A year ago, Jack suffered a terrifying car accident. He emerged from it alive but others ... more
weren't so lucky. Now Jack is plagued by recurring nightmares of the tragedy and he returns home to try to rid himself of these terrifying nightly visions. Soon, h...
Production Year: 1980 - Horror - Director: Stanley Kubrick - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Advantages: Good balance of comedy and drama, good performances, quirky. Disadvantages: Horrid soundtrack, Samantha Mathis.
The only reason I had a watch of Jack and Sarah was the constant comments I kept reading about how Kevin Smith's Jersey Girl was little more than a remake of it. While there are certainly some similar plot points, on the whole though I would say that the two are entirely different. The best part though was finding a nice little film that I probably would have missed otherwise.
Walking the line between drama and comedy is not an easy one for any film. If you're trying to push serious themes, it becomes difficult to crack jokes at the same time. Likewise, a dramatic event in a comedic film can be a very jarring experience that works against the film. I'm glad to say though that Jack and Sarah balances between the two very steadily, only stumbling from time to time.
The film focuses on Jack (Richard E Grant), a London lawyer who ...
Advantages: Good acting and a good story Disadvantages: None
The Jack Bull- A Review By Addy
The Jack bull is based on based on a novel by Heinrich von Kleist called Michael Kohlhaas. This made for Television film was released in 1999. The Jack Bull film is a western film that relies more on a heavily entertaining plot rather than all out action for entertainment.
Jack Bull: A metaphorical Jack Russell terrier that, once it's annoyed enough to close its jaws on something, will hang on to the point of death.
Director: John Badham (Short Circuit, Another Stakeout)
Genre: Western/Drama
Running Time: 115 Min
Certificate: UK 15
Cast
John Cusack - Myrl Redding
John Goodman - Judge Tolliver
L.Q. Jones - Henry Ballard
Miranda Otto - Cora Redding
John C. McGinley - Woody
Rodney A. Grant - Billy
Kurt Fuller - Conrad
Rex Linn - Shelby Dykes
Drake Bell - Cage ...
Advantages: Great Classic story with a twist, and magnificent ending. Disadvantages: 3 hours 20 minutes- a bit long
of giants- yes, there's more than one: He must correct the wrongs of the past and return the magical harp and the golden egg laying goose to their rightful home. Can he do it in time before he turns thirty? Well you will just have to find out?
The film is a visually captivating reproduction on the tale of Jack the Giant Killer that implies Jack to be a liar and a thief - the bad guy in all of this. The film is astounding and set in modern times gives the marvellous fairy tale a great twist. It implies that Jack's theft of the goose that laid the golden eggs and the singing mystical harp results in three hundred and sixty four days of famine for the denizens of the giant's world, and that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was in fact a beneficent and loved keeper of his people.
It's a great DVD package presented in the original ...
One year ago, Jack suffered a terrifying car accident in his Midwestern hometown. He emerged from it alive, but others weren't so lucky. Now Jack is plagued by recurring nightmares of the tragedy, and he returns home to try to rid himself of his terrifying nightly visions. Once there, however, he realizes that the nightmares contain the crucial details of what really happened that fateful night, and when the others who were involved start dying off, Jack realizes that he is merely an instrument of someone's brutal revenge.
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