Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what's so bad -- or good -- about Roger & Me? The film traces Moore's attempts to meet Roger Smith, the chairman of General Motors. Moore's idea is to show Smith the sagging economy and spirit of Flint, a company town ailing from thousands of GM pink slips. Between fruitless visits to Smith's offices, Moore chats with Flint's elite (seen spending a fun, fund-raising night at the city jail) and homegrown celebrities (like game-show host Bob Eubanks, who tells a joke that manages to be anti-gay and anti-Jewish). He follows the rounds...
...Dickensian overtones are impossible to ignore. John's situation seems a direct conflation of Great Expectations and Bleak House: he has the hope that his fortunes may improve and the knowledge that, if he survives, he may spend the rest of his days in fruitless litigation. But his adventures call to mind a host of other Victorian novels as well. He is sent briefly to a Yorkshire school and enters the harsh world of Nicholas Nickleby; he overhears a former governess tell her life story, and the events and diction take on the coloration of Jane Eyre...