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...Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead?? (1995)—The Man With The Plan...
...said his hard-line attitude comes from carefully weighting parental advice. “My mother said, ‘never talk ill of the dead?? but my father said, ‘tell the truth,’” Dershowitz said...
...writer/director Elaine May (former comedy partner of director Mike Nichols) asked this question while inspired by the corruption of mid-’70s New York City—the ’75 Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead?? showed that even the federal government had given up hope on the cesspool the city had become. Coated in a mob-thriller plot and realist filming techniques, this exploration of the nature of friendship continues to be relevant, amusing, and heartbreaking almost 30 years later...
...motherlessness of the main characters, so familiar to viewers of Disney movies, also squeaks by without becoming cloying. Anthony has discovered that a whimpered “My mum’s dead?? allows him to get candy, avoid punishment, and otherwise misbehave, a fact which he exploits throughout the film. This faux-cavalier attitude toward his mother’s death makes the moment when he finally acknowledges his pain genuinely emotional, rather than just cheaply sentimental...
...holiday, whose name means “The Day of the Dead?? in English, is not as morbid as many assume. Rather, it is a commemoration of those who have departed and celebration of continuing life--—often through visual and performance...