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The biggest part of the movie is one big flash back were you get to see how Oscar (an unsuccessful writer) meets Mimi (a waitress/ dancer) one day in Paris.
In "Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself," a young man - who basically lives from one unsuccessful suicide attempt to another - is looked after and cared for by his brother who is suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer.
In 2018, after an unsuccessful attack to a Skynet facility, only John Connor (Christian Bale) survives, but he discovers that Skynet is developing the powerful new model T-800.
Making Denmark an American corporation rather than a political state was also unsuccessful, for the continued use of the terms "king," "queen" and "prince" did not fit the new setting.
We witness an unsuccessful attempt of Royal family to leave the country that brought both, the King and the Queen to the trial for treason; execution of her husband on the guillotine, separation from her son who was taken from her on the very day of Louis XVI's death, brought to court to testify against her, and died in captivity when he was 12 years old.
Wanting nothing more than to leave his family some security, he begins his unsuccessful quest to get himself killed on the job, only to find out its harder than he thought it would be.
In one instance a family is given the meat from the butt of a seal by the tribe because the hunter was unsuccessful that day.
The essence of capturing a romantic hero of the movies on film has seldom come off (proof of that is the unsuccessful 1951 version of "Valentino" starring Anthony Dexter); here, Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev struggles with his Italian accent, struggles with his romantic partners, and really only looks comfortable with the dancing (an early scene featuring Valentino and Vaslav Nijinsky together on the dance floor is the picture's best moment).
Of these, the finest was, beyond a doubt, Melvin and Howard.Based on a twentieth century addition to American folklore( the improbable saga of Howard Hughes and Melvin Dummar), Jonathan Demmes' film tells the story of a chronically unsuccessful Everyman, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have unknowingly picked up Howard Hughes one night in the Nevada desert, and who also claimed to have been written into Hughes' will.
It is a tragic love story between Sophie (Meryl Streep) and Nathan (Kevin Klein) who meet an unsuccessful writer named Stingo.
It's the only cute thing in the movie, even though it is all about her unsuccessful attempts at controlling the weather.
Attempts to locate Peter Pig have been unsuccessful, although there are rumors that he lives in semi-retirement in Encino, having wisely bought stock in Disney and, later, in IBM.
Meanwhile, her best friend Dong Mi (Uhm Jeong-hwa), a web company employee out of work thanks to her own sexist superior, shares a flat with old pal Joon (Lee Beom-soo, in a 180 degree turn from his creepy role in OH! Brothers), who's as unsuccessful at removing himself from bad relationships as she is successful at bringing home a long string of bad boyfriends.
Hans Mattheson plays an unsuccessful market trader called Virgil Guppy who has all the necessary accessories - chic PR-girl girlfriend (Beth Winslet), jaguar car, high flying friends but but doesn't have the portfolio to back it up.
An unsuccessful attempt is made to tie all these loose threads together into one coherent story.
Their opposites - stinginess, injustice, anger, laziness, distraction, and ignorance - are unsuccessful actions, which lead to negative evolutionary mutations that take you down the chain through animal incarnations."
Beowulf, after a long, unsuccessful battle with the dragon, was supposed to have died, not having killed the dragon and Wiglaf ended up defeating it.
After the unsuccessful Friday THE 13TH PART VIII:JASON TAKES MANHATTAN, which was dumb to begin with, Paramount gave the rights to JASON to New Line.
Why do I find this movie unsuccessful?
It is because both of them take rhetoric seriously that they are finally unsuccessful.
Mr. Lew plays Buford Lee, an unsuccessful actor who is trying to finally make it big with a top notch film but Buford runs into one obstacle after another keeping him from completing his movie.
This is a super-hit movie of horror genre with Superstar Rajesh Khanna in the lead.The song Sang mere nikle and other songs of the film became a big hit.Danny had once sang a Nepali folk song which when telecast in TV, R D Burman had heard casually and remembered this tune so that he could use it in Danny's own production and based on that tune he made beginning tune of Sang mere.This film is rarely telecast in TV channels.Rajesh Khanna's movies were not doing well between 1976-79 with 12 movies flopping of which 4 were classics and had only 3 super-hits during the period.He bounced back with box office hits Amardeep,Aanchal,Kudrat,Dard,Thodisi Bewafaii and unsuccessful Redrose.Phir Wohi Raat is a super-hit film which came after he regained his box office rating after which he had a good phase till 1991 as a main lead hero.
I suppose it was inevitable, even unsuccessful films get sequels these days, particularly those of the horror genre.
This film is supposed to be a fictionalised account of the ultimately unsuccessful British underwater raid on that mighty German battleship, the Tirpitz.
Hope was born a poor preachers son who worked his way up to being an unsuccessful lawyer before he failed at writing.
Another highlight is a depressed and suicidal woman who makes several unsuccessful attempts at doing herself in.
Fascist solutions were equally unsuccessful, as in Italy, unless accompanied by rapid rearmament, as in Germany.
The lessons from Greece and other unsuccessful bailout programs are sobering.
The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual states to coordinate their policies.
The first efforts in the nuclear era were unsuccessful United Nations-centered treaties.
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