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Saying Goodbye

2009-07-26T14:53:00.001-07:00

It is with deep regret that we inform the readers of the blog that Mark Yannone died on 17 July 2009. Pursuant to his wishes, there will be no memorial or service. Anyone wishing to send letters to the family may send them via email to cherieyannone@aol.com. All notes to the family will be delivered directly.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2009-06-28T22:33:00.001-07:00

A Jack Nicholson classic.

Doubt

2009-04-19T07:23:00.005-07:00

by Craig J. Cantoni

Outstanding. Each scene is a masterpiece. The one of the black mother played by Viola Davis is one of the best in movie history. The movie should have won Best Picture. As a special treat, it brought back memories of my Catholic elementary school days. Even the special features on the DVD are fascinating, especially the interviews with real nuns.

Doubt (trailer)

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Idiocracy

2009-03-08T11:09:00.008-07:00

by Mark Yannone

This is one of those rare movies for which the review should be limited to, "Don't talk about it. Just watch it. Then buy it, because you will want to see it again and again. You will show it at family gatherings, at parties, or maybe just when it's too cold or wet to go out." I'm on my ~~17th~~ 19th viewing at this point and ready to watch it again. It should have been the first movie added to this site.

Idiocracy (trailer)

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Event Horizon

2009-03-08T11:08:00.003-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Well, I watched it, and it was scary, but it wasn't as good as it needed to be. I found that I didn't really care about the characters, and that's the kiss of death.

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Executive Action

2009-02-05T06:04:00.004-07:00

by Mark Yannone

This story of a plot to kill President John F. Kennedy uses actual footage of the day and does a better job of representing reality than the official story. Released in 1973, the movie contains a reference to reducing the world's population to 550 million. In 1979 the Georgia Guidestones were commissioned. One of the ten commandments inscribed in eight languages is to maintain the earth's population below 500 million.

Welcome to the New World Order

Katyn

2009-01-25T21:47:00.012-07:00

Katyn: The Story Hollywood Won't Tell

by Henry Makow PhD

Defiance, yet another movie about Jewish victimhood and heroism opened in 1800 US theaters last week.

This story of Jewish partisans fighting Nazis adds to a growing Holocaust film genre that includes Sophie's Choice, Shindler's List, and The Piano.

But one incredible Jewish story of genocide continues to elude Hollywood. This is the execution of 20,000 Polish Officer POWs (devout Roman Catholics who represented much of the Polish elite) by the Bolshevik Jewish-led NKVD in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Why has Hollywood ignored this story? My opinion is that, with six degrees of separation, Hollywood (and indeed America) is ultimately run by the spiritual descendants of these murderers.

Thus we are brainwashed to ignore genocides that don't fit the Nazi-Jew paradigm. Movies are essential to this programming. Part of an ongoing psychological war on the Christian European majority, we are made to identify with minorities. If we object, we are counted as Nazis. I will expand later when I briefly review Hollywood's current fare.

Andrej Wajda, 82, Poland's most celebrated film director, lost his father at Katyn. In 2008, Wajda made a movie about this genocide and its effect on the victims' families. Financed by Polish TV, the film, Katyn, was a major artistic and commercial success in Poland. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2008 but still has not found wide distribution outside Poland.

It didn't win the Oscar. The award went to a Jewish Holocaust movie, The Counterfeiters, a "true story" from Germany. It described the moral dilemma faced by a Jewish master-counterfeiter forced to forge British and US currency. ("Should I sabotage this process?") I saw this movie. It is an enjoyable piece of propaganda which helps the audience identify with Jews. In real life, I doubt if the hero had any such moral qualms. Even in the film, he filled his own pockets.

KATYN

Here is the trailer for Katyn. I haven't seen the movie but I did stumble across information that illustrates why this is the stuff of which epics are made.

Katyn (trailer)

First, some background from Wikipedia: "Since Poland's conscription system required every nonexempt university graduate to become a reserve officer, the Soviets were able to round up much of the Polish intelligentsia. Those who died at Katyn included an admiral, two generals, 24 colonels, 79 lieutenant colonels, 258 majors, 654 captains, 17 naval captains, 3,420 NCOs, seven chaplains, three landowners, a prince, 43 officials, 85 privates, and 131 refugees. Also among the dead were 20 university professors; 300 physicians; several hundred lawyers, engineers, and teachers; and more than 100 writers and journalists, as well as about 200 pilots. In all, the NKVD executed almost half the Polish officer corps."

