Word: fours
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while all four possibilities for this movie were certainly interesting, put them together and you get a movie that just tries too hard to accomplish too much. And what suffers the most? Explanations and motives for half of the movie, which, Jewison, in trying to incorporate every Oscar-worthy theme in filmmaking, has no choice but to leave out in a movie that is already very long. So we're never given a real reason as to why the ridiculously sinister Depalowski goes out of his way to persecute (and believe me, he really goes...
Leading the Huskies this season has been junior Marcus Blossom. After scoring only four points against UNC-Greensboro on Nov. 27, Blossom has been on a scoring rampage, averaging 20.7 points per game in the Huskies' last three contests...
Although Clemente's loss has made Harvard's rebounding an area of concern, the Crimson dominated the boards against the Big Green on Wednesday night. Harvard out-rebounded Dartmouth 41 to 29, and four of the five Crimson starters grabbed at least seven boards on the night...
...film opens with a scene of squalor in the McCourt household in 1935. Angela has just given birth to her first daughter, adding to her family of four sons. Shortly afterward, the daughter dies. Unfortunately the viewer doesn't have time to care whether the infant lives or dies, thus revealing the first of many flaws in the film: in adapting the book to film, the filmmakers tried to cram as much of the book as possible into a two-hour movie, and this simply doesn't work...
...Parker should have chosen from a few of the many themes that run wild through the movie: the father/son relationship, religion, storytelling, education, poverty and class struggles are all jumbled together in a coming-of-age format. Instead of being rabidly faithful to the book and trying to include four out of every five anecdotes, perhaps the adapters should have chosen a few key episodes that could have retained the flavor and heart of the original...