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9 to 5 (Full Screen)
»rank: 3509
Chroniques et points de vue:From :With a nod to Preston Sturges's classic dark comedy Unfaithfully Yours (about a man who fantasizes about murdering his possibly philandering wife), this 1980 cotton-candy-feminist-vendetta film concerns a monstrous boss (Dabney Coleman) whose more capable underlings dream of ways of punishing him. That much of the film is particularly fun, but the rest of it descends into silliness when the women stumble onto a real-life opportunity to teach him a lesson. Fonda, the biggest star in the film at the time, takes a back seat to Parton's ...
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Tea With Mussolini (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 5666
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln filming this semi-autobiographical account of life in ltaly during the dawn of World War ll, director Franco Zeffirelli imbues Tea with Mussolini with the mixed blessings of fond reminiscence. lt's a warmly inviting film, as impeccable as any Merchant-lvory production, but like a hazy memory it's uncertain in its narrative intentions. And yet with an exceptional cast to compensate, the film's as engaging as it is inconsequential. Zeffirelli's alter ego is Luca (Charlie Lucas in youth; Baird Wallace as a teenager), who is raised in Florence ...
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Lily Tomlin: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
»rank: 5666
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln filming this semi-autobiographical account of life in ltaly during the dawn of World War ll, director Franco Zeffirelli imbues Tea with Mussolini with the mixed blessings of fond reminiscence. lt's a warmly inviting film, as impeccable as any Merchant-lvory production, but like a hazy memory it's uncertain in its narrative intentions. And yet with an exceptional cast to compensate, the film's as engaging as it is inconsequential. Zeffirelli's alter ego is Luca (Charlie Lucas in youth; Baird Wallace as a teenager), who is raised in Florence ...
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
»rank: 9796
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln filming this semi-autobiographical account of life in ltaly during the dawn of World War ll, director Franco Zeffirelli imbues Tea with Mussolini with the mixed blessings of fond reminiscence. lt's a warmly inviting film, as impeccable as any Merchant-lvory production, but like a hazy memory it's uncertain in its narrative intentions. And yet with an exceptional cast to compensate, the film's as engaging as it is inconsequential. Zeffirelli's alter ego is Luca (Charlie Lucas in youth; Baird Wallace as a teenager), who is raised in Florence ...
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All of Me
»rank: 15568
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Steve Martin takes his wild and crazy persona and splits it into a hilarious battle of the sexes within the same body. Ambitious attorney Roger Cobb is assigned to alter the will of ailing millionaire Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin), who wishes to bequeath her estate to a healthy young woman (Victoria Tennant)--after Cutwater's guru transfers the old eccentric's soul to her healthy body. No one believes for a second it will actually work, until Ms. Cutwater awakens in Roger's body and he becomes, literally, a man possessed, ...
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Disney's The Kid (Widescreen)
»rank: 17497
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is an ultracynical, 40-year-old L.A. image consultant who fashions bogus façades for scumbag clients. 0blivious to his own need for a makeover, he's a tyrant in the office (to the chagrin of his sarcastic assistant, played to perfection by Lily Tomlin), and he's emotionally unavailable to the morally centered woman (Emily Mortimer) who senses goodness beneath Russ's hardened veneer. Not a moment too soon, a pudgy kid (Spencer Breslin) mysteriously appears in Russ's life, revealing himself to be Rusty Duritz--that is, Russ's 8-year-old ...
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Flirting With Disaster
»rank: 17497
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David 0. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is ...
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I Heart Huckabees (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2004)
»rank: 21664
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David 0. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is ...
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Kate Clinton: The 25th Anniversary Tour
»rank: 22313
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David 0. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is ...
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Krippendorf's Tribe (Widescreen)
»rank: 23210
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sometimes a filmmaker's second movie gets labeled as a sophomore slump. David 0. Russell (Spanking the Monkey) shreds that fate with Flirting with Disaster, an outrageous, free-spirited comedy about private people forced into public situations. Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller) finds the opportunity he's been waiting a lifetime for: an adoption agency rep (Téa Leoni) has located his birth parents and the agency will fly him to California if they can record the reunion. With wife Nancy (Patricia Arquette) and new son in tow, the neurotic Mel is ...
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