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One of the things which made the book successful was the way it at least played with the idea of the supernatural.
This must be the worst film Kirk Douglas ever appeared in during his long and very successful career and it's amazing he agreed to do such a lousy film.
This was an early film in the career of Tom Hanks, one of his first successful movies.
Their casting is very successful because it must be hard to pull of such characters.
There have been few entertainment franchises that have as successful and impressive as Batman.
A good example of what you get when a successful actor directs his own movie with himself as the star.
In the 60s, it was ineptly remade as a Doris Day vehicle also successful and equally well crafted but not nearly as much fun.
Her fiancée is the successful young banker Preston Dillard (Henry Fonda), who is climbing in his career with his dedication and work.
Meanwhile, a seventeen years old man has a fatal accident with his motorcycle, and Gary receives his heart, through a successful operation.
I always enjoy the acting of Michael Caine who played (Noel Holcroft),"Surrender",'87, who is an American working in NY on skycrapers and very successful and is drawn into the past horrors of Nazi rule in Europe.
I think we were a successful team because we enjoyed working together tremendously, and that pleasure must have shown through onto the screen," and Grant compliments her with "(Irene) had perfect timing in comedy and was the sweetest-smelling actress I ever worked with."
It seems to be the case these days that successful movies require a sequel.
Scott owed $25,00 in back taxes after publishing his (most successful) book in the Summer of 1943 - during the height of WW II.
Michael Winner must hold the crown for Most Successful Awful Director in film history.
There probably was no way to do the multi-leveled story lines justice except maybe in a ten-hour miniseries, but even so, what can account for Mandy Patemkin's daughter never growing older even though he has made three successful films since the start of the movie?
There have been many over the last century, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple are possibly the best known and most successful.
Lubitsch was very successful with these types of pictures, though--paving the way for the exportation of German films and the emigration of himself to Hollywood.
It looks like the only mission of this film is a "continuation of financially successful idea".
Aside from the lackluster plot, stock characters and painfully unfunny bathroom jokes which seem to run rampant throughout the movie (most of which are so belabored as to remove the possibility of eliciting even a measly chuckle) there is something so weary about the movie that you begin to wonder if it may have been written by an Old Hollywood heavyweight trying to make a comeback in the new century and only succeeding in poorly rehashing the old jokes and stereotypes that made him successful forty or more years ago.
Mr.Pegg and Mr. Moran musta had some bills to pay.This is the worst kind of predictable"feel good" tripe imaginable.Immature boy gets girl,immature boy loses girl to rich successful mature boy and then proceeds to mature to win back girl.Also this film tries to have it both ways,there are plenty anti-American digs lobbed about whilst the film repeatedly has tons of product placement shots for Nike.Gotta laugh at that.Not a complete waste but most of the gags are flat and "been there before" kinda stuff.Shame Mr. Pegg seems to be rotating to this kinda tripe,it would make a "nice" double bill with the almost equally as awful "Hot Fuzz"
It's sense of humor, for those that never had the opportunity to see it, reminded me of a show that came out several years later and was quite successful, Moonlighting.
Extremely few comedians are successful, even fewer for more than a year or two and the majority of those few that are still working the large venues, who prove themselves to be other than just some flash-in-the-pan dressed up in an ill-fitting suit of success by an aggressive publicity team and a gullible, entertainment starved audience; usually build their careers on one or two jokes that they've turned into their shtick: they have a quirky personality that is charming or, at least, familiar.
I am Spanish, and since Paz Vega has rapidly become in the last few years one of my country's most popular actresses, I couldn't help but wish that her jump to Hollywood would be successful.
But the Devil is what will take the series to a successful and better second season.
Jennifer narrates the film and it is totally about her failure at love, it is easy to understand why she is not successful.
It's easy to see that Risa Bramon Garcia is a successful casting director (and not a screenwriter) for dozens of Hollywood films: the best part about this movie is definitely the on-screen talent.
In other words, I can't really tell if this movie was successful at what it was trying to do or not.
This movie is cute!It can also teach other rich spoilt children a lesson!Much thought was put in this movie!The movie started by showing the Callum sisters' lavish and luxurious lifestyle,how they only are concerned about their health,their appearance and mostly about what they can do to make themselves happy.Their father,the owner of a very successful dairy operation,was very disappointed with his daughters but decided to let it go.However,after Taylor and Courtney ruined their house kitchen the father decided to teach them a lesson,they got to work at his factory!When their father goes for a vacation,the company was in big trouble.THe company account was empty,not even a single cent!So,it is up to the Callum sisters to set things right but Courtney has a party to prepare and the sisters have to give up their lavish lifestyles to save the company.The Callum sisters face many problems in the process,like conflicts between themselves and Taylor had to sell her classic stickshift!How do they resolve this problem???
Realistically, how could a successful man who has a beautiful and sexually available wife, two children and a great home, decide to sleep with a stranger and have the audacity to come home without taking a shower?
I'll never forget the line Tyrone Power mouthed as the successful toreador who clawed his way to the top: "Now I don't have to ask the price of anything I want to buy" (or something to that effect).
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