You said no star was out of reach.
Hope Floats
1998 2/5 -nothing special
Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick Jr., Gena Rowlands
Birdee Calvert-Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas, after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show. Back in town, she's dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can't help rubbing it in her face that she isn't as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back on her feet with her daughter, Bernice. Deeply depressed, she runs into an old friend, Justin Matisse, who tries to help her through, but is still in love with her. Birdee must make a new life for her and her daughter, but will Justin be able to be part of it?
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I thought it was pretty boring.
City of Angels
1998 4/5 -just wonderful
Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.
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I loved this movie! An angel falls in love with a human and has to decide if she's worth falling for..so beautiful!
Friends With Kids
2011 4/5 -just wonderful
Adam Scott, Jennifer Westfeldt, Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm, Megan Fox
Julie and Jason have been best friends for years with no romantic interest in each other. He sleeps with someone new every few days, and she's looking for Mr. Right. Now in their thirties, they notice that their friends seem to lose all their good qualities when they have children - child rearing and the spark of Eros don't seem to co-exist. So, they decide to have a child together, share in child rearing, but pursue their own romantic lives. Things go well until he meets Mary Jane and she meets Kurt. Both seem like perfect mates. What could go wrong?
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I really liked it. It could have been shorter, but not so much that it was bad or boring. I felt their relationship and I liked that. Spoilers. Though Adam Scott's declaration of, "I want to fuck the shit out of you", wasn't exactly romantic or charming.
Cleaner
1/5 -bad
Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes
A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
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I thought the concept was really cool, but the movie was slow and boring. It was only a 90 minute movie, but it felt longer.
Cinderella
1950 3/5 -like
In a far away, long ago kingdom, Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella's father remarries a cold, cruel woman who has two daughters, Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies, Cinderella's wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile, across town in the castle, the King determines that his son the Prince should find a suitable bride and provide him with a required number of grandchildren. So the King invites every eligible maiden in the kingdom to a fancy dress ball, where his son will be able to choose his bride. Cinderella has no suitable party dress for a ball, but her friends the mice, led by Jaques and Gus, and the birds lend a hand in making her one, a dress the evil stepsisters immediately tear apart on the evening of the ball. At this point, enter the Fairy Godmother, the pumpkin carriage...
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I have a hard time believing that Cinderella had such a close relationship with mice.
Big Fish
2003 3/5 -like
Ewan McGrgor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
The story revolves around a dying father and his son, who is trying to learn more about his dad by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. The son winds up re-creating his father's elusive life in a series of legends and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.
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I saw this shortly after it came out and I didn't like it. I caught a glimpse of it again recently and it grabbed my attention so I netflix-ed it. I really enjoyed it this time around. I'm sure it's an age thing. Maybe kids don't like it, but it becomes magical as an adult.
In Love and War
1996 1/5 -bad
Sandra Bullock, Chris O'Donnell
Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse, Agnes von Kurowsky.
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I guess now we know why there aren't any hot and steamy sex scenes in period movies: too much clothing! I thought this was a slow and boring movie.
101 Dalmatians
1961 3/5 -like
Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the pups, and wants to get hold of them, as well as more pups, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat... Cruella hires some thugs to kidnap the pups and hold them at her mansion. Will Pongo and Perdita find them in time?
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Cute puppies! I really liked Roger and Anita;I feel that they're underrated, overshadowed by the dogs.
Restless
2011 1/5 -bad
Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase
Annabel is a terminally ill cancer patient and is quietly awaiting her death spending her time studying nature. Enoch is struggling to recover from the death of his parents and spends his time attending funerals with his only friend - a ghost named Hiroshi who was a WWII Japanese kamikaze pilot. Just as Annabel's sister is trying to cope with Annabel's impending death, Annabel and Enoch fall in love. They both finally have a reason to live, but is it too late to have a life together?
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Kind of boring and it seemed long. I was just waiting for her to die. Spoilers. There was a scene toward the end with a little montage thing of all the place they went with this voice over and it seemed lik the end, but it just kept going. There was a lot of things I thought were left unresolved. Or maybe just resolved a little too quickly and cleanly. I hate in movies that feature a funeral and no one is crying! This girl's sister just died, the guy's boyfriend, and not even a tear is shed. It seems totally unbelivable to me.
