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Things threaten to spiral out of control in the plausibility department as the film progresses; our good-natured suspension of belief finally comes crashing down during the preposterous ending.
However, blackouts, delirium, and rejection threaten to thwart his efforts.
Lyon is excellent at playing the young girl he loves and then the more worldly wife, though her 3-pack a day voice does threaten to give her away at any given moment.
Her life comes crashing down, especially when her kids, namely her oldest son, find out the truth and threaten to leave her.
Lauren Bacall, (Rose Cullen) comes to the aid of Luis Denard by picking him up and at the same time falling in love with him and then proceeds to help him escape from an angry crowd of English Mine Workers who threaten his life.
However, things are not that simple as the cloth will threaten the way of life of many people, including cloth manufacturers, the cloth mill's workforces, and even an old lady that does her washing every week.
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.
Upon receiving their new assignments each new episode, the duo go about fighting the glob goo spewing vermin that threaten the earth, but not before Martin ruins any new experiment M.O.M. is working on in her office each time they arrive to take their assignment.
I have to laugh at the guy above who wrote that he's not gay, so he likes the movie because it doesn't threaten him.
I AM gay, and the movie doesn't threaten me at all.
Also the scene in the park where Harrison is checking out kids playing sends that old "gay people will threaten your innocent children" message.
It does not threaten to break out with an MTV montage designed to push music product.
It is the story of a group of extortionists who threaten to destroy an off-shore drilling rig and production platform in the North Sea unless they are paid an exorbitant sum of money.
Perhaps the cycle will return and will get away from Gangsta rappers and back to a style of entertainment that celebrated life rather than threaten it.
Having just seen this for the first time, I was pleasantly surprised; this is a solid, well-acted and scripted, somewhat tongue-and-cheek but scary horror/sci-fi film with a premise simutaneously nightmarishly banal/outrageous: a petty American criminal (looking like a cheap burley thug, the kind who would "threaten" George Reeves on the cheap sets on the t.v.
The cast (including Peter O'Toole, Steve Guttenberg, Daryl Hannah, Liam Neeson, Beverly D'Angelo and Jennifer Tilly--a highly uneven troupe if there ever was one!) cannot get a grip on their characters and flounder (they should've threaten to remove their names as well).
Bernie Mac's whole shtick has been to center episodes around the abhorrent parenting philosophies he waxed philosophical about in a TV Guide interview a few years ago (The basic premise: If children do anything at all to get under your skin, threaten to hit them with a belt).
Arbaaz Khan was the best in the whole film especially in the scene where he was threaten everyone to get the diamond with a crossbow and was wearing sunglasses.
What's good: Alan Webb's Gloucester and Jack MacGowran's Fool both threaten to steal the picture.
Brigitte Lin is a masculine, abusive, violent cop, who picks a high paid gigolo because she can control, beat, and threaten him to behave.
Not only do they prove to him that they are MUCH more manly but they threaten him until he promises to return to the present day and correct this silly stereotyped cowboy hero image--allowing the bad guys to win and revealing to America that cowboys like Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were just pretty boys who NEVER would have survived the rigors of Western life!
The bad guys threaten her by saying that they'll get her husband involved and then she's stuck to being their slave until the money is paid back.
After a bunch of high-tech terrorists has taken over three oil rigs and threaten to blow them up if the British government won't pay a few million pounds, it is Moore's turn to save the western world.
We are edukated to not be complacent in the face of the powers that threaten to segregate us even further.
While it can be admired that To (along with co-director Wai Ka Fai) is attempting a new genre, the romantic comedy, the cheap gags definitely threaten to bog down the entire picture.
Lau takes his role a little too seriously and his temper tantrums threaten to turn this seemingly lightweight effort into something far more serious.
Picture Rock Hudson as Coach Tiger McDrew, a playboy teacher sleeping with the female student body, killing the ones who threaten to expose him or cause him problems, hence the title "Pretty Maids All In A Row." The Tiger is at least twenty years older than those he beds.
They wave their guns around, threaten, but don't seem to want to act.
The police threaten to turn him over to the Gestapo if he doesn't cooperate by uncovering the real spy among the hotel guests.
Their financial situation changes when the child is about 2, and before the adoption is final, the adoption head honchos threaten to take her away, because now they are poor.
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