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...horror-comedy remake of National Lampoon's Vacation. In a world where a pandemic has fatally infected virtually everyone, an improvised family of four drives cross-country to find refuge in a reputedly zombie-free California amusement park. Then the filmmakers bend this into a coming-of-age love-story road-movie quest epic. With many sharp laughs. And characters rich enough to occupy any movie that doesn't depend on head-bashing and entrails-feeding. And a deft directorial touch that rarely pushes the humor in your face. (See TIME's photo essay "Rise of the Zombies...
Wichita (Emma Stone, she of the sultry voice and fetching overbite who was Jonah Hill's love object in Superbad) and Little Rock (Little Miss Sunshine's Abigail Breslin) are also serial grifters. They relieve a gas-station attendant (Chuck & Buck's Mike White) of his money, and Columbus and Tallahassee of their car and weapons. Little Rock is mature and calculating beyond her years, or, as she explains while frisking Tallahassee, "Twelve is the new 20 - gun, please." Wichita, who's about Columbus' age, has had all the world experience he's missed. For Columbus, whose idea of emotional...
...great name," Bliss sighs, her usual reserve shattered by Oliver's protruding hip bones and fervent attentions. "Yeah, if you like wayfaring Dickensian orphans," Pash says wryly. Her cynicism sets the tone for how we feel about the romance, and Barrymore's sweetly cheesy direction of two love scenes between Oliver and Bliss, one set in what looks like a wheat field and the other in a swimming pool, does not dissuade us from this. (See the top 10 fringe competitions...
...Berry says. “Just because people say ‘You’re a Harvard grad, you should be doing this, you should be doing that,’ you’ve got to follow what your passion is, got to follow what you love. At the end of the day, it’s James’ life; if he wants to go play football, go play football...
...Confucius said, ‘If you choose a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life,’” he says. “I really feel that’s the case here...