20 years later, millions are self quarantined like William Forrester. I screened this film then and many times over the decades. The writer makes this movie work. Comparing director efforts is only helpful for people who want to cross reference films like bible verses. Sean Connery shines in the dying darkness of a lonely Bronx apartment. His fictional character would be 90 today. 2 real teachers names are used in the characters of literature reading quoting students and writers. Rob Brown plays the ghetto genius on basketball "scholarship." This is a simple screenplay on mourning lost loved ones and finding a human friendship family. Casting is responsible for linking this original film writing to several classics in classroom heroics. James Bond helped by Matt Damon and losing ourselves inspired by novels and basball dreams. Rent it buy it and show it to young readers with great memories.
Reviews
10 Reviews
A Bridge Too Far
(1977)
Vietnam had fewer bridges
20 October 2019
9 for effort better than Saving PVT Ryan. Both start by a defining scene for theme. Dutch were not liberated and survivors of war cannot possibly make all that death "worth it."....I have heard some movie/s have used smell to replicate real film events. No single reviewer nor does this or any war film report the smell of explosives, splattering blood up my nose or rotting corpses. Accordingly this and most films are about greed selling entertainment. Pretending to have documentary value, this film is a repulsive failure to fact checking. As for the personalities of war, only Patton comes close to the RELENTLESS ego of killers against killers claiming an alleged gawd only favors his invasions and weaponry. Montgomery is the missing monster in A BRIDGE TOO FAR. WATCH : We Were Soldiers, for a casual look at Buddhists versus Catholics killing each other. Nazis, Italians and Japs against the civilized world is as uncivilized as it gets with 80 million dead humans 1914-1945.... slowing down the caissons is not peace today or ever in song.
Pay It Forward
(2000)
Child of alcoholic teaches all social justice saves lives
6 January 2019
Spacey is Osment school teacher who was Kevin himself a child abuse victim. Hunt is the boozy daughter of drunk Angie Dickenson. Suicidal addicts and asthmatic victims all are linked in this Las Vegas story how love cures and obliges all to PAY IT FORWARD
What Women Want
(2000)
Hunt STARS despite misogynist GIBSON (age of adelaide science fiction) plot
6 January 2019
As Good as It Gets
(1997)
Nice neighbor shoves dog down garbage shute
6 January 2019
Cuba Gooding Junior makes this very long Manhattan Brooklyn Baltimore emotional ride work as an art dealer who protects a gay artist from the mean mouth romance author Jack Nicholson nasty antics obsessed with loving Helen Hunt his waitress. ....the cameo Ghostbuster doctor "cures" Jesse James allergies relieving Helen Hunt of all motherly worries to cure the depressed gay artist sore arm in a cast....look for all those joyful moments amidst many dozens of scenes with 3 musical versions of ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE of LIFE
Tom & Viv
(1994)
Fake xian conversion scene by Dafoe like last temptation
6 January 2019
This totally true docudrama would rate a 10 without the prostrate T.S. Eliot Atheist betraying his mentor, Lord Bertrand Russell laying flat on the floor of an empty cathedral taking his secret vows to become Poet Laureate of the Church of England. ....THE CO-author of WASTELAND deserves more screen time replacing the xian solitary ritual...she deserves an OSCAR as Vivienne
Lady Gaga feat. Bradley Cooper: Shallow
(2018 Music Video)
Stephanie boards a private jet after 3 hours sleep having been discovered by Bradley Cooper in a drag queen show as the only straight woman vocalist.
21 December 2018
She rides home with Coop in his SUV limo and shows him her SHALLOW lyrics. ....Coop jets to his next concert and leaves the limo driver outside her home with Andrew Dice Clay playing her Sinatra wannabe dad....she agrees to the jet with her best friend from work chaperoning. ....she hits the concert stage in street clothes and performs SHALLOW duet arranged by Coop THERE A STAR IS BORN
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