Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't, it won't be for want of conniving. The Rugrats Movie, in which Tommy Pickles finally gets a little brother (Dylan--"Dil"--Pickles) and goes on an arduous adventure with his pals Chuckie, Lil and Phil, has been focus-grouped and marketed to contain hooks for consumers of all ages; you need only be old enough to shout, "Mommy, I gotta see it!" and young enough to work your walker...
Each Rugrats half hour contains two 10-to-12-min. episodes. How to up the ante to 80 minutes without letting the stretch marks show? By creating an epic event. "The only thing we were very much set on," says Csupo, "was to introduce a new Rugrat, a baby brother or sister." And there you have it--a buddy movie where the ages of the sibling rivals don't quite...
Pleasantville charms, and on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show, presenting a TV world made up of potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. Brother and sister are transported into the 50s television show "Pleasantville." David tries to keep the show going as scripted while his sister Jennifer immediately rebels. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda...
Part of the problem may be that Reardon, attempting to be original, has eschewed using the vengeful, violent Jean--who in her viciousness somewhat resembles the protagonist of Bastard, Ruth Anne Boatwright--as the narrator, instead picking her ineffectual brother Ray. This could have been an interesting switch in points of view, and the structure of the novel, as a series of flashbacks illuminating the present-day situation, could have worked...
...beginning to feel like a social outcast. Part of me keeps reminding myself that I wouldn't want to go to the dance with a boy that didn't like me for who I am, but it gets kind of depressing staying home and dancing with my younger brother. Do you think I should just suck it up and get it? Does that mean I am superficial? Will I lose all my character? What do I do? Love, Shnoz from...