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Birthday Girl
with
Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin opens with a meek and desperately seeking John,
the British bank clerk looks for his dream woman. With nothing popping up, he
turns to the Internet and marries a Russian mail-order bride. The brooding
Nadia arrives knowing little English. Our banker feels duped, tries to contact
the agency that sent her over to take her back and fails. Once home, Nadia
seduces him and as fate has it, they grow closer…until her cousins show up.
Under the guise of a birthday celebration, John discovers that he has been
duped again when Nadia's cousins show up. John learns that the three of them
are nothing but con artists. He becomes a hostage and schemes on how he can
get his life and Nadia back.
Who Should See
It?-mature teens and up, on a scale from 1 to 5 Golden Eggs, it's a 2 ˝. There
is humor, nudity and adults doing dumb things that most kids would rate as
stupid.
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Mothman Prophecies
with Richard Gere, Debra Messing and Laura Linney is a quasi-suspense thriller
that probes a series of odd occurrences through the eyes and mind of a
Washington Post journalist reporter played by Gere after he decides to
investigate the circumstances surrounding his wife's death. In what starts out
as a routine drive to do a story, he ends up in Pt. Pleasant, hundreds of
miles from his intended destination and clueless as to how he got there. Our
journalist turns detective upon meeting the trusted local cop (Linney) who
shares that there are lots of strange things going on-Gere figures out that
the death of his wife is connected with it. He decides to stay in Point
Pleasant, begins to think he's losing his sanity, as he attempts to unravel
the puzzle.
Who Should See It?-teens and up, on a
scale from 1 to 5 Golden Eggs, it's a 3. I could have seen this as a rented
video.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
with Jim Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris and Dagmara Dominzyk is based on
Alexandre Dumas' classic story of an innocent man wrongly imprisoned (he's set
up by his best friend) and his strategy for revenge against those who betrayed
him. Caviezel plays the Count, who's as honest as the day is long in his youth
and is besotted by the beautiful Mercedes (Dominzyk) who his best friend
openly covets (Pearce). The Count is unlawfully sentenced to the infamous
island prison of Chateau D'If, and over time, everything he ever believed
about right and wrong is deleted and replaced with just getting even with
those who did him in. With the help of another fellow inmate (Harris), the
Count plots and succeeds in escaping-the action begins.
Who Should See It?-teens and up, on a scale from 1 to 5, it gets 3 Golden
Eggs-Harris is good as he mentors his fellow prisoner.
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Mulholland Drive
is
director David Lynch's (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet) bizarre movie that has envy,
jealousy, sex, auto crashes, weird twisted people and lesbian sex. If that's
your cup of tea-go for it. The plot is convoluted and basically
incomprehensible-supposedly a wealthy (or star-you don't know at first) woman
is threatened with her life, a car crash happens where she escapes, finds
herself in the Hollywood Hills and is befriended by an aspiring actress who
helps her find out who she is. Why people have flocked to see this film is
beyond me.
Who Should See It?-Adults only, on a scale
from 1 to 5, it gets 1 cracked Egg, I found nothing Golden about it.
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Collateral Damage
with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Good Guy Firefighter Gordy Brewer has got lots
of action, explosions, and a few twists/surprises in turn. This is one of the
movies that were pulled after 9/11. Gordy's wife and son are killed in an
explosion set up for the enemies of the Columbia guerillas, including CIA
dudes-they are "collateral damage"-innocent people who are in the wrong place
at the wrong time and die-it happens per the chief guerilla, The Wolf. Gordy
gets frustrated by what he perceives as the Government's failure in getting
The Wolf and sets out to do it his way. As a firefighter, he's got lots of
explosive know-how and uses it. The end of the movie offers the only surprise,
that is, if you haven't figured it out by then.
Who
Should See It!-only dedicated action seekers, the story is weak-1 ˝ Golden
Eggs
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Big Fat Liar
with
Frankie Muniz (Malcolm in the Middle) as Jason Shepherd is a classic fibber-he
lies about everything to the point that not even his close pal and parents
believe anything he says. Jason is nailed by his teacher for not doing a
critical story assignment and is told that he has until the end of the day to
deliver it. Jason pulls through, gets the story done-an autobiography of his
lying skills-sets out to deliver it and is hit on his bike (will, actually his
sisters girly book) by a sleazy Hollywood producer, Marty Wolf who steals his
story and sets out to produce it. This movie had the potential to be fun and
ended up a dud.
Who Should See It!-kids from 8-12,
the story is weak, but this group may like it-1 ˝ Golden Eggs
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John Q
with Denzel
Washington (as John Q), Robert Duvall, James Woods, Anne Heche will tick-off
hospitals and HMOs. It's a story about a father who tries to work with the
system and gets dumped on. From hours cut back on the job; to the employer
Mickey-Mousing around with insurance benefits; to a quasi-cold witch (Anne
Heche) hospital administrator who can green light whether John's son gets on
the heart transplant list; to the extremes that John Q will go to save his
son, including taking the hospital ER hostage. This is a good flick and worth
your time.
Who Should Go See?-teens and up. 4 Golden
Eggs.
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