Screen sensation Nicole Kidman (MOULIN ROUGE, EYES WIDE SHUT) delivers an utterly unforgettable performance in this scary and stylish suspense thriller. While awaiting her husband’s return from war, Grace (Kidman) and her two young children live an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded island mansion. Then, after three mysterious servants arrive and it becomes chillingly clear that there is far more to his house than can be seen, Grace finds herself in a harrying fight to save her children and keep her sanity. Acclaimed by critics everywhere, the unpredictable twists and turns of this compelling hit will keep you guessing as it keeps you riveted to the edge of your seat!

A welcome throwback to the spooky traditions of Jack Clayton’s The Innocents and Robert Wise’s The Haunting, Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others favors atmosphere, sound, and suggestion over flashy special effects. Set in 1945 on a fog-enshrouded island off the British coast, the film begins with a scream as Grace (Nicole Kidman) awakens from some unspoken horror, perhaps arising from her religiously overprotective concern for her young children, Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley). The children are hypersensitive to light and have lived in a musty manor with curtains and shutters perpetually drawn. With Grace’s husband presumably lost at war, this ominous setting perfectly accommodates a sense of dreaded expectation, escalating when three strangers arrive in response to Grace’s yet-unposted request for domestic help. Led by housekeeper Mrs. Mills (Fionnula Flanagan), this mysterious trio is as closely tied to the house’s history as Grace’s family is–as are the past occupants seen posthumously posed in a long-forgotten photo album.

With her justly acclaimed performance, Kidman maintains an emotional intensity that fuels the film’s supernatural underpinnings. And while Amenábar’s pacing is deliberately slow, it befits the tone of penetrating anxiety, leading to a twist that extends the story’s reach from beyond the grave. Amenábar unveiled a similarly effective twist in his Spanish thriller Open Your Eyes (remade by Cameron Crowe as Vanilla Sky), but where that film drew debate, The Others is finely crafted to provoke well-earned goose bumps and chills down the spine. –Jeff Shannon

Although there were some slow parts in this movie, Nicole Kidman’s character is so bizarre that I was able to keep interested in this movie even during the slow parts. I kept trying to figure her out.
An example of her bizarre behavior is in the beginning when she takes all these special precautions and administers warnings before anyone can even see her kids. I kept wondering if her kids had rabies or something.

There’s a plot twist involving the elderly couple that is pretty easy to figure out. But the plot twist at the end completely shocked me. I had NO idea that was coming. When I watched the movie a second time, I noticed important clues that I had missed the first time.

I love when a story can surprise me like that. Very clever!

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Oprah Winfrey Presents THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, the story of a remarkable and resilient woman’s quest for love and fulfillment based on the best-selling book by Zora Neale Hurston. Academy Award(R) winner Halle Berry (Best Actress 2003, MONSTERS BALL) stars as the beautiful Janie Crawford, who embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey of self-discovery. Refusing to compromise in spite of society’s expectations, Janie endures two stifling marriages until finally finding love in a passionate romance with a much younger man. In one of the greatest, most lyrical love stories ever written, Janie experiences all that life has to offer, from unbelievable triumph to unspeakable heartbreak. Be inspired again and again by this timeless story of passion, romance, and the spirit of true love. ~

Produced by Oprah Winfrey, this lush, yet earthy telefilm was adapted from the 1937 novel by Zora Neale Hurston. Set in rural Florida, the story begins several years after emancipation. Janie (a soulful Halle Berry) is a dreamy-eyed teenager, who never knew her parents. She was raised by the bitter Nanny (Ruby Dee), an ex-slave, who marries her off to an older man the minute she gets the chance. Mr. Killicks works Janie like a dog, but leaves her alone otherwise (he’s abusive in the book). Then Janie meets the courtly Joe (Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lackawanna Blues), who whisks her away from the muck to the black township of Eatonville. The two proceed to transform the town from a patch of dirt into a real community. Along the way, Joe becomes mayor and Janie a mere helpmate. Except for her friend Phoeby (Nicki Micheaux), the townspeople confuse her sadness for conceit and she ends up lonelier than ever. Twenty years later, Joe dies and Janie takes up with the younger Tea Cake (Michael Ealy, Barbershop). Much like the other literary adaptations with which she’s been associated (The Color Purple, Beloved, etc.), this Oprah production boasts an impressive line-up of African-American talent, including Terrence Howard (Crash) as the covetous Amos. A mostly successful mix between suds and substance, Their Eyes Were Watching God, which premiered on ABC, was directed by Darnell Martin, co-written by Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan Lori-Parks, and graced with a classy score by frequent Spike Lee collaborator Terence Blanchard. –Kathleen C. Fennessy

