Word: angela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...film runs glumly along, episode after episode, with no plot whatsoever. Frank's siblings die at the rate of about one every ten minutes, but the only emotion these deaths manage to evoke is indifference. Along the way the film manages to completely squander Emily Watson as Angela. She makes a valiant effort to portray Angela as a tough woman who's not too proud to beg for her children, but wasted are her sharp, delicate eyes and wonderfully expressive mouth. In fact, the occasional, accidental spurts of beautiful acting she is allowed only serve to frustrate the viewer even...
...Angela herself would have said, this is a "worthless feck" of a movie...
...this contest won't be a patriotic rivalry for everyone on the Harvard team. Instead, it will be a reunion for sophomore defenseman Angela Ruggiero, who has a gold medal as a member of the 1998 U.S. Olympic Team. That year, Ruggiero was wearing stars and stripes when the National Team went on an exhibition tour against college teams...
...Starring Angela Hur '02, June...