Word: main
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doubts about that. Her latest acting showcase, One True Thing, tells such an incredibly small story that it puts all the vast, sweeping movies of recent memory to shame. The film tells the story of a single family and manages to weave a stunningly intricate emotional epic. The main narrative unfolds in a flashback. Reporter Ellen Gulden is being questioned by a district attorney about assisting in her cancer-stricken mother's death. Using characters grounded in the simplicities of life, One True Thing gives us something almost unparalleled in recent cinematic memory--the triumph of the ordinary. Soman Chainani...
...Slam were a book instead of a film, it would read like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. As the story of a gifted young black man's struggles on the streets and in the jails of Washington, D. C., the main piece of this puzzle is undoubtedly Raymond Joshua. The film poses some fabulous questions. Can a man be justified in selling drugs if he has to support his family in the projects? Who is to blame for the overpopulation of young black men in America's jails today? The point that this film tries to drive home is that...
...state of Arizona, that great scourge of the rooster community, cockfighting is on its way out of the culture and into the history books. Indeed, voters turned out in record numbers to ban inter-fowl combat, and organizers cited the public's growing distaste for bloody feathers as the main reason for the measure's overwhelming success...
...main consideration was money," Boyadjiev says of his initial motives. "I was a foreign student so I wasn't sure how to write a resume or how to behave during job interviews." He applied and interviewed unsuccessfully for a few office jobs before calling...
...Woman lies in bed, suffering from cancer. Her life draws to a close amid a haze of painkillers and memories of a man she adored. With main ingredients such as these, Susan Minot's latest novel. Evening, could have collapsed into a shmaltzy mess of tear-jerking reflections on life and love. Minot, however, does more than deftly avoid this route in her lyrical tribute to the self-awareness that "falling in love" can engender. In the end, we do come away struck by the underlying sadness of the tale, not because we realize what "might have been," but because...