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Stumbling upon this HBO special late one night, I was absolutely taken by this attractive British "executive transvestite."
I remember stumbling upon this special while channel-surfing in 1965.
He gives hope to all of us bumbling, stumbling, gangly, pale folk who are still searching for that special someone.
Felix Bressart delivers a fantastic performance as Perovitch, a stumbling bumbling shop worker who's life's ambition is to please those he works with.
This 1930's depression era film is a about loyalty, redemption, and one path that you don't want your children stumbling down.
Seriously, 3/4 of this movie focuses on the main character stumbling around, falling down, and then waddling around on the ground like an invalid.
Where's the talent in shouting and stumbling and acting like a fool?
I rented this in hopes of seeing, at the least, a film with some memorable lines or fun moments, and hoped that possibly I was stumbling across an underrated, obscure gem.
But, the actor playing Rimmer was stumbling dreadfully on the character.
Perhaps the most intense scene of the movie, the Darth Maul/Jedi fight, if absolutely ruined by cutting the scene back to Jar Jar stumbling around.
For my enjoyment, the biggest stumbling block of this miniseries is the casting of Victoria.
However, on the 1970's TV show (and the early 90's remake which no one else appears to remember but me), the storyline involved a father and his two kids literally stumbling upon a time warp.
As you watch the movie, you feel like a kid watching late-night TV and stumbling upon something "dirty" that you know you aren't supposed to see.
Film stars out with said chubby little boy stumbling across a van with blood dripping out of the back.
It's hard to buy into her being completely crazy and stumbling around in LA and locked up in a psycho ward, especially if you saw the smile on her face when she pulled the trigger not once, but two times in a chilling scene.
It moves quickly (it's 82 minutes long), is never dull, has good acting and contains many classic sequences: Cagney smacking Mae Clarke in the face with a grapefruit; a massacre that you hear but don't see; Cagney stumbling through a rainstorm.
However the characters seem to be stumbling through their lines & the action equals that of a grade school play.
We only get two CGI top-shots of the Mars-based Alpha City in the beginning and the end of the movie, and we also see some actors stumbling around on a pile of red sand.
Instead we have a half-baked spy spoof with our two heroes stumbling along from one situation to another.
In another scene here is Heston stumbling through the woods.
Stumbling across a gang-controlled apartment to extort money from the locals who are actually kung fu masters in disguise.
His plan to make the journey across the US/Mexico border doesn't pan out as easily as he had planned, running into stumbling blocks that involve street thugs, migrant workers, a heroin addict, near kidnapping and the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service).
Because of the warning of gratuitous violence with the provision that "no one under 17 will be admitted", I found myself stumbling into this movie on the Classic Television Showbiz site.
The final sequence is nothing more than a long series of people falling through doors and stumbling all over the place.
Indeed, Germany's policymakers seem to be stumbling from decision to decision.
Iranian support for Hizbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups that target Israel remains a stumbling block.
Yet China remains the stumbling block, refusing to enter into a water-sharing treaty with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary river flows.
Economic fragility among the world's leading economies is the biggest stumbling block.
Another stumbling block is that India prefers bilateral arrangements with individual member states to dealing with the EU collectively.
When such a moment arrived, totally out of the blue (or so it seemed) with Hezbollah’s raid on July 12, 2006, Israel’s two top politicians were completely out of their depth, stumbling into a war for which neither they nor the Israeli Army were prepared.
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