Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greatest director-actor combinations ever, in perhaps their finest moment. DeNiro's dogged portrayal of Jake LaMotta perfectly fits Scorsese's violent yet often balletic vision...
...opening scene is an antebellum wedding for the wealthy, giving the film a Gone With The Wind air. Commenting that weddings are just another "peculiar institution," two boys on the verge of manhood, Jake "Dutchie" Roedel (Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) suddenly decide they must become active participants in the preservation of the Southern way of life. Yet this brief conversation fails to justify the movie's dramatic tension. For Roedel and Chiles, risking life and limb is simply one more game. The charade is pervasive, as Ulrich looks entirely out of place in his Civil...
...Mara J. Dowdall Jesse S. Downs Chloe L. Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster...
...Missouri bushwhackers, Jake Roedel (watchful Tobey Maguire) and Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich, parading what may be star quality or merely attitude), start out with a few ideals--war's first casualty. They also serially entertain the young widow Sue Lee (Jewel, the singer). They are idiot savants at making war--without flair or even instinct but with an awful proficiency. At making love they are just idiots. They haven't had the example of the movies or even mush literature to teach them courtship. They hide their feelings as clumsily as they express them. "So, do you want...
...Reported by Nancy Harbert/Albuquerque, David S. Jackson/Los Angeles, Elaine Marshall/Las Vegas, Mark Shuman/Chicago and Jake Sullivan/London, with other bureaus