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A gentle comedy

Advantages: Great movie with some superb acting performances.
Disadvantages: Maybe a little slow for a younger audience

Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, details the subtleties of southern life. Adapted from Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, the movie tells the story of Miss Daisy and her chauffer, Hoke. It is a sentimental journey through the years as we watch a reluctant friendship build between a wealthy lady and her chauffer. The Plot Miss Daisy is becoming a danger on the highways as she manages to write-off her car in her own driveway. ...
...eventually allows Hoke to be her chauffer. As the movie progresses in its quiet and sometimes funny way we see a reluctant friendship develop as the two realize they have much in common. Hoke, with his gentleness and patience begins to win the war against the temperamental Miss Daisy. As Miss Daisy’s synagogie is attacked, Hoke points out similarities between the Klu-Klux-Klans attacks on black churches. The movie is tinged with sadness throughout ...

Simoncook1 26.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition) (DVD)

As Good As It Gets

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...an oscar for his role as Melvin Udall as did Helen Hunt for her role as Carol Connelly. The love/hate relationship that develops between these superb actors undoubtedly makes the film so good. Plot themes include Melvin's obsessive compulsive disorder, Carol dealing with her son's illness and Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear) bringing up homosexuality. Each role is acted beautifully but the two stars of the show have to be Jack Nicholson and the dog. Nicholson ...
...such as "sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here," (Jack Nicholson) Nicholson delivers comedy at its best. Nicholson is forced to transform his bitter ways when delegated a down-right adorable dog, which gradually, along with helping Carol's son's health develops someone who you can sit and watch over and over again. James L. Brooks has distributed a classic that I propose needs owning on DVD. I would not advise for young audiences as ...

ZoeKRx 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of As Good As It Gets (DVD)

One Man And A Piano

Advantages: fantastic comedy show
Disadvantages: some dodgy camera angles

...you would like. 1 Ready For This. This is the opening song for the show and Minchin comes onto the stage in a blaze of strobe lights and opens the show with a great little rock ditty where he manages to poke fun at himself while accompanied by a recording of him beatboxing with back up singers. 2 Prejudice In our modern free spoken society There is a word that we still hold taboo A word with a terrible history Of being used to ...
...to gingers, the playground taunt of choice. A hilarious song that manages to use more ginger puns than you thought existed! 3 America America is not a song but a stand up routine which discusses how forward Americans are compared to Australians and British people and are not afraid to shout about their achievements. Somehow the dialogue manages to veer onto the big bang and what will happen to a certain office block in Times Square in Manhattan ...

wigglylittleworm 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ready For This - Tim Minchin

A night you would want to remember!

Advantages: Funny, Famous cameo, Unpredictable
Disadvantages: slightly unbelievable at times.

Well I saw the Hangover in the cinema, and I plan on purchasing on DVD in the near future. I thought this film was hilarious - one of my friends more so as he decided to go to watch it in the cinema about 3 or 4 times! I personally felt the star of the show so to speak was Zach Galifianakis who played slightly odd soon to be brother in law Alan. I just thought his stupidity/twisted sense of humour was really funny, and entertained me all the way ...
...really, but at the same time quite amusing. I won't go into too much detail of what happens as I don't want to spoil any of the suprises during the film. Basically, the film is about a group of guys who go to Vegas for a bloke called Doug to have a stag night. Doug doesn't really feature in the film other than the beginning and end - as he goes missing - which is the point of the film. They wake up the morning after with a trashed hotel room, and ...

adz_mc 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Hangover (DVD)

Golden British Comedy

Advantages: comedy, length, price, extras
Disadvantages: /

Last Christmas I received Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold DVD, which over the course of the year I watched on many occasions. When I discovered a second DVD was going to be released, I couldn't wait. The television series was still as strong as ever, and a second DVD would make it perfect. The ITV show itself is incredible. Each week Harry sits down for half an hour to point out of all the funny things that have happened in TV. For example, Coleen Nolan ...
...on the front of it Harry Hill is pointing a large remote at us whilst wearing his trademark black suit and white shirt with the enormous collar. Underneath the DVD title is written in bright gold lettering to allow it to stand out. It is one that is easily spotted and looks wonderful too. Of course, it is what is on the inside that counts! With this, you can watch all the best bits of the last series', giving you a show a little over an hour. So ...

Amy69 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Harry Hill's TV Burp Gold 2 (DVD)