I first saw this movie on HBO some years ago and I just simply loved it. The way that Halle Berry’s character grows up being such a loving woman who does not allow herself to become what any other person wants her to be in her life. This black woman cherishes every moment in her life and she accepts so many different challenges in her life…whew!.. just a movie that you have got to experience for yourself. I still love it after watching it on HBO, buying the book and now actually owning the dvd.

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From Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, and Jon Turteltaub, director of PHENOMENON, comes NATIONAL TREASURE. It’s the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat adventure starring Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (1995 Best Actor, LEAVING LAS VEGAS) as Benjamin Franklin Gates. Ever since he was a boy, Gates has been obsessed with finding the legendary Knights Templar Treasure, the greatest fortune known to man. As Gates tries to find and decipher ancient riddles that will lead him to it, he’s dogged by a ruthless enemy (Sean Bean, THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy) who wants the riches for himself. Now in a race against time, Gates must steal one of America’s most sacred and guarded documents — the Declaration of Independence — or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands. Heart-pounding chases, close calls, and the FBI turn Gates’s quest into a high-stakes crime caper and the most exciting treasure hunt you’ve ever experienced.

Like a Hardy Boys mystery on steroids, National Treasure offers popcorn thrills and enough boyish charm to overcome its rampant silliness. Although it was roundly criticized as a poor man’s rip-off of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Da Vinci Code, it’s entertaining on its own ludicrous terms, and Nicolas Cage proves once again that one actor’s infectious enthusiasm can compensate for a multitude of movie sins. The contrived plot involves Cage’s present-day quest for the ancient treasure of the Knights Templar, kept secret through the ages by Freemasons past and present. Finding the treasure requires the theft of the Declaration of Independence (there are crucial treasure clues on the back, of course!), so you can add “caper comedy” to this Jerry Bruckheimer production’s multi-genre appeal. Nobody will ever accuse director Jon Turtletaub of artistic ambition, but you’ve got to admit he serves up an enjoyable dose of PG-rated entertainment, full of musty clues, skeletons, deep tunnels, and harmless adventure in the old-school tradition. It’s a load of hokum, but it’s fun hokum, and that makes all the difference. –Jeff Shannon

Ben Gates comes from a family of treasure hunters. Now his grandfather believes that the forefathers’ buried a treasure somewhere in the country and have placed clues everywhere but unfortunately the clues are highly cryptic and scaterred all over the place. Now Ben thinks he has found it but it only leads him to another clue which is on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now one of his associates Ian wants to steal it so that they could get the clue but Ben refuses to do it so he tries to kill Ben. But Ben evades him and tries to warn the authorities about Ian’s plans but they don’t believe him. So Ben takes it upon himself to steal it in order to protect it. And he does but Abigail Chase the curator of the National Archives, where it is kept, discovers what he has done and tries to stop him but gets caught in the crossfire between Ben and Ian, so Ben takes her with him. While she doesdn’t believe him, he is determined to prove he is right about the treasure. But it won’t be easy cause Ian’s always a step behind him and he is being hunted by the FBI. An excellent movie, packed with suspense, good acting, plot, from beginning to end. Enjoy it.

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From Tim Burton, acclaimed director of BIG FISH, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, and BATMAN, and the producer of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, comes the hilarious, true-life story of the wackiest filmmaker in Hollywood history, Ed Wood! Johnny Depp (PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, CHOCOLAT, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS) stars as the high-spirited movieman who refuses to let unfinished scenes, terrible reviews, and hostile studio executives derail his big-screen dreams. With an oddball collection of showbiz misfits, Ed takes the art of bad moviemaking to an all-time low! The all-star cast features Bill Murray (LOST IN TRANSLATION, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS), Sarah Jessica Parker (TV’s SEX AND THE CITY), Patricia Arquette (STIGMATA, LITTLE NICKY), and an Academy Award(R)-winning performance by Martin Landau (Best Supporting Actor, 1994) as Bela Lugosi. Hailed by critics everywhere, this laugh-packed comedy hit is sure to entertain everyone!

