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...Paul Wernick and director Ruben Fleischer, all of whom have worked for MTV - know this. They start with a premise that sounds like a horror-comedy remake of National Lampoon's Vacation. In a world where a pandemic has fatally infected virtually everyone, an improvised family of four drives cross-country to find refuge in a reputedly zombie-free California amusement park. Then the filmmakers bend this into a coming-of-age love-story road-movie quest epic. With many sharp laughs. And characters rich enough to occupy any movie that doesn't depend on head-bashing and entrails-feeding...
...movie, based on screenwriter Shauna Cross' novel Derby Girl, is set in the heart of small-town Texas, where a high school senior and part-time barbeque joint waitress, Bliss Cavendar (Juno's Ellen Page) is doing her best to please her mother, Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden). Brooke, a faded beauty queen, would like her two daughters (Bliss is the older sister) to follow in her footsteps in the pageant world and then, after the triumph of coronation, go on to some greater future that while undefined, does not mimic her own fate of settling down with an amiable husband...
While the Crusaders came out firing in the game’s opening minutes, Harvard’s defense came up strong on several occasions to keep Holy Cross off the scoreboard. After Harvard withheld the initial onslaught, it managed to generate advantageous offensive opportunities as well...
Harvard struck blood first in the 25th minute when Kutler finished a play that left fans impressed. After sophomore Melanie Baskind crossed the ball into the box, junior Katherine Sheeleigh tipped it behind her to Cutler, who sent the ball through the hands of Holy Cross goalie Mary Ferketic...
...Cross-fertilizations of cultures can produce something wonderful,” Yudhoyono told the full-capacity audience. “The more we exchange cultures and ideas, the more we learn from one another, and the more we cooperate and spread goodwill, the closer we are to world peace...