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Has the flavor of Waking Ned Devie. A romantic comedy. Takes place in a small isolated village with more men than women. Where on could be very lonely. In the local pub, the guys decide to place an ad in the Miami Herald, asking for attractive young women to come to their town for a dance and possible marriage. When the town's women learn of the scheme, their reactions vary from bemusement to offense, and they set in motion a counter-scheme involving fishermen from a Spanish trawler.
Judy Dench and Olympia Dukakis are magnificent. The Blonde Bombshells was an all "girl" band performing in war-time London during the blitz. An attempt to recapture the past before its too late.
Set in 1900 London and Venice, visually beautiful. A reviewer's comment states it bluntly, My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money. Helena Bonham Carter ( , , , ) has the lover. A chic flick. OK. Her nude scene makes it for the guys. OK I confess. I would recommend it even without the nude scene.
Minnie Driver ( , , , ) as a plain Irish Catholic girl in love with someone she thinks is out of reach.
The Cuban boat lift leaves a young Marisa Tomei and Alfred Molina living in the Orange Bowl trying to start a new life in America. The Perez husband has spent 20 years in a Cuban jail - he was a plantation owner who destroyed his plantation. The young Tomei puts together a "family" - husband, child, grandfather to get to top of the sponsor list. The Perez husband has not heard from this wife, played by Anjelica Houston, in several years.
Robert Downey Jr, Meg Ryan, Sam Neill, and Hugh Grant in a period piece. A doctor in plague-era London gains the kings pleasure and then the kings displeasure as he loses himself in dissolution. The plague gives him a chance to redeem himself. Well acted period piece.
Bill Murray romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right.
Nina, a thirty something translator, fantastically played by Juliet Stevenson, loses the love of her life, Jamie, who was a cellist. As her life and her flat falls apart, it seems she's on the edge of an emotional breakdown but while she plays a half-finished Bach duet on the piano, she turns around and Jamie's there, playing the cello. It's bliss at first but then he starts rearranging the furniture, inviting his ghostly friends to her flat to watch old movies on video and Nina's passion turns into irritation. Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman are brilliant. Its a touching story about a woman who learning to cope with grief and anger and carrying on with her life.
One of my all time favorite movies. Susan Sarandon plays a loopy lady who just loves America's national pastime--and the men who play it. At the opening of every season, she attaches herself to a promising rookie and guides him through the season. Unfortunately, the player she bestows her favors upon does not really deserve it. She knows it, and veteran Kevin Costner knows it. Her choice, a dim bulb played for laughs by Tim Robbins, is the only one who doesn't know it.
Interesting version of Shakespeare's Tempest. John Cassavetes as an architect suffering middle-aged-crazies. Strong cast including Gena Rowlands as his wife, Susan Sarandon ( , ) as his girl-friend, Molly Ringwald ( ) as his daughter, and Raul Julia ( ) as a wacked-out lech of a goatherd.
Unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, (they attend a lot of funerals) and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to "reach out" and grab life by the lapels as opposed to dwelling morbidly on mortality. Quirky, dark, funny, heartlifting.