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Private Parts (Widescreen)
»rank: 1706
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Give credit to director Betty Thomas for making the notorious Howard Stern, self-proclaimed 'king of all media,' into a nerdish but appealing media rebel who loves his wife and family. Even if you hate Stern's rude radio show, you may discover that the underdog charm of this warm, whimsical film (based on Stern's autobiography) turns you into a fan--for the length of the film at least. Stern delivers a winning performance as the clumsy college kid and aspiring disc-jockey-turned-demon-shock-jock, who becomes an unlikely hero as he battles station managers, ...
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Miracle on 34th Street (Widescreen)
»rank: 10193
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Anyone skeptical of updated retreads of Christmas movie classics may be genuinely surprised by this 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street. Based on the 1947 holiday classic, this new Miracle sticks close to the original's story, though it offers more contemporary, crisper pacing and a tone curiously more reflective--even sorrowful--than before. Richard Attenborough is charming and twinkly as Kris Kringle, the part that won Edmund Gwenn an 0scar. Mara Wilson is the little New York City girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus until Kris persuades her otherwise. ...
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The West Wing: The Complete First Season
»rank: 7499
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Conventional wisdom prior to season one of The West Wing was that the only successful television shows were half hour sitcoms and hour long police, legal, or medical dramas. Building on surplus ideas from his film The American President and the walk-and-talk style of comedy and drama from his critically acclaimed television show Sports Night, Aaron Sorkin bucked the trend and created his masterpiece, one of the most memorable American political depictions to reach the big or small screen. Season one introduces viewers to a Nobel Prize-winning economist and ...
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Mystery, Alaska (Widescreen)
»rank: 2222
Chroniques et points de vue:From :When it comes to the subject of community, David E. Kelley--the prolific writer-producer behind television's The Practice and Ally McBeal--falls somewhere on a continuum between directors Howard Hawks and Robert Benton. While Hawks's professional characters are bound by a knowledge of how to do what they do even if they don't know why, Benton's people, professional or not, have long ago substituted their own eccentric reasons for that elusive why. Thus we get the kind of in-house, oddball rituals sandwiched between passages of actual work on Ally, and the ...
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Deep Impact
»rank: 2222
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A great big rock hits the earth, and lots of people die. That's pretty much all there is to it, and most of that was in the trailer. Can a major Hollywood movie really squeak by with such a slender excuse for a premise? The old disaster-movie king, cheese-meister lrwin Allen (The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake), would have made a kitsch classic out of this, with Charlton Heston, rather than a resigned and mumbly Robert Duvall, as the veteran astronaut who risks several lives trying to blow up the comet ...
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Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 11700
Chroniques et points de vue:From :After viewing the gay ensemble film The Broken Hearts Club--the subtitle of which helpfully points out that it's 'a romantic comedy'--you might feel as if you've been offered a discussion conundrum not unlike the kind that Mike Myers's Linda 'Coffee Talk' Richman would put forward: 'The Broken Hearts Club is neither romantic nor comedic. Discuss.' What it is, rather, is a gay male version of Steel Magnolias, right down to the funeral scene and hospital visit. While decidedly less melodramatic than that Southern chick flick, it still aspires to ...
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Holy Man
»rank: 17755
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Holy Man could have been a stellar satire in the tradition of Frank Capra, George Stevens, or Preston Sturges. lnstead, this well-meaning romantic comedy was bluntly written by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) and broadly directed by Stephen Herek, who fared better with his 1995 drama Mr. Holland's 0pus. Their good intentions shine through, however, and while it's easy to appreciate Eddie Murphy's attempt to shift his career in a more substantial direction, Holy Man delivers some pointed criticism of commercialism and its deadening effect on spiritual well-being. Murphy ...
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K-Pax: Collector's Edition (Widescreen)
»rank: 9551
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Holy Man could have been a stellar satire in the tradition of Frank Capra, George Stevens, or Preston Sturges. lnstead, this well-meaning romantic comedy was bluntly written by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) and broadly directed by Stephen Herek, who fared better with his 1995 drama Mr. Holland's 0pus. Their good intentions shine through, however, and while it's easy to appreciate Eddie Murphy's attempt to shift his career in a more substantial direction, Holy Man delivers some pointed criticism of commercialism and its deadening effect on spiritual well-being. Murphy ...
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1408 [Blu-ray]
»rank: 18655
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Holy Man could have been a stellar satire in the tradition of Frank Capra, George Stevens, or Preston Sturges. lnstead, this well-meaning romantic comedy was bluntly written by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) and broadly directed by Stephen Herek, who fared better with his 1995 drama Mr. Holland's 0pus. Their good intentions shine through, however, and while it's easy to appreciate Eddie Murphy's attempt to shift his career in a more substantial direction, Holy Man delivers some pointed criticism of commercialism and its deadening effect on spiritual well-being. Murphy ...
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Madison
»rank: 11762
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Holy Man could have been a stellar satire in the tradition of Frank Capra, George Stevens, or Preston Sturges. lnstead, this well-meaning romantic comedy was bluntly written by Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) and broadly directed by Stephen Herek, who fared better with his 1995 drama Mr. Holland's 0pus. Their good intentions shine through, however, and while it's easy to appreciate Eddie Murphy's attempt to shift his career in a more substantial direction, Holy Man delivers some pointed criticism of commercialism and its deadening effect on spiritual well-being. Murphy ...
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