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Advantages: Good acting and good story
Disadvantages: None

...I bought when I got a VCR. This is one of those elegant Merchant-Ivory productions, which also include Maurice and A Passage to India, other E.M. Forster adaptations to film, that sets the late Victorian/early twentieth century world in upper- to upper-middle class England in such gracious light. The stars of this film include Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy Honeychurch, the heroine, and Julian Sands as George Emerson, her free-spirited suitor, who ...
...without a jacket, or kissing someone (willing) in a field of poppies. However, this flies in the face of convention, which in Victorian and post-Victorian England simply isn't done. Lucy has already been courted; the official suitor of Lucy is the stuffed-shirt Cecil Vyse, whose personality seems like it is jammed in a vise. A perfect name. This role is played by Daniel Day Lewis, in a grand performance where he underplays his natural handsomeness. ... Read review

Advantages: Great deep story line.
Disadvantages: Can become a little predictable

...so he doesn't tell anyone about him not having a child. Yet Will and Marcus start to bond and form a great relationship. However Will tries to constantly remind himself that he is an island and not to get too attached to Marcus, but he cannot stop himself from being a part of Marcus' life. This comedy is brought to life by its realistic scenarios and the serious issues which are outlined in the film intrigue and engulf the viewer's attention. The ...
...events. For example when Fiona, Marcus' mother, attempts to commit suicide Will is following behind the ambulance and through voice over which displays his thoughts he says, "It was terrible! Terrible! But driving really fast behind the ambulance was fantastic!" So is it all good? Well, yes. This is a great film to watch on a rainy day and by the end of the film it will leave you smiling but at the same time with a tear in your eye. This film brings ... Read review

Advantages: Compelling viewing if you let it draw you in
Disadvantages: Has a high opinion of itself, this may deter some viewers

I could not sleep last night, and at 2am I awoke and decided to go and watch some television, within minutes I was drawn to the movie I Want You, a title I remembered but were a little uncertain as to why. Within a few seconds however my mind rushed back through time as the story, (one I was little interested in at the time) came flooding back even though it had been ten years since I last saw it. I Want You seem's very much the sort of movie you ...
...shares a terrible secret. I Want You is a very deceptive movie, there is rather a lot going on, but at the same time little story development, things just trudge along for more or less the movies whole running time; somehow however it seems like a movie you do not want to turn away from. Everyone is slightly creepy or unusually uncomfortable with either themselves or their sexuality, all except the sexually uninhibited Smokey who knows who and what ... Read review

Advantages: a great film
Disadvantages: lots of tears

...it is about it, probebly the thought of what the main charater is going through, but thats how life really was for some people back then. One of the big things that draw me to this film is my love of Whoopie Goldburg. I can not think of one film that she has done that does'nt appeal to me. I am sure other people could name a few but i always will like her work. This particular film though has it all, great cast, great director and on top of that ...
...sit through, the trials and tribulations of 14-year-old Celie (Whoopie Goldberg) If i was in 14 year old Celies place im not so sure if i could have coped with what she had to put up with. The 14 year old child had a baby by her violent father, as soon as the baby was born he took the baby from her gving it away to god knows who. How could any child deal with that, not once but twice. The only family that love this poor gilr is her little sister ... Read review

Advantages: A very well made fim
Disadvantages: None..

...he made a comeback with Chandni (1989). The film was a huge success, with great performances and melodious music, which again brought him back to the limelight. The story of Chandni ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is a love triangle...the film begins with a wedding, where , Chandni(Sridevi) a simple and beautiful girl ,and Rohit (Rishi Kapoor), an extremely rich businessman, meet at the extended wedding celebrations and fall in love with each other and later ...
...he sees the once bubbly Chandni becoming morose and he realises that she will be stuck with him for a lifetime , and since he was not sure about his own chances of recovery, he feels it is his duty to let her go... He tells her that he wants to be by himself and that he does not need her constant attention and asks her to leave him alone. Chandni is devastated at this and pleads with him to marry her and that she would look after him but Rohit ... Read review