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In the Gingerbread Man he actually has to work with something that, unfortunately, he isn't always very successful at, or at least it's not the first thing on his checklist as director: plot.
Straight to video was hitting it's strides (you know, where the box covers use the same font and color schemes of successful films).I didn't know what to expect other than what was printed.
The story begins at the funeral of her husband and her consequent decision to live out the rest of her days according to her own wishes after a long life as the wife of a very successful politician.
Glossy MGM soaper has many things to recommend it, not the least of which is a surprisingly grounded, natural Lana Turner (looking great, even in ordinary jammies) playing a successful movie actress who, along with a top screenwriter and director, help producer-on-the-skids Kirk Douglas stage a comeback.
I think the director has been successful to leave the people who watched the movie with a feeling that everyone born just to enjoy every moment they live, not to waste it through horrible hatred feelings.It leaves a message that "HARMONY IS WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS".
This pre-dated the well-known and wildly successful "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" -- some would call it an outright steal or rip-off of "Sherman's March."
These women and especially Reggie Hayes show strong successful Black people who worked their way up to their positions.
I regret to say that my comments cannot be positive because anyone seeing this documentary would be profoundly discouraged about the possibility of a successful cochlear implant.
Tierney is the wife of a successful psychiatrist who is caught shoplifting.
Gillette created the woman-shaving fad in the 1930's as a successful effort to double their razor sales.
Two of the most successful movie musicals adapted from Broadway shows are The Sound Of Music and Cabaret.
By now he is a successful and famous novelist and impulsively decides to wrest back the woman he had deserted.
I doubt any American successful businessman, no matter what his real feelings are, would openly spout such racist & homophobic nonsense in this day and age.
Cannibal Apocalypse is an important Italian horror film as it marks the successful fusion of the two most successful Italian sub-genres; zombies and cannibals.
However, there are some other scenes, clearly going for the big laughs, that are not as successful, like the one with the KKK or the ones in the bank near the end of the film, and they threaten to spoil the fun.
One of the most successful (and equally irritating) TV-formats of recent years is Big Brother, in which a bunch of people, complete strangers to each other, are put together in an isolated location and become forced to get along and accomplish ordeals together.
Some of them weren't successful and Ness and crew were the subjects of much ridicule in the press.
"Dunyayi Kurtaran Adamin Oglu" is much more successful in being a bad movie than Keloglan Kara Prens'e Karsi.
I feel he was able to roll a successful comic career into a sometimes brilliant movie career.
above all else it exists as an exercise in suspense and a very successful one at that.
Many of the key elements that made the orginal successful are missing in this.
BUT.......as a viewer you should remain aware that, in the end, such a goal is not going to be successful.
Within the first five minutes I knew that the two main characters would get together, the rest of the crew would die, and they would be successful.
A critically important component of virtually all successful cinema is suspense, a perception of uncertainty within the viewer as to what may ensue from the events occurring upon the screen, whichever genre, present even when we know an outcome (Apollo 13) if the work is done well; all of which is meant to point to a total absence of suspense in this weakly directed feature, which dully plods from scene to scene until its flat ending.
Less of an adaptation and more of a total reinvention of the successful stage play, the film version of Cabaret is one of the few movie musicals that is almost universally considered to be superior to the Broadway play that inspired it.
Smug, anal, successful and ambitious detail-oriented Wall Street yuppie businessman Bart Hughes (exceptionally well played by Peter Weller in his first lead role) has his cozy and comfortable life thrown out of whack when a large and crafty rat invades his fancy brownstone apartment.
Was Witchboard that successful that he'd be hassled about his obvious sequel to it?
Vincente Minnelli takes the audience on a tour of the "how to make movies" idea in The Bad and the Beautiful, a heartfelt and poignant story about a ruthless producer trying to get back into the position of successful producer with the help of three people he launched careers for.
Much more than a standard horror flick, this touches on the perils of becoming more successful than your friends and the consequences of tough decisions.
In this subtle, yet unsettling compilation of "home movies" created by Wayne & Andrea Montgomery, filmmaker Anthony Spadaccini affirms his instinctive aptitude for creating both a successful cinematic showpiece and an unnerving playground for his actors to perform.
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