Edward D. Wood Jr. was an actor writer-director-producer, occasionally in drag, who combined meager bursts of talent with an undying optimism to create some of the most bizarrely memorable “B” movies to ever come out of Tinseltown. Though Wood died in obscurity as an alcoholic in 1978, his films have been considered cult classics for years. He is consistently voted the worst director who ever lived. You would think this an odd subject, but director Tim Burton harnesses the undying hopefulness that made Wood such a character. Shot in black and white, just like Wood’s creations, this stylized, witty production captures the poetic absurdity of Wood’s films and his unconventional life. Burton’s recreation of Wood’s wonderfully awful Plan 9 from Outer Space looks much better than the original low-budget quickie. Burton tackled an extremely strange subject matter for a biopic, but Wood is presented as naive almost to the point of delusion, so the story works. The pace sags in the middle, as the weirdness starts to wear thin, but Depp proves himself an adroit actor, even while wearing angora and a blonde wig. Wood’s unconventional repertoire company is faithfully reproduced, including an Academy Award-winning Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. Landau is pathetic, droll, and charismatic as the elderly junkie who made his last screen appearances in Wood’s films. –Rochelle O’Gorman

Ed Wood is notorious everywhere for being the worst directer ever to grace Hollywood. I dont’ exactly believe that myself like some others, he actually doesn’t seem so, as there are other directors that are worse (such as Uwe Boll, who is not the answer to Ed Wood in the 21st century, by the way). Unlike the aforementioned jerk director, Ed Wood, for all his crappy shortcomings and low budget production values that become strangely hilarious, he becomes are very likeable director, one who loves the movies and loves And while Glen or Glenda is probably a bad movie, the whole aspect of how it’s like to hold a secret actually has some weight and seems like Ed Wood, maybe, just maybe, actually had something to say (of course, that movie’s message is slathered in a creepy premise, which is why I probably would never watch it even if it was made alright, but that’s another story). Ed Wood is a portrayl of all of the above, which makes this biopic very appealing.

Ed Wood’s life could easily by split in many parts. Ed Wood spans his life from Glen or Glenda to the premiere of Plan 9 From Outer Space. His homelife, his relationship with Bela, the colorful people he encountered during this time period,and the making of his movies are all portrayed on screen. Ed Wood isn’t all the way historically accurate; for example, Ed Wood never met Orson Welles, and Bela was actually married. However, Ed Wood would keep anybody who liked Ed Wood in a way because of the way he’s portrayed, and what he was doing that made him likeable is present in the movie. Unless your part of the Golden Rasberry Awards, you’ll probably end up liking Ed Wood in the movie.

Ed Wood’s life wasn’t all fun and games, as many of the grimmer times of his life, such as his later life with ended in death, is not here. And I am not quite sure if the premiere However, Tim Burton and the screenwriters specifically wanted his life to be somewhat sympathetic here, and they do very well. It’s also very funny, with outlandish situations to go along with his so bad it’s good aura. What also makes the movie is the way he interacts with many of the people, which often ends in hilarity, with some wit to go with it. Bela is also hilarious, especially when he gets ticked off after hearing someone compare him to Boris Karloff.

The cast and director really shine. The cast, with the offbeat Johnny Depp, very hot Patrica Arquette (though she was hotter in True Romance), Bill Murray as a tranny, Sarah Jessica Parker (she’s…..she’s, okay, she’s not as impressive as the others), and Martin Landau. Martin Landau actually beat out Jules Winfield… errr Samuel L Jackson from Pulp Fiction (QUENTIN TARANTINO RULES! Oh sorry) in the oscars. Actually really well deserved, unlike the best picture of 1994 (REPRESENT! Oh Sorry). These characters are really well portrayed, letting you get involved in the life of Ed Wood and the many people who were around with him. Tim Burton’s style of directing (shot in black and white) is suberb, and many artistic flourishes abound. The cheap sets of a low budget movie, the many cheap special effects are on display, and the regular sets and shots are great. The other academy award winner, for best makeup, was well deserved, particulary because it made Landau a great recreation of an old Bela Lugosi. And the opening credits are a prime example of Ed Wood’s fine artistic quality, with the very campy and infectious theme (which shows up as a music video in the extras) with a Theremin in use.

