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But, since he is a minor player on the map of royal match-making, can he succeed in winning her heart?
You will care about these two likable but deeply suffering people and hope that they will succeed because it's in doubt and all hangs on a tenuous emotional thread.
This show will succeed because it appeals to all adults no matter where they are in their relationship.
When one takes a clearly sober, rationally well-balanced view here, from the perspective of God's own attitude, all it actually amounts to is a fervent wish that the one forgiven will ultimately succeed at finding his way, seeing the light, and being granted mercy.
It sounds so simple, the growing of the chemistry, I think other romantic films might think that they succeed to track the development, but to me - who doesn't believe in Nora Ephron - Before Sunrise is the first film to really gives the viewers chance to feel it.
Can this man succeed in his quest for redemption?
The story is timeless, young people try to succeed against all odds.
It's a good thing to know that they succeed in doing something emotional out of it.
"Just Cause", while not a horrible film, takes too many liberties with the original material that Jeb Stuart didn't quite succeed in his treatment.
She doesn't come across as a very sympathetic character at first, but seeing the whole film, you just want her so succeed.
This sort of thing is easy to try but hard to succeed at.
With the Dentist, they succeed once more to bring an entertaining and very chilling thriller.
However, her character's fatal flaw is its willing to believe what isn't there -- that her boyfriend wants her to succeed -- and this is what leads to her end at the movie theatre.
However, although the movie tries to show the political life in its reality, it doesn't completely succeed.
For a drama to succeed, it needs not only a hero, but a really believable villain.
To him, both men HAD to die for his book to succeed.
While I appreciated the cinematography, I am afraid that this element alone is not enough to succeed to make a commercially viable film.
We see the seedy side of life yet we're given little explanation why Stahl and his friends are so belligerent against hope, without any imagination or the drive to get out and succeed.
If you do that, it will succeed.
The situations are conspicuously overdone to drive the underlying story, but the side walk interviews do succeed in neutralizing this potentially myopic trap.
Not many would come up with The Passage, primarily because it's a largely forgotten film which didn't succeed critically nor commercially even when it was originally released.
The bad guy is the secretary of Defense and he is plotting to kill the president and everyone who would succeed him at the Stae of the Union address.
The only way a new version would succeed would be if Potter's scenario was given a different interpretation that would provide a new perspective on the story of Depression-era salesman Arthur Parker's passionate belief in the sunny lyrics of the songs he markets despite his bleak life.
The shooting style is very "clipesque", camera is always moving, lights are totally artificial, very nervous, but it doesn't succeed in hiding the drawbacks of the scenario.
The origin of my favorite superhero has been overdone so many times and yet the filmmakers easily succeed to bring new insight and depth to the man that is the bat.
Both these movies are MUCH better written and succeed in sweeping the viewer away to a magical world of adventure, while Kismet just seems pretty but dopey--in fact, REALLY dopey.
We judge the success of semi-documentaries from the extent to which they succeed in satisfying these two objectives.
I read in interviews that the filmmakers looked upon this movie as more of a joke; if that's the case they didn't really succeed.
When the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda begins, Bernard does not succeed in escaping with Gentille to Canada.
It skirts right around some interesting and important social & economic issues, preferring instead to attempt to create an illusion of hip-hop, street-gang cool - which it fails miserably to succeed with.
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