Advantages: It ends, Marky Mark briefly gets his tits out Disadvantages: Everything else imaginable
...to a few unpleasant surprises. The apartment that she shares with her husband has been completely stripped, and there is no sign of any of her clothes or other possessions. Waiting in the apartment is a female police officer, who quickly escorts her to the police station to advise her that her husband has been found dead. A brief identification process formally confirms this to be the case, and Reggie suddenly finds herself homeless, single and very ... ...a secret life.
Enlisting the aid of a young American man (Lewis) that she met whilst on holiday, she sets about trying to discover what happened to her husband. She secretly meets an employee of the American Embassy and is shocked to discover that her husband had been working covertly for the Americans. It transpires that he was part of a special mission involving a group of other individuals, during which a large amount of money was misappropriated. ...
LostWitness 11.06.2003
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Advantages: gripping film Disadvantages: slightly confusing
...was that drew me to the film 'The Truth about Charlie'. On the cover of the DVD it was described as gripping and also as an engrossing saga of sex lies and espionage. I usually enjoy a good thriller so I thought that I would give it a go especially as it was directed by Jonathan Demme who also directed The Silence of the Lambs. There was also something quite intriguing about the title as well. I didn't think that the title was that inspired at first ... ...in the word Charlie were a different colour to the rest, and were actually the same colour as the word 'truth'. This meant that I was drawn to the two words - truth and lie - which I thought was rather clever. There is an awful lot that happens in this film and you do have to concentrate quite a bit as you are watching. At the start, Regina Lambert (Thandie Newson) returns home to Paris after holidaying in the Caribbean to discover that her husband ...
kingfisher111 01.11.2009
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