I really dont’ quite understand however, why the film drags. It adds some kind of an insight to the filmmaking process, or something, or at least some humor in it. Eh, I really don’t understand that claim. Sure, Ed Wood isn’t exactly a knockout (hence why it doesn’t get five stars), but Ed Wood is easily my favorite biopic, with a topic that you just can’t get enough of, and entertaining with some great laughs. Tim Burton style really cements the movie and makes it a full on fine movie. Highly recommended view of one of Hollywood’s most lovable directors (in the Chicago Cubs way), further cemeted by the portrayol of this movie.

B+

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Includes all 24 episodes completely restored & remastered plus 2 never-before-seen episode bonus features & jim hensons original pitch reel that propelled the muppets into a primetime hit for all ages. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/09/2005

The charm, the zaniness, the corny jokes, the showbiz cliches–every element of The Muppet Show holds up 30 years after Jim Henson’s legendary variety series’ debut season. Well, perhaps not everything: Today’s younger viewers might have a hard time placing some of The Muppet Show’s then-guest stars, such as Florence Henderson or Ruth Buzzi. But then, the Show’s real celebrities are perennial icons Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the… whatever, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and the rest of the Muppets’ harried, well-meaning family of entertainers. Season One finds the show pretty much in the basic shape longtime fans will remember: A musical introduction followed by backstage chaos, another musical number, a sketch, a scene with the guest star, and so on. A half-hour episode can fly by pretty quickly, but it’s interesting to note that the series hadn’t quite found its familiar tone through much of the first year. A reliance on too many disposable verbal jokes and redundant, so-so material for sketch fodder ultimately gives way to more creative premises and the development of key relationships between characters. By the final half-dozen episodes in the first season, The Muppet Show is truly cooking. Season highlights include Kermit’s confession to guest Juliet Prowse that he always wanted to be a dancer, and Prowse’s comparison of the little green superstar to Robert Redford. Joel Grey does a cabaret-style act for a roomful of Muppets and is later outraged when Kermit’s introduction of the actor proves so thorough there is nothing left for the latter to say. Rita Moreno proves quite game in a funny piece, set in a French cafe, in which her dance with a man-size Muppet turns from romantic to table-smashing violent. Harvey Korman plays bumbling ringmaster Maurice the Magnificent, easily the worst animal trainer in history. Phyllis Diller bats out shameless one-liners (”I sang ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,’ and it fell on me”), and Vincent Price toys with his own horror film image by playing a ghoul who turns into a maudlin orchestra conductor at midnight. –Tom Keogh

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I love Muppets, the first season is available in Italy , my country , but on the italians dvd i did’nt find 8 episodes (i dont know why)and then i bought the season one on Amazon ,and now i can see all the 24 episodes.I’m very happy, i thank Amazon and the seller.Have a great day!!Bye bye!!!

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This tedious remake of the classic Christmas movie The Bishop’s Wife falls on its face by significantly altering the careful design of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert E. Sherwood’s story for the original film. In Sherwood’s version, a rather wooden, inept bishop and his lonely wife unknowingly take into their lives a heaven-sent angel who aids the former and ends up falling in love with the latter. In this unnecessary update, an inner-city preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his estranged spouse (Whitney Houston) are visited by a celestial goof (Denzel Washington), whose unsolicited offer of help is enough to galvanize Vance’s character to fix his own problems. What that means is this: by the second act, there’s no reason to have Washington’s angel in the story. Even his infatuation with the missus isn’t enough to warrant his hanging around this movie; the change is a colossal blunder by director Penny Marshall. Vance ends up stealing the film from Washington, but it’s a Pyrrhic victory; for the most part this movie just seems like a series of random scenes between opportunities for Houston to belt out songs. –Tom Keogh

Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 11/11/2003 Rating: Pg

This movie, though simplistic in plot and very predictable in outcome, exemplifies the spirit of Christmas. The actors give sound performances and Whitney Houston is electrifying in her acting and singing. This movie was obviously done before her tragic downfall. Denzel, as always gives a good performance as the angel sent from heaven to save a marriage and a church form destruction. The supporting actors give strong performances that make this a very tight film. I would place this movie on the annual family “must watch” list at Christmastime, along with A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE ORIGINAL 1932 CHRISTMAS CAROL, AND THE CHRISTMAS STORY.

