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I hadn't seen Robert Duvall in anything worthwhile for some time and needed to see him ply his trade.
He makes a joke of this, saying these are necessary for the trade.
The sex trade can stupefy and titillate with a thin line separating pleasure from pain.
Most people didn't want to deal with the slave trade practiced in modern day Africa.
Currently the slave trade is still quite active and unfortunately those still profiting from it skirt the law quite well.
Hence the ability to trade on the Knight Rider brand.
There's that and inexplicable usages of "Amazing Grace" (that one British Parliament member outlawed the slave trade for THIS?!).
The half loco Brandon has the part necessary to repair the Navy's damaged helo -- a "push-pull rod" -- but he's hoarding his equipment because he wants to trade what they want for what he wants, namely the shapely Shawn Smith.
This, of course, would upset the balance of trade and the diamond industry would be destroyed.
When the two become romantically involved, a complicated situation forms since Lillian is being wooed by Meno Argenti (Omar Sharif), a powerful plutocrat who controls the emerald trade for the rotten Mexican government, thus leading to shared distaste between the two men.
The fact that, after more than 250 years of almost total isolation from the rest of the world, Japan had been forcibly opened to foreign trade in 1853 is simply ignored.
Additionally, young Carson's family members, equally moronic fellow students, and school staff are seldom well-drawn, the only characters of abiding interest being Sharon (Tracey Mann), a new teacher at the high school and, in particular, "Redback" (Steve Bisley), owner of a junkyard for motorcycles, who gives Steve an opportunity to learn a trade (welding) and also to restore a wrecked motorcycle, thereby opening a way for the boy to flee from an uncivil environment.
This film is about geishas on Kyoto, Japan, in how they live and ply their trade.
Peter Ho is a singer by trade and this is his first time acting.
When you get experienced enough as a filmmaker and you learned most of the tricks of the trade, you realise that the best thing to do for an art-house director is to stick mindlessly to whatever made you successful with the festival-going crowd and the film critics earlier.
Eventually, Taeko, the mother is persuaded to trade places; she now watches from within as Gozo rapes his daughter.
"Criminal" offers no such special angle or special depth and tries to trade on nothing but the - by now hopelessly threadbare - fascination of lives led according to the principle of the double-double-cross and the "nothing is what it seems".
Oh well, I guess I can trade this at the used DVD store for films that show Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright and Dame Judith Anderson in better roles.
It's refreshing to see consummate actors plying their trade, especially one with the skill of Paul Newman.
Romain Duris is a temperamental young wheeler-dealer in Parisian real estate, fluent, if not happy with the murky aspects of his trade.
The worst part was the concept...spoiler alert! that the Egyptians had a trans-Atlantic trade route...to Southern California.
Who would trade mobility for a wheelchair?
Not for him the effete air-conditioned acting studio but he learned his acting trade the hard practical way by living the life of a real cowboy.
Going to see this movie, I expected to disagree with its message, but I wanted to know how easily one can fool top trade negotiators, and hoped to laugh at some funny pranks.
Dribbled with strained references to the original series and delivered with the verve of a George W. Bush speech on international trade agreements.
There are none of the modern conveniences of the rest of the world, and everything is either built by the villagers or acquired by traders who visit the island by boat and trade for their handmade goods.
The character's professionalism in his trade is of the highest order...the highest order in a lowly profession...though in this instance his job does have positive results in terms of assassinating a monster who took refuge in Argentina from Germany.
His investigation into a woman's death reveals a serial killer at work, one who's been plying his trade for about 15 years.
What I think he did better than most schlock was that he used actual tricks of the scary movie trade, rather than just thinking of the most vomit worthy ideas imaginable (which are still present here).
However, she eventually finds salvation in the sex trade as an unlikely sex worker however a rather talented one at that.
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