Musicals & Music Films > Huston, John Musicals & Music Films

the sun will comeout tomorrow

Advantages: great songs great acting great films
Disadvantages: none

...I even named my daughter Annie (I know that's quite sad), I first saw this film when I was about 4 or 5 and I loved it, I still love it. The musical was based on Harold Gray's Little Orphan Annie comic strip. Annie first opened on Broadway in April, 1977, running for almost 2,500 performances - making it one the longest running musicals of the 1970s. The following year it opened at the Victoria Palace in London, where it enjoyed another successful ...
...Director- John Huston Plot Annie is set Manhattan in the middle of the Great Depression. Annie was found wrapped in newspaper on the doorstep of an orphanage when she was a baby. Spends the next 11 years living under the rules of the alcoholic, virgin, narcissist Miss Hannigan, hoping that her real mother will one day come and collect her. Working day and nigh cleaning, cooking and looking after the home to escape miss Hannigan's beatings Annie ...

tinac37 11.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Annie / Oliver (Box Set) (DVD)

Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, you're...

Advantages: Keeps small children occupied
Disadvantages: Will drive you crazy very quickly

Annie – Fit for Viewing by Persons Generally Excruciating, is one word which comes to mind, when thinking of how to sum up Annie the Musical. Raucous, grating and harsh, could describe the songs. Contrived, implausible and sudsy, the plot. However, I’ve watched this DVD probably getting on for 100 times as it is a firm favourite with my daughter, who is 3, which just goes to prove that genetics don’t always work. I saw Annie the musical as a stage ...
...decides that a DVD of Annie the Musical will be an ideal present for my daughter – since I was such a fan myself! My instinct is to inwardly groan – although I can’t really remember the story at all, there is something about small red-haired American brats that does not call out to me “quality movie”. I remove the cellophane packaging with a heavy heart. There are two possible outcomes – either my daughter will love it, and we will watch it endlessly ...

Tricksty 25.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Annie (DVD)

"Consider This.... I'll Love Ya, Tomorrah"

Advantages: 2 great films in a box, at less than the price of one DVD
Disadvantages: None, unless musicals ain't your thing.

Over Christmas my daughter really enjoyed watching a couple of musicals on T.V. I also loved musicals as a child, and this prompted a visit to my mothers to raid the old forgotten VHS box. Unfortunately twenty odd years of being played to death and then neglected hadn't been kind, and our home recorded videos were unwatchable. Spurred on by the notion of a trip down memory lane, and a new convert to enjoy these much loved films with, I headed off ...
...of Annie and Oliver! Annie Based on the Broadway musical of the same name, this DVD is a special anniversary edition of the 1981 film starring Aileen quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnett. The movie opens in a New York orphanage during the depression, with 10 year old Annie wistfully hoping that her parents, who abandoned her as a child, will some day come to collect her with the other half of the locket that was left as their only reminder. ...

Rhiana 27.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Oliver!/Annie (Deluxe Edition) (Box Set) (DVD)

Moulin rouge is a musical admirers dream

Advantages: Great chemistry between main characters ,feel good film .
Disadvantages: The singing throughout the film can get a bit tiresome

In my opinion you must see the film if you like musicals, otherwise you might find the singing a bit off putting .At times the siniging can seem a bit over the top but in general this is what makes the film interesting.It is worth watching just to see the on screen chemistry between Ewan Mcgregor and Nicole Kidman they are a great pairing and seem to have good on screen presence allowing you to follow the romantic tale which is played out . The ...

pepsi27 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

I'll watch this some more!

Advantages: great family film
Disadvantages: none

...remember loving the musical film Oliver! as a child and singing and dancing along to so many of the wonderful songs that accompanied the story. I was also lucky to see the West End production many years ago, long before Andrew Lloyd Webber took an interest with his search for a Nancy and an Oliver in the great series ‘I’d do Anything’. My daughters loved watching the TV shows and started picking up the words to some of the songs. Therefore when I ...
...in our big armchair watching Oliver! Oliver! (made in 1968)is based on the classic novel of Oliver Twist that was written by Charles Dickens. It tells the story of a poor workhouse boy who had the audacity to ask for more of the disgusting gruel that was served to all the boys daily while the workhouse governors were fed roast dinners. As a consequence Oliver is sold to the local undertaker where he is teased about his dead mother. Feeling desperate, ...

kingfisher111 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Oliver! (DVD)