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What a fashion show!

Advantages: brilliant performance, great story
Disadvantages: none

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 comedy-drama directed by the American film director David Frankel. He directed Marley & Me recently. The film got several nominations and several awards. For example Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. The screenplay was written by Aline Brosh McKenna based on the novel of Lauren Weisberger. The film was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The running time is 109 minutes. The classification is 12 ...
...Cooper (Andrea’s boyfriend) The Plot ------------ Andrea Sachs is a young woman who freshly graduated from Northwestern University and is looking for a job. She wants to be a journalist. She goes to an interview to Runway. She is not dressed as stylish as the members of the staff so everybody looks very strange to her. Her interview is not a success so she goes home but right after she reached the reception she is called back that Miranda gave her ...

D_i_a_n_e 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (DVD)

Feel good family of Freaks.

Advantages: Funny, and all round good comedy and acting.
Disadvantages: none!

...believes she can win the Little Miss Sunshine beauty contest, 800 miles across the country. The film shows how even the most dysfunctional families can pull together when they need to. Steve Carell heightens the humour as a suicidal brother in law, living with the dysfunctional Hoover family. Foul Mouthed grandpa (Alan Kirkin) is a sex-obsessed drug addict, with a son – Richard (Greg Kinnear), who’s speeches to his children about winning are as interesting ...
...shown in the film) Also little girls reaching perfection, overshadowed by their parents own eagerness to succeed, is not the best way to start a young girls life; the early years of life is when our personalities develop. If young children are lead to believe their worth and value as human beings depend on their physical appearance, then this is likely to become their belief throughout their life. As much as the end is funny, it does seem to end ...

jamespaton 26.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Little Miss Sunshine (DVD)

Sometimes the truth is 'Stranger Than Fiction'.

Advantages: A unique, intriguing and well-written story with some powerful performances.
Disadvantages: the ending has been considered by some to be too neatly tied up.

Stranger than Fiction (2006) directed by Marc Forster is a somewhat dark comedy centred around a man called Harold Crick (played by Will Farrell.) Harold leads a relatively mundane and lonely life as an IRS auditor. Everyday he wakes up at the same time, ties his tie in the same knot, gets the same bus, eats the same lunch alone and then makes his way home to eat dinner at his single one-bedroom apartment. However, this all changes when he starts ...
...apartment. The original score and soundtrack compliments the film's story, with numbers from Spoon, The Jam's 'Entertainment' and M83's 'In Church', among others. All in all, Stranger than Fiction is a film that sucks you in with an intriguing plot line and keeps you immersed until the very end. ...

robtb88 01.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (DVD)

Very Nice

Advantages: Very Funny
Disadvantages: None

...southern family these people take borat into there lives and how he terrorizes them and what the do back to him.The way these people.Borat travels across the country to try to bring information back to his country of Kazakhstan.I highly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to laugh as much as they possibly can.Some of the things that he does cannot be explained here but trust me are hilarious. ...

DilMasterflex 27.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Borat - Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (DVD)

The Laughs Aren't Filtered Out

Advantages: Remains refreshing after multiple views; a nice alternative to the slurry of poor recent comedy films
Disadvantages: Perhaps not to everyone's taste

...tongue firmly in cheek, deliciously abstract and a claim that is testament to the dark humour layered throughout the story. Thank You For Smoking has a wit which is unquestionably infectious - one of 2006's best comedies, and safe to say a "must-buy" on DVD. ...

craig200uk 09.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Thank You For Smoking (DVD)