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Understanding A Beautiful Mind.

Advantages: An excellent award winning drama, based on a true story.
Disadvantages: None!

My Reason For Purchasing A Beautiful Mind DVD. I wrote this review a year or so ago for another review site which has since closed. I thought I would upload it here as A Beautiful Mind is one of my favourite Drama films ever and I just wanted to recommend it and give some opinions on it. There is quite a few reviews already about it, but I just wanted to give my two cents worth also. A Beautiful mind is one of my favourite Russell Crowe Movies. ...
...I watched this film a few years ago at the Movie house and I enjoyed it so much, that I bought it on DVD when it first was released. I have watched it several times over the years and each time I do, I love it more and always seem to pick up on something I missed in the film the previous time I watched it. This really is an excellent film that really will keep you glued to your seat in my opinion. Well this Movie was first released on December 21, ...

hillhead 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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How many stars does it take to do Dickens?

Advantages: A beautifully fresh presentation
Disadvantages: Some poor "English" accents

...A brief plot outline Nicholas Nickleby is dead. (This seems to be a theme of how Dickens starts his novels!) But we are not concrned with that Nicholas Nickleby, it is his son ... young Nicholas Nickleby who is the hero of our tale. After his father's suden death leaving his family with little money the young Nicholas goes to his uncle in town for advice. As you can imagine the uncle is loaded but does not help the Nickelby's at all. He manages ...
...Hall. Now Nicholas is warned that this school is not pleasant by an old friend of his fathers but he goes none the less. When he arrives at Dotheboys he is greated by malnourished, down trodden young boys who seem closer to death than receiving a good education. In particular the young boy Smike is the Headmaster's servant boy and often beaten. As you can imagine Nicholas is there to become the boy's saviour and helps Smike to escape. He then beats ...

nkemp_99 03.02.2007 · Read full review
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A heart-lifting love story that reaches across time.

Advantages: Last 5 minutes, Lake House
Disadvantages: A bit slow

...reaches across time. The Lake House is a 2006 love story featuring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock as the main characters. It is called a heart-lifting love story that reaches across time. Unfortunately for me, this movie never really took off. I had high hopes for it as I was hoping that these two actors could recreate the magic and chemistry they had in the movie Speed but I just found this movie a bit slow and that it never reached its full potential. ...
...to each character. The movie is described as magical but I somehow seemed to miss this portion, I would definitely not describe it as magical, more just a bit of a coincidence. The movie was sort of centered about a LAke House that Alex's father built years ago before he became a famous architect. Alex's father is played by the amazing Christopher Plummer. They have a somewhat of a troubled relationship but Kate tries to bring them together in her ...

Spottydog11 18.09.2009 · Read full review
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Whistleblower

Advantages: Intense, eye-opening, thrilling
Disadvantages: Dodgy camera shots

Al Pacino plays the journalist and Russell Crowe is Jeffrey Wigand, a former executive of tobacco company, Brown & Williamson & a whistleblower. The Story Jeffrey returns home, dejected & humiliated. He has just been fired from his job. But worse is to follow when he is approached by a journalist filled with questions about a document on cigarettes & fire safety belonging to another company. He is concerned to mention a confidentiality agreement ...
...legal action & to withdraw the ‘severance package’ of benefits he had from them. Then the threats draw closer to home, becoming more intimidating & more sinister. In order to escape the limitations on what he can say, Jeffrey must be legally obliged to breach the confidentiality agreement. However, a restraining order is made in the court of Kentucky against Wigand preventing him from doing so when he agrees to testify in a court of Mississippi about ...

Ayesha- 01.06.2007 · Read full review
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Somewhere in Time DVD

Advantages: Feel Good Movie, Soothing and Touching
Disadvantages: Incredible plot

This is a change of image for my favorite Superman. This film is for the hopeless romantics such as me. The plot is not credible to happen in real life but who cares! This is not the first movie that used incredible plot. Hence despite this and some hard to believe things like when Richard just closes his eyes and concentrate to travel through time and a lot of unbelievable coincidences, I still found the movie worth my time. It was so sweet. It ...
...sacrificing everything in his present time just to search for his past love. That is true love and it hits my soft spot. The acting may not be superb but passable. The soundtrack is very impressive. This is what I love most. I have watched this movie twice and each time it did not fail to make me fall in love again. ...

wonderlily 05.11.2008 · Read full review
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