The trials and tribulations of a washed out FBI agent trying to save a young autistic boy's life, who has accidentally decrypted a top NSA encryption code.
Cast and crew deliver a competent thriller in which which Bruce Willis can save the day in his own way and still be likable if not a bit over the top. The plot (from Ryne Douglas Pearson's thriller "Simple Simon" has been simplified into something quite simple indeed (to the verge of unbelievability), but the real surprise is the 12-year old actor Miko Hughes who - even more than in the book - succeeds in bringing alive the trials of an autistic boy; he even spent time within a real school for autistic children, that also became part of the movie. The chemistry between the ... Read More:
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How the West Was Won seems to become more of an endurance task every year. While it throws in everything - injun attacks, shooting the rapids, stampedes, train wrecks, the Civil War, wagon trains - except a good old fashioned gunfight, the characterization and linking narrative wrapped around Richard Talmadge's impressive action scenes are a long way from the best of the West. Whether it's Karl Malden, Carol Baker, Robert Preston or Gregory Peck hamming it up or Debbie Reynolds raising yet another ruckus in another painfully gratuitous musical number, the squirm factor is high. Although John Ford's Civil War section (aided by plentiful stock footage from Raintree County) is the best remembered, the film doesn't really pick up until Reynolds ... Read More:
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It was a pleasure to see and hear Shirley Jones singing again. I bought the movie (on DVD) just to hear "Till There Was You".
I remembered Paul of "The Beatles" singing it in about 1962 at a show in Bournemouth earlier on in their career (the late great Billy Fury was also appearing at the same holiday resort).
I imagine it was the kind of song that Paul would have liked to have composed.
Shirley Jones was a very capable singer in the two 50's movies associated with her "Oklahoma" and "Carousel" and at that age, reminds me of the glorious Deanna Durbin who in turn succeeded Jeanette MacDonald. All of them were excellent actresses too. Deanna of course being a younger teenage star at first. All wonderful ... Read More:
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How does Julia Roberts do it? How does she go from being exquisitely lovely in tear-jerking drama Steel Magnolias to being exquisitely lovely in touching romance My Best Friend's Wedding? In Steel Magnolias, Roberts delivers an out of this world performance which brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. The direction and acting in this movie is truly unsurpassable; if you have not yet watched this, you haven't lived! In My Best Friend's wedding, Roberts completely swaps characters to become a neurotic career woman who realises too late that she is in love with her best friend, who has decided to marry someone else. This movie encompassess humour, romance and the keep-watching element which so many modern films lack. Fulfil your life with ... Read More:
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How does Julia Roberts do it? How does she go from being exquisitely lovely in tear-jerking drama Steel Magnolias to being exquisitely lovely in touching romance My Best Friend's Wedding? In Steel Magnolias, Roberts delivers an out of this world performance which brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. The direction and acting in this movie is truly unsurpassable; if you have not yet watched this, you haven't lived! In My Best Friend's wedding, Roberts completely swaps characters to become a neurotic career woman who realises too late that she is in love with her best friend, who has decided to marry someone else. This movie encompassess humour, romance and the keep-watching element which so many modern films lack. Fulfil your life with ... Read More:
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How does Julia Roberts do it? How does she go from being exquisitely lovely in tear-jerking drama Steel Magnolias to being exquisitely lovely in touching romance My Best Friend's Wedding? In Steel Magnolias, Roberts delivers an out of this world performance which brings tears to my eyes every time I watch it. The direction and acting in this movie is truly unsurpassable; if you have not yet watched this, you haven't lived! In My Best Friend's wedding, Roberts completely swaps characters to become a neurotic career woman who realises too late that she is in love with her best friend, who has decided to marry someone else. This movie encompassess humour, romance and the keep-watching element which so many modern films lack. Fulfil your life with ... Read More:
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This is one of my old time favorite movies. It is funny, entertaining, makes you sometimes cry, you will laugh a lot and a great lesson to be yourself, individual and not just keep in line what one is suppose to think and how one has to behave.
And if you are down: just listen to the song "We need a little Christmas now".....your spirits will be lifted and you will get on with life instaed of sinking into self-pity.
You will love this movie!! Please can I rate it with 10 stars!!
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This is one of my old time favorite movies. It is funny, entertaining, makes you sometimes cry, you will laugh a lot and a great lesson to be yourself, individual and not just keep in line what one is suppose to think and how one has to behave.
And if you are down: just listen to the song "We need a little Christmas now".....your spirits will be lifted and you will get on with life instaed of sinking into self-pity.
You will love this movie!! Please can I rate it with 10 stars!!
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Susan Hayward doesn't back down when it comes to protecting what is hers. Her character is embroiled in the early wars between wildcat oil drillers and cattle ranchers in Oklahoma. A pretty fast paced movie that stays busy. The oil field fire is a tremendous sight. Chill Wills, Robert Preston and Ed Begley round out the super cast.
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I first saw Reap the Wild Wind on Channel 2 in Astoria, Queens, New York on a Sunday -- on the TV movie which ran at 1:00pm, while all us churchgoers were home now, and Mother was putting the roast on. Reap was and is an American story.
We first meet Loxi(Paulette Goddard), a provacative, headstrong young woman who is involved in her work -- she's not sittin' home, fannin' herself, havin' juleps. Our first sight of her shows her out on the waves, rescuing downed shipmen. She becomes torn between two strong men -- the understated, determined sea captain (John Wayne) and his antagonist (Ray Milland), a lawyer for the ship's firm who's out to prove that our wonderful captain deliberately scuttled "The Southern Cross" -- for profit! Read More:
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