Customer Review: If you are looking for the musical, this is not it. If you want to enhance your understanding of the story behind the musical, watch this movie. I found it really helped me understand the characters better ... Read More
Customer Review: This movie is fantastic, and Julia Ormond in it is excellent. The symbolism and plot are pretty tricky to grasp at times, and I'd say the movie stays with you over time, and if you see it again, you see it with ... Read More
Customer Review: It is normally believed that if a prisoner starts accepting ideas and principles of his captors (think Patty Hearst) they suffer from Stockholm syndrom. But what happens when a prison guard starts to see truth in the words and actions ... Read More
Customer Review: I really enjoy reading Isabel Allende in Spanish as well as in English translation. So I thought I would look at this movie of her first novel. It did not, unfortunately, captivate me.
It has strange and interesting casting. This is a ... Read More
Customer Review: I was so looking forward to watching this movie. I loved the book and have read it many times over the years, but the movie was made when I was really young so I never had a chance to pick it up until recently I found the VHS version in my local library. ... Read More
Customer Review: Altzheimers...whew, this is an accurate depiction of succumbing to its debilitating grip over mental and physical processes. In fact, I suspect that this film will become the definitive take on the subject, short of actual documentation; the acting from the leads is ... Read More
Customer Review: "Pelle the Conqeror" won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language film back in 1988 and that, for me, is generally a category that warrents a look. Pelle did not fail me because it is an outstanding movie. It's a sort of "Giants in the Earth" with a shorter emigration trip. A man ... Read More
Customer Review: Aidan Quinn is great as a washed out attorney that now sells death row inmate letters to the media. He corresponds with inmates to get their last letter to sell for a great deal of money. When he meets a woman on death row, played by Connie Nielsen, his attitude changes and we see there is more to ... Read More
Customer Review: I was so looking forward to watching this movie. I loved the book and have read it many times over the years, but the movie was made when I was really young so I never had a chance to pick it up until recently I found the VHS version in my local library. It ended up being a huge disappointment! By the time I ... Read More
