Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids movie!" my teenage brother suddenly realized as we walked into a theater full of moms with their three-year-olds. Oops, I guess I forgot to mention that part, but I thought he would have figured it out from the title...
Unlike my teenage brother, I'm not against kids' movies. Some, like The Little Mermaid, are entertaining and truly meaningful. Just because a movie is made for young children doesn't mean it has to be boring or too shallow for adults. I even said to my brother, "Who knows? Maybe you'll end up liking it." He smirched, "I doubt...
...whose speed and finesse still give defenders the shakes. As the team's best known player--a distaff version of Michael Jordan--she had the burden of not only scoring goals but also being Miss Publicity. A self-described emotional child from a military family who lost an older brother to a rare blood disease (and still wears his initials on her soccer shoes), Hamm found the soccer field a perfect outlet for her inner fire. She's been on the national team since...
...1920s, can't quite make up its mind on that matter. Or what it thinks of its central figure, Edward (Colin Firth), an impractical inventor trying to make a go of moss farming. He is at once pious and lustful (his determined eye is cast at his brother-in-law's pretty French fiance), a good father to his numerous brood, yet sometimes abrupt and heedless of them. He's a stormy character, all right, but an unfocused one, and this well-cast adaptation of a memoir by a British TV executive is disjointed, only queasily humorous and too casual...
...their characters built? I was a tomboy, and my father spent countless hours playing catch with me. But he never expected that there would be organized softball for girls. Of course, there was a part of him that overworried about my infrastructure. Girls have babies, after all! When my brother got a detached retina playing tackle, my parents didn't blanch. One day I came home with a bloody nose, and I thought my father was going to pass...