In 1945, Maurice Shainberg was the Assistant to KGB Colonel Grigory Zaitzev, who was the Commandant of the main Katyn work camp. In his book, Breaking from the KGB, (1986), Shainberg, a Polish Jew, tells how he discovered Zaitzev's Katyn diary in the safe. Shainberg had misgivings about Communism and identified with his fellow Poles. He took great personal risks to copy sections of the diary. The Zaitzev Diary was dynamite because the Soviets always claimed the Nazis had committed the war crime.

The diary appears authentic except for one major discrepancy. Zaitzev pretends the slaughter was necessitated by lack of transport to remove the prisoners in advance of the Nazi onslaught in June 1941. In fact, Stalin and Beria gave the order to murder the Poles in early March, and the executions took place in April and May 1940. Only 4250 were actually shot in Katyn forest. The remainder were executed in prisons elsewhere. Many were taken out in barges on the White Sea and drowned.

Otherwise, the diary describes how the Soviets tried to indoctrinate and intimidate the Poles into betraying their culture and their country (as the Western-elite has done today), by forming a puppet class in a future Soviet-dominated Poland. The Poles refused, and that is the reason they were slaughtered.

THE ZAITZEV DIARY

When Zaitzev got his assignment, he was warned that the Poles were all "educated religious fanatics" always singing patriotic songs and hymns with their chaplain. Zaitzev was confident he could teach them to "pray to a new God."

The prisoners worked cutting trees from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the evening they boycotted the indoctrination sessions. They had no desire to assist in building the future Soviet Poland.

One officer explained: "As a Pole I know my nation. None of us have the desire to dictate to other people, and we don't want other people to dictate to us. We are neither a Fascist or a Communist nation, but a devoutly Catholic one."

Once during a speech, the Polish Army Chaplain Jozwiak lifted up the crucifix he wore and began to chant a prayer. The prisoners followed suit. That night, Jozwiak was taken to the Interrogation Chamber.

"The use of electrical currents on Father Jozwiak's eyes and body didn't help. Nor was the Chinese method successful, where the prisoner was stripped from the waist down and forced to sit over an open cage of starving rats. We couldn't allow the priest to go back to the other prisoners in the condition he was left in, so we finished him off." (Shainberg, p. 165)

The NKVD thought the priest's example would have a sobering effect on the POWs but instead they curtailed their work. The NKVD retaliated by decreasing rations which made the prisoners too weak to work. When the NKVD started shooting prisoners who didn't work, the others turned on the guards with their axes, and 192 Poles were shot.

Now the Poles were more defiant than ever. When a collaborator lectured to them, they began to chant a prayer: "We Polish soldiers and prisoners of the Soviets have been brought here to foreign lands to die. We beg of you, Mother of God, to take care of our nation ... Save us from German and Soviet imprisonment. We are offering ourselves as a sacrifice for the independence of our fatherland ..."

Of course this is the kind of self-sacrifice and patriotism that our Masters don't want us to see.

"Our task was impossible," Zaitzev wrote. "People who have never met these Poles will not understand how difficult it was to change their attitude toward us. No beating or abuse would make them stop their singing. They are a hard and proud people. Every day they get physically weaker but their anger and hatred increased."

Polish historian Krzystztof Siwek tells me that Poland has declared April 13 a National Day of Rememberance of the Katyn martyrs. "A joint Polish-Russian commission was formed to develop an official position of both sides. Most of controversies remain unresolved. Russians fear that admitting fully to the crime against humanity would allow the victims' families to demand compensations and other penalties as in the case of Germany."

MOVIES AS PROPAGANDA

The goal of Illuminati Jewish bankers and their Masonic gentile collaborators is to meld the world's population into a single servant class in a "New World Order." This requires the destruction of the four legs of human identity: race, religion, nation, and family.

The Illuminati bankers established the USSR as a precursor to the New World Order. The execution of the Polish elite was necessary to the long-term plan. The Nazis, also an Illuminati Jewish creation, treated Polish and other national elites in a similar fashion.

The Illuminati are Luciferian. They wish to substitute their rule for God's natural and spiritual (moral) order. They need to destroy the Western European Christian heterosexual middle class to fulfill their agenda. Culture is a function of money, and the Illuminati control credit. Thus our culture maintains a conspiracy of silence about the gradual subversion of Western Civilization by its own traitorous elite.

