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problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

except that they happen to live very close to one another in the same building and they are thrown together for a simple reason, t...

humans cannot readily draw on the human collective conscious, or the knowledge that exists in the universe, they had a glimpse of ...

72). Morrow and the two children were killed instantly. While tighter safety precautions were immediately instituted by the film i...

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

angles that one would not normally expect, such as shooting through water. There is an underwater shot of blood slowly spreading a...

she is thinking or what has occurred. Surrounded by a halo of light, Shermans face is a "shadowed" mask and it is this melodramati...

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

- but his dominating persona was not very favorable to colleagues (though he could be friendly and helpful on certain occasions) (...

military prestige and marriage to a well-to-do Caucasian, was little more than a savage who was ultimately enslaved by primal pass...

large urban environment, humanity is even more vulnerable to the cruel and capricious winds of fate than at any other time in hist...

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

legacy of screwball comedy. Both Ninotchka and Roman Holiday encompass themes that are more sophisticated than the typical screwb...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

style, but did not really have the time to focus on its development until he suffered from a back injury and spent numerous months...

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

America, the concept of the antihero was revised to better reflect the attitudes of its citizens, and was defined to be an individ...

Laura Mulveys book, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, states "Film reflects, reveals and even plays on the straight, socially ...

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

dime to look like an model. In fact, in reality, it was not too long ago when it was discovered that models were selling their egg...

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...