Lola, his scolding wife, wants to know why the Colonel refused the money when both of them are starving.
This is the story of a starving young artist who finds he's won the lottery just as his creditors come calling.
The titular student, starving in an empty garret, makes a deal with the Devil-- the Devil gives him a bottomless sack of gold, in exchange for "anything in this room."
Nick (Aire Verveen), a young Irish starving drifter, is helped by Joe (Edward James Olmos), the owner of a small fish market in New Jersey, and his wife Betty (Maria Conchita Alonso).
Every Flaming Lip fan and starving rocker will appreciate this fiery saga.
I agree with the critics who lambasted 'Beyond Borders', a film with the intellectual depth of an infomercial that portrays starving children to elicit donations.
It seems that the community founded by the Goodmans needed magical assistance if their unfertile land and people starving were ever gonna yield any satisfying results..in comes the Warlock to fulfill their needs, with his magic book of spells as a tool to help the community thrive and land fertile.
He can be forgiven only if he is able to prove that at that time he was starving.
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