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Tibbett was one of the few stellar performers of the Metropolitan Opera who was equally at home and successful in popular music.
I feel they should have changed the storyline and made her a has been successful movie star trying to make a comeback, utilise some of her character acting abilities and explore the insecurities of a women who had it all and now faces a ageist community like Hollywood which remembers stars for their more famous roles, like Charlie's angels "closer to half a century ago".
As the film progresses Ray Cook (Nick Nolte), in contrast to Dave's father (Timothy Hutton), shows Dave that whether or not you are completely successful the only way to really live life is to engage with its issues, without self-pity.
They make this pledge despite not having change of a match but (so they think) secure in the knowledge that their half brother (Raymond Lovell), who long ago left the village and became a successful businessman, will underwrite the repairs.
He's more successful in directing movies like Leon, The Big Blue, La Femme Nikita.
This is a sequel to one of the most successful erotic movies of all time.
Eddie Murphy is the title character, a reformed felon operating the most successful club in the "Little America" part of the Moon.
This movie was certainly made on a low budget, but I don't hold that against it-- many low budget flicks have turned out to both entertaining and successful.
One more part of the script thats less successful is the insertion of the teenagers, who are there solely to be murdered in various gory ways.
Would be interesting to see if someone else can make a successful remake.
A badly thought out attempt to cash in on a successful series.
It's about a guy who, after being a successful mountain climber, came home and in a daze killed his wife and children, then hung himself.
Instead of a dark successful comedy like 'War of the Roses', we end up with a film that falls flat.
Most people would have given up somewhere along the way with all of the obstacles that befell him while trying to seek a successful career.
Peter Weir made 'The Cars That Ate Paris' about the same time as 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (which was much more successful at the box office and won a lot more critical acclaim).
Probably the most successful adaptation I have seen of a challenging work (with the proviso of not having read the actual work and citing familiarity with his oeuvre).
The 1922 version was so successful a sequel was made by producer Lewis Selznick, the father of tonight's film producer David O. Selznick!
This movie is one of the least known of all their successful runs.
That would be another story, so the successful reunion at the end of the film was satisfying.
A couple soon going to be married has to complete a Marriage preparation course made compulsory by a Reverend Frank for 100% guaranteed successful marriage & it's not an easy ride.
Also, the structure of the novel, which although overwhelming, is supremely successful, and is again lost in the film.
This film is far more ambitious in its scope than it is successful in delivering its message.
I think it would have been more successful had it had more obvious action with a cat you could see and less talk, and "if the panther was black.".
Baron is a wealthy, successful Jewish business exec and Nora is a waitress at a hamburger joint.
And having Farrah Fawcett play a women who is the world's most successful actress/singer?
Dames like me!" Ladd plays Lucky who is a charming, good looking and very successful racketeer who is trying to avoid the draft.
But it is underrated, how come "No mans land" was so successful in the world (it even got an Oscar), and this one is not?
The film-making is astonishingly avant garde despite this film working as a mainstream movie, with its magnificent and shocking, but successful, camera angles, its bold editing, and all the rage and pain of youth going to create a raw classic.
Bram is the author of one successful book, being hounded by his publisher to produce a second.
A rail link between South Korea and Siberia, to carry Korean and Japanese goods west and Russian resource exports east, may be but one positive result of any successful deal he may broker on the Korean peninsula.
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