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Poor American schlub Pinky Green (Richard Jordan, playing another bad guy but this time an adorable one) gets out of a British jail and tries to go straight, but his maintenance man job in a bank is too attractive for his never-reformed criminal friends, headed up by a really nasty Ivan (David Niven in one of his last roles).
The rest of the film is a puzzle as Stewart tries to save them and solve the mystery.
Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazzello play the two children or Lorraine Bracco, a single mother who just tries to make a home for them.
However, the son of Tramp tries to savor the world out side the home and family he knows and learns where he actually belongs.
However Andreas can't really seem to fit in and starts to long back to his old world, and tries with all means to get back.
A criminal tries to break into the house Evil Ed was editing the movies that ultimately drive him insane in and says "groovy" as he looks at his weapon quite like Bruce Campbell does when he finishes his chainsaw hand in Evil Dead 2. There is also many posters of that movie scattered around the house and office in the movie.
Because it is not a given that a 1941 movie tries to portray both the US-American cavalryman and Native American leader Chief Crazy Horse (Anthony Quinn) in a favorable light.
His scenes with a camper where he tries to raise the kid's self-esteem are very good.
Liv Tyler plays a manipulative woman who tries to get her own way by flaunting her body to every man she meets ,all of which fall under her spell.There are a few funny moments in this but they get fewer and fewer as the film deteriorates into a comedy farce.
Unfortunately when Rostin tries to retrieve the little fella he finds that the baby has been adopted by a pride of Lion's as one of their own!
As Officer Dave, he tries so hard to do well, but usually ends up falling in the muck, literally!
Alan then goes after Jackie who he hits with a car and then tries to run Michele down.
On the way, they encounter a vicious vehicle that looks like an army tank combined with a monster truck, that tries to run their car over.
Ponyo, as the boy names her, is taken back to the sea by her father, who tries to discourage her from returning to land and becoming human, but she gets into his magic elixirs and does what she wants to do.
He tries to get executives to believe him--only they know it.
Take for example, Vanity magazine magnate John Coudair (Otto Kruger): enchanted by Rusty's resemblance to her grandmother Maribelle (also played by Hayworth in flashbacks), whom he wooed devotedly when he fell in love with her, he tries to relive his youth by fixing what he thinks went wrong between himself and Maribelle.
Beauchamp, on the other hand, declares his innocence and tries to get Stevens to help him.
I was expecting this to be just like the others, tries to be scary- ends up looking silly.
Throughout his stay there, he tries to maintain a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend played by Audrey Tautou while he begins a tentative flirtation with the wife of the owner of the Spanish house where he is staying at and gets some advice from a lesbian house-mate (Cecile de France) as to how to seduce a woman.
Well, it took them 4 tries, but they finally got it right!
Nonetheless, the suspense hangs heavy over poor war widow Ida Lupino as she tries to deal with her semi-psychotic handyman Robert Ryan before one of his mood-swings kills her.
The mother, Sandy, (Sigourney Weaver) tries to hold the family together and even she is completely ignored by her husband also.
Meanwhile, we watch as Tripper tries his hand at love when he flirts aimlessly with fellow female counselor Roxanne(Kate Lynch)as other teen counselors pair up and also fall head-over-heels.
The movie tries and mostly succeeds in showing how brothers can show devotion and the importance of family ties in one's youth.
Danton is confident of the support of the ordinary people and tries to persuade Robespierre to curb the bloodletting.
Pixote tries to trust and to love and to bond, but there simply is no room in his world for the gentle side of human nature.
We view scenes of America as Kane tries to find the real culprit in the bombing he stands accused of.
Bud from JUST ONE OF THE GUYS (80's gold again) plays one of the killer-kids and he's paired up with one of the little girls Jake Blues tries to purchase in the BLUES BROTHERS.
When Erik learns out that Dexter has AIDS, he tries leaves-and-water tea to make it better.
Meanwhile, the bitter Meiko tries to find Bruno so she can exact her revenge on him.
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