Instead the focus, in movies for example, is on minorities. Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is about a redneck who learns to love Asian immigrants kids. Oscar-nominated Slumdog Millionaire is about Bombay street kids. Sean Penn's Milk is about a crusader for homosexual rights. Oscar-nominated The Reader combines pedophilia and German guilt for the Holocaust. Revolutionary Road presents a negative view of marriage and the 1950s, a period when the nuclear family recovered. (I liked this movie, but not the message.) Doubt is about homosexuality in the Catholic Church. French Best Foreign Language nominee The Class is about immigrant youths and how lovable they are. And on it goes -- movies are propaganda for the Illuminati agenda.

When the movie is about white Americans, as in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, no collective identity can be upheld, no universals revealed. Life must be literally turned upside down, in this case reversed from old to young, before it has any interest for the screenwriter, Eric Roth. This diverting but ultimately vacuous movie is a triumph of make-up. It has nothing important to say to Americans at this critical moment.

So there should be no surprise that a film about Christian martyrs and patriots coming from an anachronism called a nation like Poland will be quietly swept under the carpet by Hollywood.

Heaven forbid that the sheep figure out that the same fate may await them.

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See also: 'Art' Films Pack Ideological Sucker Punch

See also: Was the Polish Holocaust Also a Hoax?

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Ghost Town

2009-01-16T02:34:00.005-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Ricky Gervais does a good job with a rather thin plot

Ghost Town (trailer)

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Road to Perdition

2009-01-14T01:35:00.005-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Picture The Godfather without the accents, motivation, music, and culture. Essentially, Tom Hanks and Paul Newman take turns making dead bodies out of weak characters, then the movie throws a bone to the anti-gun lunatics at the end. It's moving because a boy is robbed of his childhood and his entire family.

Road to Perdition (trailer)

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Yellowstone Eruption

2009-01-02T09:13:00.008-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Ahhh ... something to look forward to. So far it's just a documentary, but it promises to show up on the evening news one day -- at least until the lights go out ... for the last time.

History Channel Mega Disasters - Yellowstone Eruption

See also: Yellowstone Web cam

Changeling

2008-11-30T08:40:00.007-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

Holy Christ. Well, this is a movie about how the system manipulates everything. It is awful in a few places but needs to be seen. It was directed by Clint Eastwood, and as far as I know, it was apparently based upon a true story that happened in the 1920s. This is what was going on in Sunland before they suddenly shut it down, leaving food and utensils on the dining tables. No one knows exactly where the "committed" were sent. I have seen "shock therapy" when I worked in the "medical" arena, and it is brutal and as shown. My aunt was forced to have it when she had post-partum depression, in order to force her to "snap out of it." Once you're in the system, the system can and will do anything it wants to you because you lose all of your rights as a human being, and "they" take over.

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21

2008-11-26T03:10:00.005-07:00

by Mark Yannone

It's not illegal to earn millions in a casino by counting cards at a Blackjack table, and before you know it these MIT students are on a first-name basis with the casino staffs in Las Vegas.

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Fugitive Pieces

2008-11-23T04:04:00.004-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Fugitive Pieces is a story of love, made tragic by Hitler's Nazis, made poignant by the passage of time, and made sublime by the best of the human spirit.

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Black Hawk Down

2008-11-18T04:25:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Most people will like the movie. I consider it insanity in uniform.

Black Hawk Down (trailer)

Black Hawk Down - The True Story

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Kate and Leopold

2008-11-16T05:38:00.009-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Meg Ryan, an advertising account executive in modern Manhattan, is romanced by Hugh Jackman, a local duke on the verge of marriage who visits from 1876 via a time portal at the Brooklyn Bridge. I suspect that a lot of great material didn't make the final cut. This two-hour romantic sci-fi fantasy comedy could easily have been twice as long, or longer. I give it a three-tissue rating.

Kate and Leopold - Trailer | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

Kate and Leopold (trailer)

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Anger Management

2008-10-20T02:35:00.007-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, and Marisa Tomei are exquisite in this romantic comedy.

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Half-Baked

2008-09-29T05:12:00.010-07:00

by Mark Yannone

A classic -- in the same class as Idiocracy (almost).

Half Baked - Magic Weed

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Taken

2008-09-21T07:15:00.007-07:00

by Mark Yannone

This is a fast-moving, high-tension, well-acted story that pits a one-man army against a criminal underworld so wretched it could only live in France. Zoot alors!

