Word: earnest
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Glenn Close stars in thisdramatization of the life of Margarethe Cammermeyer, a much-decorated Army colonel who takes on the military's anti-gay policy. After admitting her sexual preference to the Army at a security clearance interview, she is honorably discharged and then makes fierce and earnest attempts to change the rules. The movie, says TIME critic Ginia Bellafante, "provides enough inherent drama to make (it) far better than the typical TV movie of the week." Watch it on Feb. 6 at NBC. Check local listings for time...
...release. ``It taught me that you can work within the system and believe in it, but if the government wants to get you, they can go out and get you,'' he says. ``It also taught me that you never stop fighting.'' And when his battle for O.J. begins in earnest this week, a nation of spectators will be able to judge for themselves just how skilled a fighter Cochran really...
John Singleton directs the earnest Higher Learning...
...written by the composer on his death bed. (Scholars have been unable to determine the true identity of the "immortal beloved" to whom the letter was addressed.) Anton Schindler is the heroic detective in the film's search for the mystery woman. Schindler (Jeroen Krabbe) is Beethoven's miserably earnest friend...
...small dramatization of the merger, look at the best movie of 1994 (some critics say): Pulp Fiction, wherein professional killers engage in 1) savagely flippant violence, and 2) boyishly earnest moralism. A torrent of casual, brutal obscenity flows through discussions marked by a strange, scholastic nicety...