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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 ...

times appears to be a prune. In one memorable scene, as the plot thickens, George is standing in the middle of a waving...

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...

the ordinary man can screw those in authority then he should do it. One of the themes of Double Indemnity is shown in that it is...

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...

three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. William Wyler was chosen as director, and an award-winning cast was assembled. It should be no...

won in 1998. While "Geris Game" was clearly an innovative technical film, it did not win this award based on this aspect alone. Wh...

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

with pleasure, which is why they "love the life of enjoyment" (Aristotle). Considering this stance, the next development in the m...

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

(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...

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...

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

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

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...

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) (...

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 ...

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 ...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

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

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...