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To call Pearl Harbor a throwback to old-time war movies is something of an understatement. Director Michael Bay’s epic take on the bombing that brought the United States into World War II hijacks every war movie situation and cliché (some affectionate, some stale) you’ve ever seen and gives them a shiny, glossy spin until the whole movie practically gleams. Planes glisten, water sparkles, trees beckon–and Bay’s re-creation of the bombing itself, a 30-minute sequence that’s tightly choreographed and amazingly photographed, sets the action movie bar up quite a few notches. And in updating the classic war film, Bay and screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart) use that old plot standby, the love triangle–this time, it’s between two pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett) and a nurse (Kate Beckinsale) who find themselves stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, during what they thought would be a nice, sunny tour of duty. Then, of course, history intervened.

For the first 90 minutes of the movie, Affleck and Beckinsale find a nice, appealing chemistry that plays on his strengths as a movie star and hers as a serious actress–he gives her glamour, she gives him smarts. Their truncated romance–the beginning of which is told in flashback so we can get right to the point where he has to leave her to go to England–works, thanks to their charm. They’re no Kate and Leo from Titanic (a strategy the film strives hard toward), but they’re pretty darn adorable in their own right. Hartnett, as the not entirely unwelcome third wheel, squints bravely but makes only a slight dent in the film. Everyone else in Pearl Harbor–from Cuba Gooding Jr.’s brave navy seaman to Jon Voight’s able impersonation of FDR–is pretty much a glorified walk-on, taking a backseat to the pyrotechnics and action sequences that keep the three-hour film in fairly constant motion. But when that action does take hold, Pearl Harbor is quite a thrilling ride. –Mark Englehart

Product was listed “like new” but when I got it, it was not. When I asked to make an exchange, they refunded my money right away and let me keep the product. I would do business with them again because of that.

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Its hilarious fun when two carefree babes reinvent themselves to impress their classmates at their high school reunion. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Mira Sorvino Lisa Kudrow Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R

Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino play ditzy best friends who decide to attend their 10-year high school reunion, but they completely make over their styles and identities first in order to impress the people who tormented them. The two stars keep the film going despite various lapses and potholes in David Mirkin’s direction and despite a sneaking sense that the idea can’t sustain the length of an entire feature. A midsection dream sequence underscores the latter problem through blatant padding, but Sorvino and Kudrow–both of whom became established stars playing airheads on other projects–are worth the weaknesses. –Tom Keogh

Romy White (Mira Sorvino) and Michele Weinberger (Lisa Kudrow) have been friends since they met at Sagebrush High in Tucson. Since then they both moved to Los Angeles, and they live together, but other than getting out of Tucson they are what might be described as under achievers. Michele is unemployed and Romy works as a cashier in the service department of a Jaguar dealership. They do, however, have flair, style, and share a unique fashion sense.

At the Jaguar dealership Romy recognizes Heather Mooney (Janeanne Garofalo), another Sagebrush alumna, in line. Heather is obviously doing well if she can afford a Jag. She has no time for old High School chums, and barely conceals her disdain, until Heather hears that Romy is still friends with Michele, and it is revealed that Heather had a crush on Sandy Frink (Alan Cumming), who totaled ignored Heather because of his infatuation with Michele.

Michele, for her part, was indifferent to Sandy’s affection, because Sandy was kind of a dork. They called him the Frink-a-zoid, and isn’t that always the way it is with these love triangles, or perhaps it was a trapezoid or even a rhomboid, or some other kind of oblique-angled parallelogram with unequal adjacent sides

The 10-Year High School Reunion looms on the horizon and the die is cast. Though Heather claims she wouldn’t be caught dead there, they all have a date with destiny.