Taken (trailer)

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When Nietzsche Wept

2008-09-16T13:09:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Few have the freedom and inclination to pursue introspection to the degree that Viennese doctor Josef Breuer and German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche pursue theirs. In a secret scheme concocted to rescue one, they struggle to help themselves survive spurned love and midlife crisis, and both uncover vital meaning in their luxurious, yet shallow, lives. Highly recommended for anyone who has ever shed an adult tear -- or needs to.

When Nietzsche Wept (trailer)

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Seinfeld - How It Began

2008-09-04T12:01:00.004-07:00

by Mark Yannone

In describing the smash hit that was Seinfeld, the first word that comes to mind is "improbable." It beat the odds and exceeded expectations every step of the way as the essential components of this masterpiece fell perfectly into place. Here are vivid lessons in the fallibility of experts and the power of talent and good decisions.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

2008-08-28T03:57:00.009-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Some say Osama bin Laden was killed. Some laugh at the question or point to the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan. But when Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) took up the challenge of finding Osama and followed his best leads, he wound up in front of an old roadside sign in Pakistan that read, "ATTENTION ENTRY OF FOREIGNERS IS PROHIBITED BEYOND THIS POINT." That seemed to be all the protection that Osama bin Laden needed, because Morgan Spurlock gave up all hope of collecting a $25 million reward, turned around, and went home. But what he found instead was much more important.

Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?

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Believe in Me

2008-08-23T02:47:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

You don't have to like basketball, sports, or Oklahoma to love this movie. You just have to appreciate the power of the human spirit to conquer what is frequently revered: ignorance, narrow-mindedness, stereotyping, and mean sons of bitches. (5 tissues)

Believe in Me (trailer)

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Finding Neverland

2008-08-16T02:37:00.008-07:00

by Mark Yannone

How pleasantly surprising that a story of a timeless struggle against our own selves should at once be so touching, entertaining, and instructive. Here we are given a chance to recognize some of the critical flaws within us all, impediments to greatness and beauty that we create where none is called for. Finding Neverland is a wonderful love story -- real, innocent love.

Finding Neverland (trailer)

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The Family Stone

2008-08-14T04:42:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

A mismatched couple spend Christmas with his ill-mannered family. The complex dynamics allow the characters to reap life's lessons, as you might expect, and you'll be reaching for tissues before it's over.

The Family Stone (trailer)

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Office Space

2008-07-31T03:58:00.010-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Everyone who has ever worked in an office will recognize much of this -- if not every single, solitary, miserable scene. It's a great movie, destined to become one of the classics of our culture. If not for experiences like those portrayed in this movie, Tibet would have fewer monks.

Office Space

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Numb

2008-07-19T04:26:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Increasing numbers of overmedicated Americans will be able to relate to being afflicted with depersonalization and being on a first-name basis with their pharmacists. So take your meds, kick back, and wallow with our amusing but pathetic hero in the modern matrix of sex, love, drugs, death, lunch, and never-ending introspection. Sure, Numb sounds shallow and pointless. What could be bettah?

Numb (trailer)

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Felon

2008-07-18T21:58:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Felon is ideal for anyone who will ever hope to serve the cause of justice on a grand jury or a trial jury. Remember, you are the master. The prosecutor and the judge derive their power from you. It's not the other way around, as the government would have you believe. When you serve on a jury, remember this movie. Don't destroy innocent lives.

Felon (trailer)

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Starting Out in the Evening

2008-03-09T03:08:00.011-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Sensitive, tender, poignant, searching, introspective, and painful relationships past and present are evoked and evolve as pushy, grateful graduate student, Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose), completes her master's thesis on the literary works of the central character, Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella). On a canvas of tragedy and the inevitability of death appear sketches of hope, love, lust, and even a smudge of glee, all made possible by the energy of the women working their womanly magic on their men. This is a well-performed tale of growth that is never too late, even among those who are Starting Out in the Evening of their lives. Fabulous!

Starting Out in the Evening (trailer)

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There Will Be Blood

2008-03-08T15:00:00.017-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

There Will Be Blood is about an oilman, and it's absolutely awful. The acting is awful, the plot is stoopid, there is annoying, deranged music throughout, it had parts in it that could have been left out, and parts of it are so dark you can't even see what's happening. Unbelievable. This Academy Award winner was among the worst f***ing movies I have ever seen, and I was so pissed off by the end at the sheer violence and cruelty, it nearly motivated me to enlist in the army in order to purge this anger from my system by taking it out on civilians. Perhaps this was the intention of this miscreation from Hollywood. (Consider this to be just as much a warning as a review.) If you need to punish yourself or someone near and dear to you, then buy it.

