Word: annabella
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connection with the now questionable claim that Feinstein employed an illegal alien in the early 1980s. The Huffington charges continued even though the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service admitted that it was mistaken in confirming a news report about the status of Feinstein's employee. Meanwhile, the housekeeper, Annabella Paiz, told The Associated Press that she was legal during her Feinstein stint. The allegations about Feinstein came a week after Huffington admitted that he employed an illegal alien as a nanny from 1989 to 1993, a revelation that has helped boost Feinstein's struggling re-election...
...practical considerations are of no account in movies like this, which never bear the slightest resemblance to any known reality. Ostensibly this one is about Jack (Gary Oldman), a rogue cop with a nice wife (Annabella Sciorra), an eager mistress (Juliette Lewis) and a profitable sideline in helping the Mafia locate apostates who think they've found safety in the witness- protection program. But the Mafia don (a wildly miscast Roy Scheider) has given Jack a sort of promotion: he's entrusted with actually putting the hit on Mona, who, naturally, deploys all her sexual cunning to evade her fate...
...film's first half we watch Jack volley between his inexplicably loyal wife Natalie (Annabella Sciorra) and his submissive moll Sheri (Juliette Lewis), all the while wrestling with his conscience. Because the formula would not be complete without a furtive villain force, Medak is compelled to introduce Russian mobster Mona Demarkov (Lena Olin) into Jack's dysfunctional life. Fueled by lust and fear, Jack is either chasing or being chased by this femme fatale from hell...
...Wonderful" Matt Dillon plays Gus, a New York City electrical worker with Con Edison, and Annabella Sciorra plays his ex-wife Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal...
Several of the characters are playedconvincingly by the able cast. Annabella Sciorrabrings the same warmth and sweetness to Lee thatshe has to past roles, and Matt Dillon gives afine performance in what is one of his first trueleading roles. Mary Louise Parker also gives agood turn as Gus' wistful and weepy girlfriend,who almost makes their relationship work. VincentD'Onofrio is especially good as Lee's nearlysuccessful match. Maybe Lee gives up because ofhis oh-so-romantic croons like, "I'm completelygaga over you." The film wastes so much time ongimmicky matchmaking and extraneous scenes thateven the inevitable finale seems...