Sweet Liberty | Diane Agostini, Antony Alda | Ohhhh, it's all true! It's all true!

Sweet Liberty | Diane Agostini, Antony Alda | How Hollywood Distorts History!

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Sweet Liberty

	Sweet Liberty Diane Agostini, Antony Alda Universal Studios, 2004 average customer review:based on 19 reviews view larger image
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Alan Alda's follow-up to the hit comedy The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty is an intermittently successful and lighthearted comedy that imagined what would happen if the past and present collided via Hollywood. It also provided a blueprint for David Mamet's State & Main, which took a similar premise and satirically ran amok with it. A local history professor who writes a surprise bestseller about the Revolutionary War, Alda is a man contending with a fairly mundane life until a Hollywood film crew shows up in his hometown to turn his book into a movie--one that?s filled with loads of sex and violence, unlike the scholarly tome it's based on. And the drama that's being filmed soon spills over to real-life, as Alda falls in love with the actress playing his book's heroine, and his fiancée (Lise Hilboldt) becomes enamored of the movie's leading man. Alda and Hilboldt may be the film's central couple, but it's the movie stars they're fascinated with who will catch your eye: Michael Caine, right before he embarked on his career renaissance, and a young Michelle Pfeiffer, who for the first time got to show off her beguiling comic side. As the lothario leading man with eyes for any woman who crosses his path, Caine is the kind of charming cad you can never really hate for too long. And Pfeiffer, who gets the benefit of playing both the innocent maiden of the movie-within-the-movie and her neurotic, real-life counterpart, neatly tucks the movie into her bodice and saunters off with it. --Mark Englehart

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Ohhhh, it's all true! It's all true!

If watching The Patriot made you want to pull the hair out of your powdered wig, you will roar with laughter and appreciation for Sweet Liberty.

Thanks to Alan Alda, now immensely popular with reinactors, you will see up close and personal just how Hollywood and its evil spawn view history. Believe me, its strictly a don't-let-history-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-story world, filled with contempt for the truth, and contempt for the audience.

At least we can have KARMA pay them back at the conclusion of Sweet Liberty, but we need more voices as eloquent and influential as Alan Alda to bring that payback into the real world.

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How Hollywood Distorts History!

While perhaps somewhat exaggerated, this amusing film is not far off the mark. Hollywood takes considerable license with how it portrays history in all its films. Today, with all their hi-tech wizardry, films seduce audiences into thinking that the events being shown are accurate. Mel Gibson films in particular are guilty of this fault. A comparison of this film and "The Patriot" would make for a good example.

Viewers must always take any Hollywood film today with a grain of salt. If a good movie inspires someone to go and learn more about a subject then at least some good comes from the expereince. Most viewers do not bother however. The result is movie adiences come away from a film thinking "wow, thats how it really was"!

This film eagerly shows the egos involved in most film production. The ego of the director is often matched by the leading actors. After these supreme egos get down with a film, there is often little left of real history! I love to see historical drama, but I always check out a book after the movie. You should too! And this cute little movie should reinforce that habbit. I liked most things about this film except Alan Alda. I have never been a fan of his. He wines and complains too much! Otherwise, the cast are good in this cute film.

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history is fun

I always enjoy Alan Alda and he didn't disapoint and I enjoyed the young MIchelle Pfeiffer. Fun take on how history is interpreted in the movies.

Easy going comedy

Light hearted comedy - I miss the Alda movies of the 80's - glad to find this and The Four Seasons available on DVD - he should have made many more films. Fun performances from many 80's stars - too many to single any out.

Enjoy

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