There Will Be Blood (trailer)

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Freedom Writers

2008-02-26T23:55:00.006-07:00

by Mark Yannone

Not knowing what to expect as I began watching this movie, I was ready to reject it almost immediately because of the violence shown in the opening scenes. That would have been a big mistake. This 2007 film about curing violence, prejudice, and profound ignorance is a timeless gem that will touch everyone. Freedom Writers is highly recommended.

Freedom Writers (trailer)

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White Dog

2008-01-24T16:49:00.005-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

If you would like to see perhaps one of the worst movies ever made, complete with the worst acting I've ever seen and stoopidity bar none, then be sure to watch White Dog. All of the people in the movie should have been eaten by the dog, who was the only decent actor, although they've got the dog's face pinned back to make him look vicious. Actors include Kristy McNichol and Burl Ives. McNichol is wearing a white see-thru tee-shirt without a bra to cover the perky minnies they thought might redeem this mess, which don't give her no points from moi. Bottom line: If I had five thumbs, I'd give it five thumbs down. Lucky for you, it's expensive and not always easy to buy.

White Dog (trailer)

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About Schmidt

2007-12-11T02:53:00.006-07:00

by Ian J. Peters

Jack Nickleson's character in About Schmidt gives a wedding day, father-of-the-bride speech. He compliments one of the guests by stating that he could tell that he was a very deep thinking soul. The guest was a humanoid, barely evolved out of the granite state, who had not uttered so much as a grunt in the whole movie. He just sat there in each of his scenes, in one of the most pristine states of stupor I have ever witnessed in the film medium. His head was like a pile of pizza dough sitting on the counter, waiting for the cook to get back from answering the phone. It was a brilliant performance.

About Schmidt (trailer)

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Listen: Beloved Wife, sung by Natalie Merchant

A Song For Martin

2007-12-04T13:33:00.003-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

I've attempted to watch A Song For Martin four times now, but it's just too dull and depressing. Maybe if it were even more depressing, it would be more interesting. Maybe the only way to watch it is to buy it.

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August Rush

2007-12-04T01:35:00.003-07:00

by Mark Yannone

If August Rush doesn't kill you, you're already dead.

August Rush (trailer)

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Hollywoodland

2007-12-03T22:37:00.006-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

I thought Hollywoodland was pretty good. It's about the investigation of George Reeves' death (Superman). There are a lot of questions still remaining. I was just like the kids depicted in this movie--when Superman came on, on Friday nights, I dropped everything and was there. He was like a modern day Jesus fucking Christ for me and every kid I knew. I was also devastated when I learned of his death. My father told me he had jumped off a building without his cape. My mother was horrified upon hearing this, so he then told me Jesus Christ, Superman had been shot.

Hollywoodland (trailer)

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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

2007-11-15T15:56:00.005-07:00

by Eve Albee

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn is not a bad movie--no flying saucers, aliens, or slime. He has the system under control until the big dogs try to take his land and mess with his life. He ends up unraveling everybody single-handedly.

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My Life Without Me

2007-08-09T07:14:00.006-07:00

by Mary Sparrowdancer

I suffered through My Life Without Me, set in a marginal-working-class Canada just before the snows of winter. A young woman with two kids and a devoted husband discovers she has inoperable cancer and makes a list of what she wants to do with her remaining eight weeks. Dreary beyond belief. So realistic as to make it unwatchable. Debbie Harry plays her mom and does a good job. Interesting only because it's Debbie Harry. If you feel you must, then buy it.

My Life Without Me (trailer)

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The Pursuit of Happyness

2007-08-09T07:12:00.005-07:00

by Ian J. Peters

The Pursuit of Happyness was a good movie, but it was a serious uphill climb for the first hour and forty minutes. For the ten following that, we rounded the crest and then, exhausted, tongue hanging out down to our dusty, tear-stained shoe remnants, a crescendo was at last permitted, like an eighty-year-old priest allowing himself his first woman as a reward for a lifetime of celibacy. Just too much of a workout. Must have been that Italian director's doing.

The Pursuit of Happyness (trailer)

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