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This is the third movie you've done with Frank Darabont, the third movie he's directed based on your work. Well, actually, there are four. The way I met him was, he did a short film of [my story] "The Woman in the Room." That was back when he was in his early twenties and he was trying to break into movies. Like [The Shawshank Redemption], which he did next, it didn't have so much as a smidge of the supernatural...
STARRING: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden, James Whitmore DIRECTOR: Frank Darabont...
...Majestic December 21 After two consecutive adaptations of serialized Stephen King prison novels, crowd-pleasing director Frank Darabont once again enters the world of the uplifting. The Majestic tells the story of Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey), a blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter who loses his memory in a car accident. Appleton finds himself in a small California town, and is mistaken for the lost son of Harry Trimble (Martin Landau). Here he joins the task of revamping an old movie theatre, The Majestic, along with rediscovering himself, finding true love and other such escapades, such as evading the Communist hunters who eventually...
...traditionally pretigious films are supposed to be released, there doesn’t seem to be an overwhelming number of award worthy films. One film, however, seems to aspire to return to nostalgic movie magic. As his follow-up to The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, director Frank Darabont returns to a more classic era in The Majestic, his salute to Frank Capra and the movie palaces of old. I’ll be sure to see it away from home...
...three real best pictures of the year--The Talented Mr. Ripley, Being John Malkovich and The End of the Affair (throw in Election or Toy Story 2 and I'd still be happy). To look edgy, they reluctantly toss in Spike Jonze for Best Director and omit Frank Darabont for The Green Mile even though the movie is nominated for Best Picture--but that just makes them look self-conscious and lame...