Word: charm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fortunately, in what is a mainly predictable film, Milo Shea, as the engineer of the necessary happy ending, comes off well. Shea, on the whole, is convincing and gives a charming, fatherly portrayal of the title character. Garofalo, while retaining her characteristic snappy wit, had a certain sluggish weariness both physically (a little too prominent eye wrinkles) and in delivery. At times, she seems to be shouting her lines (even accounting for her character's abrasiveness) without much conviction. Like-wise, Sanders, while manifesting a certain irreverent charm, was more often smiling in cheerful, bovine manner than giving any punch...
Atlanta-based Hooters of America employs 10,000 "Hooters Girls," young women the chain describes as "the surfer girls next door." Got up in orange short-shorts and tight-fitting tops, they earn $2.13 an hour plus tips dispensing food, drink and cheerleader charm at the company's 204 restaurants in 40 states and five foreign countries. Last year the chain, which is privately held, brought in revenues of $325 million...
...opening voice-over--"The summer I killed my father, I was 10 years old"--the film weaves a spell of magnolia and menace. This 10-year-old is Eve (Jurnee Smollett), second daughter of Dr. Louis Batiste (Samuel L. Jackson) and his elegant wife Roz (Lynn Whitfield). Louis pushes charm as much as pills, and the local ladies swoon at his touch. "To a certain type of woman," he notes, "I am a hero. I need to be a hero." Eve and her sister Cisely (Meagan Good), 14, need him to be one too, and when he proves a sinner...
...fact, so conscious of her lack of "magnificence" that she is instantly suspicious of the attentions of Morris Townsend (Ben Chaplin). Morris has no money and a shady past, but all of New York acknowledges his rare good looks and, even rarer, his lively charm and sense of adventure. Dr. Sloper is so impressed (or is it threatened?) by Morris that he can only explain the young suitor's attentions to Catherine as financial savvy. "He must think she has 80,000 a year," the Doctor says...
...part, Dr. Sloper whisks Catherine off to Europe, primarily to distance Catherine from Morris, but also in pathetic pursuit of Morris's globe-trotting, foreign-bred charm. The tragedy of Washington Square is that, by the end of the film, the only shadow of love that survives is the jealous, passionate admiration that exists between Morris and the doctor. Catherine has been erased from her own romance...