Search Details

Word: clive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...jacket of his soon-to-be-released novel, meets the stunning photographer Anna (Julia Roberts), and mutual attraction quickly turns into a brief moment of indiscretion. An internet sex joke gone awry ultimately has unintended effects as Anna meets and begins to fall in love with Larry (Clive Owen), a dermatologist possessing—being euphemistic here—an avaricious sexual appetite. The lovers occupy a universe where passion reigns over reason and disorder is inevitable; each greedily takes what he or she momentarily desires while delivering perfectly placed words intended to cause maximum hurt to another as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...times the film plays on our modern fantasies of sexual debauchery—desires most of us would never disclose—to consistently amusing ends. Dan’s joke ultimately has unintended effects as Anna meets and begins to fall in love with Larry (Clive Owen), a dermatologist possessing—being euphemistic here—an avaricious sexual appetite...

Author: By Tony A. Onah and Deborah Pan, S | Title: Film Reviews | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings to the job of questioning the woman who's about to walk out on him. In just a few minutes, Larry (Clive Owen) has experienced the first five stages of the cuckolded male: denial, derision, pleading, sobbing, threatening. Now, in confronting Anna (Julia Roberts) about her lover Dan (Jude Law), he atavizes into Caveman, the alpha male in competitive fury. "Where did you make love: What parts of the house, what parts of the body?" "How did Dan perform?" "Was he 'better'?" "Gentler," she acknowledges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Let's Talk About Sex | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...elegant, unpretentious, unguarded and kind. She's an ethical vegetarian who has used her star status to talk to John McCain and Hillary Clinton about micro-financing for women in developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie, in the lap-dance club. And it was hugely enjoyable to do it with her. She was so smart and intelligent, and I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Fantasy You Can Bring Home to Mother | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...been with Alice all this time, is infatuated with Anna (Julia Roberts). She feels the same attraction, and for a few months they've been coupling furtively while keeping lodgings with their significant others. Now comes the messy announcements to Alice and to Anna's lover Larry (Clive Owen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Next