Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Catherine McCormack delivers a refreshing, funny and inspired performance in Marshal Herskovitz's new period piece. As Veronica Franco, a lower-class beautiful girl turned high-class court prostitute, McCormack leads a well-assembled cast in this slightly flawed--yet worth seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and make it shine. Marc...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...
Catherine McCormack delivers a refreshing, funny and inspired performance in Marshal Herskovitz's new period piece. As Veronica Franco, a lower-class beautiful girl turned high-class court prostitute, McCormack leads a well-assembled cast in this slightly flawed--yet worth-seeing--film about life as a courtesan in 16th century Venice. Prefaced by both opening and closing textual summations, the film clearly advances a social agenda--in this respect, it slides by with an average grade. The cleverness of the rest of its script and the excellence of the acting, however, save Dangerous Beauty and makes it shine. --Marc...
...water. For all the sisters who almost passed out during that exaggerated shot that moved from his waist to his face during the groundbreaking movie Waiting to Exhale, the shot that received a standing ovation in the theatre that I was in, a change has come. In U.S. Marshals, he's moved on to a more compassionate woman. His character in this movie is dating a French Starbucks waitress named Marie. She's feminine. She falls in all the right places. She endears herself to U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones '69) with her charming ignorance of U.S. laws...
...Marshal that always gets his man is snappish in that eye-rolling corny kind of way that makes him both endearing, pitiful and annoying. He has taken under his wing a gumshoe to nurture until he is ready to fly on his own. And of course the hunt to find this escaped good guy, the one who is running from the bad guys, is complicated by the hotshot desk - job agent who was assigned to the case. Oh, and all the people of small-town America have the stupidity required to hold residence in these towns. They are also always...