How To Deal
2003 1/5 -bad
Mandy Moore, Allison Janney, Alexandra Holden, Trent Ford
Halley is a young high school student who is disillusioned with love after seeing the many dysfunctional relationships around her. Her parents are now divorced and her father has a new young girlfriend she doesn't care for too much. Her mother is now always alone; and her sister is so overwhelmed by her upcoming wedding that she barely leaves the house anymore. On top of that, the shallowness of all the girls and guys at her school convinces Halley that finding true love is impossible. A tragic accident, however, leads her to meeting Macon, and suddenly Halley finds that true love can occur under unusual circumstances.
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This was some weird combo of two Sarah Dessen books. And I guess that's why she stopped putting her movies up for fil remakes. It was pretty bad.
Bye Bye Birdie
1963 2/5 -nothing special
Ann-Margret, Jesse Pearson, Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke
1995 2/5 -nothing special
Chynna Phillips, Marc Kudisch, Vanessa Williams, Jason Alexander
Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60's ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad on the Ed Sullivan show to kiss a high school girl goodbye. Albert's mother will do anything to break him up with Rosie. Kim and Hugo, the high school steadies, live in Sweet Apple, Ohio where most of the action takes place.
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I used to watch the original when I was little, go the library and borrow the video. I saw the remake on tv a little while ago. I don't think it's all that great simply becasue it's way too long. But after seeing it again I had to return to the library for the soundtrack.
Dark Victory
1939 3/5 -like
Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying.
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This normaly isn't the kind of movie I'd watch. Old, black and white. I liked it though. Mayber I'll branch out more.
Temple Grandin
2010 3/5 -like
Claire Danes, David Strathairn, Catherine O'Hara
Biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become a Ph.D. and expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very supportive as were some of her teachers. She is noted for creating her 'hug box', widely recognized today as a way of relieving stress in autistic children, and her humane design for the treatment of cattle in processing plants, which have been the subject of several books and won an award from PETA. Today, she is a professor at Colorado State University and well-known speaker on autism and animal handling.
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This was such a lovely and inspiring story. Everyone should see it.
The Emperor's New Groove
2000 2/5 -nothing special
In this animated comedy from the folks at Disney, the vain and cocky Emperor Kuzco is a very busy man. Besides maintaining his "groove", and firing his suspicious administrator, Yzma; he's also planning to build a new waterpark just for himself for his birthday. However, this means destroying one of the villages in his kingdom. Meanwhile, Yzma is hatching a plan to get revenge and usurp the throne. But, in a botched assassination courtesy of Yzma's right-hand man, Kronk, Kuzco is magically transformed into a llama. Now, Kuzco finds himself the property of Pacha, a lowly llama herder whose home is ground zero for the water park. Upon discovering the llama's true self, Pacha offers to help resolve the Emperor's problem and regain his throne, only if he promises to move his water park.
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I don't know about this one. I liked Kronk, I can't imagine anyone who doesn't. I didn't think it was great.
Salem Falls
2011 1/5 -bad
James Van Der Beek, Sarah Carter, AJ Michalka
A man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.
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Pretty boring, nothing happened in this movie. I can't imagine reading the book.
The Amityville Horror
2005 1/5 -bad
Ryan Gosling, Melissa George, Jesse James, Jimmy Bennett, Chloë Grace Moretz
George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into a house that was the site of a horrific murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and try to keep the horror in the past. This is until, George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea starts to see people. What now follows is 28 days of sheer terror for the family.
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I don't like scary movies, but I thought I'd be okay with this one. It was on tv, and I wasn't scared. The power all of a sudden went out with three minutes to go in the movie so we missed that. I assume they all made it out.
Junebug
2005 1/5 -bad
Embeth Davidtz, Alessandro Nivola, Ben McKenzie, Amy Adams, Celia Weston
Successful Carolinian George Johnsten meets Chicago art gallery owner Madeleine at an electoral benefit art auction- love at first sight. Madeleine decides to meet a Southern original artist, so George seizes the opportunity to come along and present her to his North Carolina parents Eugene and Peg, drop-out brother Johhny and his high-pregnant wife Ashley. Confronting the outsider soon opens a can of worms as emotions revive or emerge, like admiration and jealousy.
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Why can't I stop watching indie movies? I very rarely -if ever- like them. I liked the opening credits, that little make out scene gave me hopes..nothing happened though. And I don't know what was up with those random, boring, long scenic shots..weird. Also weird, seeing Matilda's teacher's boobs. I did like Amy Adams, so silver lining or whatever.