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The Book of Caleb is a successful, wildly entertaining coming of age film.
I do hope the one young lady who lost her sister in the crowd was successful in finding her, though.
The result is about as successful as when Lana Turner traded her blonde mane to become a brunette in "Betrayed".
As much as I like Milla Jovovich, I think this could have been a much more successful franchise if Jill Valentine was kept the main character, not some fictitious woman caught in the middle.
The obsequious captain, played by John Malkovitch, at the same time he is entertaining three successful European business woman, played by Catherine Deneuve, Stefania Sandrelli and Irene Pappas, who recount their life experiences in their own languages, intrudes unwantedly on the teacher and daughter... and won't be deterred.
I think I was successful in most cases, many people thanked me.
George S. Kauffman & Moss Hart's GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE was one of Broadway's most successful comedies of the early 1940s, a bright and witty tale with a slightly Americana tone that World War II audiences found particularly appealing.
And Donald Sutherland is properly lovable as a successful pickpocket and thief (I loved his snapping his knuckles to make his hands more limber) who allies himself with Connery to carry off the theft.
Following their hugely successful and equally brilliant No Country for Old Men the Coens have returned to their all too familiar territory: the black comedy.
Primo (Tony Shalhoub) Rather live for his art for fine food than be successful, while Secondo (Stanley Tucci) tries to keep Primo and himself above water while being tempted by the extravagances of owning a successful Restaurant.
Okay, there are some lines that promote the propaganda of the positive effects of Army life but otherwise, Buck Privates was a fine beginning of A & C's successful movie career.
Joseph Cotton and George Sanders were at the end of fairly successful film careers and about to be relegated to guest appearances on a variety of television shows; the most notable being Sander's Mr. Freeze on "Batman".
Better Midler gives a smashing, touching, tear-the-house-down dynamic and exhilarating Oscar-nominated performance as the Rose, a fabulously wealthy and successful popular rock superstar sensation who's been burnt-out and worn down by too much long hard time on the road, too much booze and drugs (Rose likes to swig Southern Comfort straight from the bottle while performing live on stage), too many cameras in her face and too much time spent recording songs in the studio at the expense of having a meaningful and fulfilling personal life, all of which leaves Rose feeling terribly lonely, unhappy and unloved.
This was a good show in between the "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" years that was supposed to be a reboot for the successful English "UFO" series of The Late '60s / Early '70s.
After the long success of The Simpsons, Matt Groening and his cartoon creators decided to make another successful series, and they did.
It's a terrific story, enhanced only a little by the fact it's true, and if you're able to imagine a remake of this film, I don't see how it couldn't be successful.
They cut to years later when Holmes is a world famous detective and Watson is married and a successful doctor.
The funny thing about that is, that history proved that wrong, Arnold actually turned out to be an extraordinary actor with a successful career.
In "Speedway," Elvis plays Steve Grayson, a successful race car driver who's generous to a fault.
Alex is attacked and savaged by the animal, and made permanently lame as a consequence, and his offer of a ten thousand dollar reward for the beast if captured unharmed is soon claimed by successful Siamese beaters, following which the hunter keeps the caged mankiller at his remote palatial home while preparing for a rematch.
Later, after marriage Ruth and Martin get even bigger and she has become one of the most successful women on stage, and her career soon comes to Hollywood.
The best performance in the film is given by Edward Everett Horton as the square successful advertising man.
This is a GREAT show - finally strong, independent, successful women on TV.
We can all learn from watching Nico and Co, who in the show does with the usual problems successful women have to deal with, such as jealousy of their partners or macho-colleagues.
On a cheap blood and guts level, "Stiletto Dance" is successful.
He no more worshipped the devil than I do but he knew a potentially successful schtick when he saw it; a schtick he readily admits to having parlayed into 24 years of personal appearances, a mammoth "satanic" church, and hundreds of YouTube videos and BlogTalkRadio shows.
My brother, who is in the film trade in Hollywood, told me Bullock had fired her manager or agent, after drawing lots of attention for a few successful roles.
Ann Miler (as Eve) is a popular radio singer who wants to vacation after a successful season; but, her handlers want her to film a movie.
Really an excellent little film, it reads like an update of DARLING in that it details the vacuous inner life of a young woman whose physical appearance is her only quality but one which take her around the world as a successful model and to the very pinnacle of her profession.
The ingredients of the recipe are quite simple: you take a famous actor that already stared in a few cult/art movies, namely Bruno Ganz and have him play after a script written by a famous screenwriter who was behind many successful art movies, namely Tonino Guerra and add the name of a famous director already acclaimed as a master on the whole thing and you have...this.
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