Romy and Michele want to lose weight, get good jobs, and good boyfriends. When two weeks proves to be too short a time to meet their objectives, they go to Plan B: Claim to be the inventors of Post-Its, and therefore rich and successful. That plan doesn’t really work out, either, but at least we get a good comedy romp where scores are settled, lessons are learned, and a good time is had by most.

Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow create quite the whacky kooks. Though Sorvino won an Oscar for Mighty Aphrodite, she doesn’t have to resort to quite such a cartoonish voice for her Romy. Though Sorvino is certainly talented, I always thought that Oscar she won for Aphrodite was kind of a My Cousin Vinnyish fluke. If I could hand out Oscars, she’d get one for this movie instead. The part where she tells off the queen bee of the “A” group alone could qualify her for one.

Romy and Michele are bottle blonde bimbos, but their dark roots are showing. Lisa Kudrow received a degree in Biology from Vassar College, and Mira Sorvino a degree in Asian Studies from Harvard University, so during production of Romy and Michele, they nicknamed each other “Smart” and “Smarter”.

An excellent counterbalance to their blonde humor is the dark and bitter Janeanne Garofalo. She makes those withering remarks that you wish you would’ve thought of back when you were being tormented in High School. She is a tough cookie, but then she has that vulnerable side. She can take the most polite and pedestrian prose, but through her brilliant delivery you sense the subtle malice seething underneath that thin veneer.

Alan Cumming made a great dork, and though he was kind of a deus ex machina, plot wise, he does get to finally dance with his beloved Michele, though only if Romy can dance with her, so it is still a triangle, albeit an isosceles triangle with the two equal sides of Romy and Michele. It is an interesting twist on the whole dance at the prom or reunion scene, and is set to the lovely 80’s ballad “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper. The title fits in well with the whole reunion theme, too.

Director David Mirkin does a great job for someone who has mostly worked in television. He keeps the jokes and pop culture references flowing — Mary Tyler Moore Show, Pretty Woman, Footloose — he has the boys in the Jaguar Service Department watching The Simpsons, and as an inside joke, it is one that he directed. Though he worked mostly in television, it was good television. Besides The Simpsons, there was the brilliant but short lived Chris Elliot vehicle Get a Life, Newhart, and The Larry Sanders Show. Mirkin did a great job directing this film, and even his name is funny.

Although I told myself I was looking merely for a soothing presence, a glorified pot-au-feu, an animated merkin, I settled for “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion.” Ah, the High School Reunion Genre, it must have been something in the zeitgeist of 1997, because that year also saw the release of “Grosse Pointe Blank,” also featuring a 10-Year High School Reunion; only this one had a better selection of music, and the protagonist, Martin Q. Blank, was a professional hit man, so his problem was what to tell people he did for a living since graduating.

The shot gun marriage of action movie with High School Reunion comedy that was “Grosse Pointe Blank” didn’t work nearly as well as R&M’sHSR, but Romy and Michele also had trouble telling people what they did for a living, since Romy was a cashier, and Michele was unemployed. Not very impressive.

Though Romy and Michele were not very impressive, “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” was very impressive. Very impressive, indeed.

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Michele: Hey Romy, remember Mrs. Divitz’s class, there was like always a word problem. Like, there’s a guy in a rowboat going X miles, and the current is going like, you know, some other miles, and how long does it take him to get to town? It’s like, ‘Who cares? Who wants to go to town with a guy who drives a rowboat?
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SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY OF MIRA SORVINO

Beautiful Girls (1996) …. Sharon Cassidy
Mighty Aphrodite (1995) …. Linda Ash

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY OF LISA KUDROW

Hotel for Dogs (Widescreen Edition) (2009) …. Lois Scudder
… aka Das Hundehotel (Germany)
Wonderland (2003) …. Sharon Holmes

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY OF JANEANE GAROFALO

Wonderland (2003) …. Joy Miller
Mystery Men (1999) …. The Bowler
The Cable Guy (Full Screen) (1996) …. Medieval Times Waitress
The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996) …. Abby
Reality Bites (10th Anniversary Edition) (1994) …. Vickie Miner

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY OF ALAN CUMMING

Josie and The Pussycats (2001) …. Wyatt Frame
Spice World (1997) …. Piers

Romy: Have a “Romy and Michele” day!

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