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As movie goers, we are then thrust into Patrick's pursuit to find Holly again.
They find themselves in considerable peril when the place is suddenly thrust into a time vortex where the past, present and future collide in a wildly chaotic and unpredictable manner.
Having first achieved fame with Drunken Master, Jackie Chan was thrust into the spotlight once more with 1983's Project A, a hugely enjoyable pirate flick which re-established him as a major star.
The main thrust of the narrative arises from a 'homily' spoken by a country priest following the wedding vows of a young cosmopolitan couple from Milan.
Sure it doesn't follow the tried and true, but do we as consumers always want the same things thrust at us over and over again.
Steven Rea plays a forensic scientist thrust on the job in Sovie Russia in 1982..in the very first hours of his job a body of a murdered girl is brought in..he has his workers go back to look for evidence and they bring back five more bodies..this starts the story of the hunt for one of the worst serial killers in modern day history..It is a stark depressing dark movie that explores how the bureaucracy of the old Soviet Union indirectly contributed or caused the deaths of many of the killers victims.It also explores in Donald Sutherland's character how the proper usage of bureaucracy in a communist govt can help achieve the ultimate goal of finding a monster A gripping movie not for all but for those who like a good detective story that will hold your interest this is definitely a must see on a scale of one to ten.. 9
Basically a coming of age tale about a young boy who is thrust into a position of having to save the world ..... and more.
Here the art design is thrust into your face, and WHAT art design it is!
The supporting cast adds to this film as Jennifer Crystal Foley (Pat Maris), Chris Bauer (Bob Cerv), Anthony Michael Hall (Whitey Ford), and Bruce McGill (Ralph Houk) brilliantly display the up and down emotions of dealing with two players thrust into the limelight of trying to break one of baseball's all time records.
Writer/director Moussa Sene Absa shows how modern day(1994) Senegal reacts to having French and American culture thrust upon the native Wolof people, specifically in Popenguine.
The violence/gore is too sparse and VERY badly done (there is a scene of a stabbing where you can clearly see that the knife is just thrust to the left of the victim), with the exception of a couple of death sequences.
Even if you don't put much thrust in the police (as they claim in the movie) you still can act on your own, and I am talking here about him as a protector of his daughter and as a protector of his own skin - for God's sake, that kid RAPED HIS DAUGHTER , BROKE HIS HEAD AND SET HIM ON FIRE TO DIE !!!
Clint Eastwood does a masterful job in capturing the immensity of the battle of Iwo Jima with the human drama of the six men who were thrust into immortality by the simple act of raising the American flag on the island.
Two men who were thrust into super-stardom thanks to these movies were Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, perhaps the finest horror actors ever to grace the genre.
She is a city girl, thrust upon Cold Comfort Farm.
The thrust of this one is that Kelly's sister and 3 attractive students can't act better than mahogany and they will murder Macbeth.
The spontaneous actions,style & quips of this zany grand insanity of unusual lifestyles & eclectic characters being thrust into an quite unusual situation,under the intense pressure of a bunch of grandiose yet charismatic lunatics,kept me constantly yearning for more of that unique chemistry,prolific dialog & unforeseen situations that earmarked this film as an all time favorite of mine!
The thrust of the piece was -- if you get bored or can't figure out an ending, have your character get hit by a bus.
So now a movie with an attractive star-cast with great music is being thrust down our throats with history lessons embedded.
Main character's thrust not very well explained other than generic "leaving the farm" type of moment at the beginning, not enough tie-ins to previous reinforcing principles and moments earlier in the story.
As soon as you thought that they were all used up, there would be one more you had forgotten about being thrust at you.
I saw this film at the New York festival last June and was impressed by the intensity of the narrative: with a small cast and a small budget Ms. Sinclair draws the viewer in and never lets you rest as the heroine has her life destroyed and then is thrust in a circumstance where she has to confront the monster who has made her life a living hell.
Mom tries to thrust an automatic pistol into his palm because Mafiaso Don Vito (Arthur Kennedy) had his father, Gaspara Aversi (Luis Induni), murdered.
She captured the upper-middle-class mother thrust into extraordinary circumstances with great skill.
My perspective is the following: Having not read the book, but having read a number of 'user comments' who have, there's no doubt that the script veers considerably from the thrust of the book.
From he modest petition drive she is thrust quickly into the limelight as a leader of the 'peace movement.'
What's so ironic is that the entire thrust of this film is designed to illustrate the importance of Latinos in California.
Not only that, but the thrust is different.
Like French director Bruno Dumont, Reygadas' cinema is predominantly physical and there is little dialogue, narrative thrust, or explanation of the contradictions.
Typically, my fear response only kicks in when I see a potent image thrust at me quickly or when a movie uses unusual, eerie sounds to induce anxiety.
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