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Combining the eerily insightful voice-overs in the vein of 1999??s head-spinning “Fight Club” and the sardonic conversations of “Office Space,” “waydowntown” caricaturizes the monotony of the nine-to-five desk job and the homogenization of today’s modern urban life...
Mallozzi’s tumultuous struggle to resolve ethno-cultural identity was less easily resolved, but she used her personal quest for self-understanding as the fuel for her first major documentary, 1999??s critically-acclaimed Once Removed. The film followed Mallozzi as she made her first journey to Communist China in order to learn about her family’s experiences during the Cultural Revolution...
...powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999??s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...
...espoused by the star, who has long used his celebrity as a platform to highlight issues of social justice. Robbins has written and directed films including 1995’s Dead Man Walking, about a nun’s efforts to help a convicted killer on death row, and 1999??s Cradle Will Rock, a vivid portrayal of leftist stagecraft in the Great Depression...
...acclaim for his roles in 1992’s The Player, 1990’s Jacob’s Ladder, 1990’s Cadillac Man, and for his break-out performance in 1988’s Bull Durham. Real cinema buffs also recognize Robbins for his roles in 1999??s Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 2000’s High Fidelity, 1986’s Top Gun, and the so-bad-it’s-good 1986 Howard the Duck...