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...tension driving Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti's latest work sounds familiar, it should. A down-and-out B-movie producer unwittingly signs on to make a fiercely critical film about the rise of an Italian media mogul turned Prime Minister. Efforts to finish the film are thwarted by unseen political and economic forces. And the Italian politician is so despised by his cinematic nemeses that they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent...
...Cinderella Man The truish story of a down-and-out pug, Russell Crowe's James J. Braddock, who overcame injuries, dire, depression era poverty, and a lackluster record to become, briefly, the World's Heavyweight champion, Ron Howard's movie was the year's most notorious flop. But it was a good, tough, well-acted, beautifully designed and photographed movie, sentimental without being squishy, inspiring without being a tear-jerker and featuring honest, honorable performances by Crowe as well as by Renee Zellweger as Braddock's fierce, brave wife and Paul Giamatti as the wise-guy manager who stands...
...figured out how to use the powers of his position to give practical outlet to a wide range of passionate convictions about how to improve the world. After listening to a probation official on the radio, he decided in 1976 to put his $14,800 Navy severance pay toward helping down-and-out young people. From that modest start his Prince's Trust has become the country's largest foundation helping youth in need; it's given money and advice to more than 60,000 young people to help them start their own businesses. As a kind of charitable entrepreneur...
...role in the sequel), the former drug addict who once survived Jigsaw’s maniacal scheme, credits him with motivating her to address her problem. The sequel stars Donnie Wahlberg (“The Sixth Sense” and kin of Marky Mark) as Detective Eric Mason, a down-and-out cop struggling with severe disillusionment at work and the estrangement of his son Daniel (Erik Knudsen). Initially reluctant to get involved in a murder case of Jigsaw’s, Mason is left with no alternative when he realizes his son is among the potential victims. Jigsaw...
...sequel stars Donnie Wahlberg (“The Sixth Sense” and kin of Marky Mark) as Detective Eric Mason, a down-and-out cop struggling with severe disillusionment at work and the estrangement of his son Daniel (Erik Knudsen). Initially reluctant to get involved in a murder case of Jigsaw’s, Mason is left with no alternative when he realizes his son is among the potential victims...