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John Adams (HBO Miniseries)
Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney
HBO, 2008
Magnificent and unforgettable.
There are two main criticisms of the HBO miniseries based on David McCullough's biography of John Adams, and I don't understand either of them. The first is that the miniseries makes Adams less admirable than he was in the book. Frankly, that was my main criticism of ...
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Primal Fear
Richard Gere, Laura Linney
Paramount, 1998
Wonderfully Tense with Great Performances
This is one of the best "lawyer" movies you'll ever see with fabulous performances by Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand and an absolutely Academy Award level performance by Edward Norton.
Sit back and enjoy!
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Love Actually (Widescreen Edition)
Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson
Universal Studios, 2004
Wonderfully entertaining!
Wonderfully casted and brilliant comedy. An incredible ensemble of talent seep through every crevice of this production. Hugh Grant is his normally charming and funny self. This is a wonderful holiday movie and gift for everyone!!!
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Max Pomeranc, Joe Mantegna
Paramount, 2000
a movie you can watch more than once
a movie you and your family can watch more than once. Excellent acting and character development.
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Dave
Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver
Warner Home Video, 1998
Mom's Obsession
My husband and I thought this was a really great movie and have seen it a couple of times, but my Mother (86 years young) actually made this purchase you asked me to review. My Mother received this DVD for Christmas this past year and has watched it repeatedly. ...
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The Truman Show (Special Collector's Edition)
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney
Paramount, 2005
A triumph!
In the near future, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) has lived a great life with a wife (Laura Linney), great job, friends and parents. But what he doesn't know is that his hometown is actually fake and that he is the star of a popular long running reality program that has ...
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Mystic River (Widescreen Edition)
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Warner Home Video, 2004
Great Performances Worth Seeing
Particularly in the beginning of the movie as *spoiler*, we learn a girl has died. The reaction of her father and mother is just incredibly believable and something I will remember about this film. Hand him a reward for that and the rest.
The pedo-killer had me ...
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Breach (Widescreen Edition)
Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe
Universal Studios, 2007
Chris Cooper is great . . .
This intelligent, well-directed/well-written film is about the famous contemporary spy for the Russians, Robert Hanssen - an FBI agent selling secrets for over 20 years until caught.
Besides telling a great story, veteran actor Chris Cooper (you might not even ...
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Love Actually (Full Screen Edition)
Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson
Universal Studios, 2004
Wonderfully entertaining!
Wonderfully casted and brilliant comedy. An incredible ensemble of talent seep through every crevice of this production. Hugh Grant is his normally charming and funny self. This is a wonderful holiday movie and gift for everyone!!!
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The Savages
Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, Laura Linney
Twentieth Century Fox, 2008
Every aspect of this film fits like a glove...
Let's talk for a minute about the perfect actors for the perfect script. As I watched `The Savages' last night I couldn't help but think that these actors couldn't be better suited for this film. Both Laura Linney and Philip Seymour Hoffman have this incredibly ...
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The Nanny Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
Scarlett Johansson, Donna Murphy
Weinstein Company, 2007
Fun DVD
A great video when you want just a little harmless entertainment....with a moral. It's a no-brainer....it's just fun.
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The House of Mirth
Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney
Sony Pictures, 2001
A splendid and justified adaptation
The melancholic tale of rapacious Lily Bart, that was so meticulously and brilliantly written by Edith Wharton, deserves to be depicted onscreen with the same fluidity, subtleties and emotive presence as the novel, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that director ...
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Absolute Power
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman
Warner Home Video, 1997
Why would he stab himself?????
Absolute Power DVD
Absolute Power, based on the book, Absolute Power was made in 1997(remember that date). In the movie Clint Eastwood plays a master thief who steals to support his art. He happens to break into a Washington D.C. mansion to burglarize the walk-in ...
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Tales of the City (Collector's Edition)
Olympia Dukakis, Donald Moffat
Acorn Media, 2003
Not For Everyone/But I Loved It
Every So Often You Watch A Mini Series That Has That Something Extra//
This Is It//All The Cast Is Wonderful But The Performance Of Olympia
Dukakis Playing Anna Madrigal Is So Much Of A Masterpiece If Her Performace Was A Painting It Would Be Hanging In A ...
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The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition)
Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels
Sony Pictures, 2006
Modern Classic!
I don't know how Laura Lindley does it but I can always count on her being in a great independent film. This one is wonderful though I still can't make sense of the ending. A couple divorce and the poor relationship between the couple and the boys disintegrate even ...
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