The profoundly moving and life affirming Fireflies In The Garden is an outstanding ... more
depiction of family dysfunction featuring an exemplary all-star cast of Hollywood’s finest including, Julia Roberts, Willem Dafoe, Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson,...
The profoundly moving and life affirming Fireflies In The Garden is an outstanding ... more
depiction of family dysfunction featuring an exemplary all-star cast of Hollywood's finest including Julia Roberts Willem Dafoe Ryan Reynolds Emily Watson Carrie-Anne Moss Ioan Gruffudd and Hayden Penettiere. Returning to his hometown in the Midwest for a family celebration romantic novelist Michael Taylor is filled with dread and trepidation at the impending reunion. But when he arrives at the family home Michael is faced with an unimaginable scenario a devastating car accident that will change everything. This is a powerful affecting film with a truly outstanding cast.
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Advantages: strong, versatile, compact, nice bright colours, fun to play with Disadvantages: none so far
I decided to buy the in the night garden ninky nonk train set from Amazon as my young daughter is a big fan of in the night garden and whenever it comes on TV she gets really excited. So as my daughter already had some of the other characters from the show I wanted her to have the whole set and since buying it the train set the ninky nonk train set has become one of her favourite toys to play with on a daily basis.
The train set can come apart and be attached on many different ways and my daughter enjoys looking at the nice bright colours and putting some of the other in the night garden characters onto the train set even though it keeps falling of now and again it keeps her busy and sometimes I hear her in fits of giggles. The train set is very cute and versatile and its great as children such as mine can have hours of fun with it ...
Advantages: doesnt break Disadvantages: kids get bored after a while but do go back to it
i did get this for my sons to have at chistmas but hes found it and he loves it. he thinks its great when he sees it on tv. its not got any little pieces that snap off and is very safe. its been tipped in and out of his toy box everyday and nothing has broked or snapped. this toy is very good toy to keep kids busey pushing it around but like everything they get bored after a while, in saying that its one of thoses toys the kids go back to and play with again and again. its pretty expensive for what it is but it makes the kids happy and your paying for the tv characters name and probably cheaper than some other tv toys. ...
Advantages: Some strong performances. Disadvantages: Soapy plotting and pedestrian direction.
Michael highlights the part?s insecurities. Carrie-Anne Moss is sympathetic as recovering alcoholic Kelly and Ioan Gruffudd is dapper as Addison.
The original music by Javier Navarrete is piano-based, using echoing minor keys that could unsettle, but are balanced by plaintive violin and cello. It gives the impression of a score that, like the film, wants to be taken seriously. However, it is too dour overall to entrance.
?Firefliesin the Garden? is one of those movies that feels like a pet project for the actors involved, designed to show they have range. But it suffers from a surfeit of issues and a lack of character development. Dennis Lee?s direction is pedestrian and his writing smacks of melodrama. Although the performances are committed, they cannot escape the soapy plotting, rendering this a mediocre production at best. Unless you ...
Dennis Lee (JESUS HENRY CHRIST) directs this film that features an impressive cast: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafor, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd, and Julia Roberts. In this drama, an already troubled family is further torn apart by a tragic accident.
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THE WORKS
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English
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Dolby Digital
DVD Description
An average American family suffers from a grave and unexpected loss that forces its members to confront past issues in this all-star ensemble drama from acclaimed director Dennis Lee (JESUS HENRY CHRIST). Julia Roberts stars as Lisa Taylor, the wife of a college professor, Charlie (Willem Dafoe), living in the Midwest. As the tale opens, the aging couple are proud parents of two grown and reasonably successful children, Michael (Ryan Reynolds) and Ryne (Shannon Lucio). Then tragedy strikes: not long after Michael arrives in town (visiting from Manhattan), Lisa perishes in a fatal car accident, leaving the family bereft of its matriarch. As the devastated Taylors feebly attempt to cope with their loss, tensions resurface that have long boiled beneath the surface between Charlie and Michael; meanwhile, Michael's estranged wife, Kelly (Carrie-Anne Moss), turns up at the funeral to pay her respects to Lisa and gradually begins making amends with Michael. When Michael announces to the family that he's planning to publish a memoir about his childhood, Lisa's younger sister, Jane (Emily Watson), grows horrified that it will unearth devastating long-buried skeletons from the family's past; moreover, it seems that prior to her death, Lisa was guarding one major secret of her own that lingers just out of view and threatens to destroy everyone's sense of familial security when it finally comes to light.
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