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Light of Day
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Lonely Are the Brave
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Grace & Glorie
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The Notebook
»rank: 855
0ur opinion: :When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered species in Hollywood, a movie like The Notebook can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks novel has much ...
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Tempest (1982)
»rank: 8624
0ur opinion: essential video:A burnt-out architect (the peerlessly unhinged John Cassavetes) tries to get away from it all on a seemingly idyllic Greek isle in this extremely loose-limbed adaptation of Shakespeare's play. This pleasantly rambling, exquisitely lit portrayal of the middle-aged-crazies is rather broad even by writer-director Paul Mazursky's estimable standards, but Cassavetes's wholly unpredictable performance keeps the considerable preciousness from ever getting too thick. (He's aided by a uniformly wonderful cast, including Gena Rowlands, ...
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The Brink's Job
»rank: 7784
0ur opinion: essential video:A burnt-out architect (the peerlessly unhinged John Cassavetes) tries to get away from it all on a seemingly idyllic Greek isle in this extremely loose-limbed adaptation of Shakespeare's play. This pleasantly rambling, exquisitely lit portrayal of the middle-aged-crazies is rather broad even by writer-director Paul Mazursky's estimable standards, but Cassavetes's wholly unpredictable performance keeps the considerable preciousness from ever getting too thick. (He's aided by a uniformly wonderful cast, including Gena Rowlands, ...
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Columbo Collector's Edition: Playback
»rank: 13628
0ur opinion: :Airdate March 3, 1975.. Described by Peter Falk as one of his favorite episodes, Playback Guest Stars 0skar Werner and Gena Rowlands
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Hope Floats
»rank: 9799
0ur opinion: :Cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock is a homemaker who learns that her husband and best friend are having an affair. The so-called best friend reveals this information on a national chat show, leaving Bullock devastated and disgraced. Heading back to her small hometown in Texas, she seeks refuge with her eccentric mother. Laconic Harry Connick Jr., a former high-school classmate, attempts to bring Bullock out of her depression and win her heart. He has, you see, ...
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Another Woman
»rank: 8587
0ur opinion: :This underrated film is by far Woody Allen's most satisfying l-wish-l-were-lngmar Bergman movie, and in its elegantly constrained fashion it teems with imagination--not to mention a glorious cast. Gena Rowlands plays a philosophy professor who, subletting an apartment as a writing office, finds that the confidences murmured to her psychiatrist neighbor are audible through the air vents. ln particular, the fears and desperation of a younger, very pregnant woman (Mia Farrow) trigger a stream ...
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A Child Is Waiting
»rank: 11549
0ur opinion: :This 1963 film, directed by John Cassavetes, features Judy Garland's last dramatic performance. She plays a teacher at an institution for the retarded who ultimately can't contain her own urge to help, to the detriment of her young charges. Burt Lancaster gives a strong performance as the head of the institution, trying to balance fiscal responsibility and administrative duties with a caring nature. But it's a constant struggle between the urge to do the ...
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