Word: melodrama
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...people striving to be good in an indifferent world. Pulp Fiction 1994; Quentin Tarantino The most influential American movie of the '90s, for good and ill, this multipart crime epic is fully up to matching its cocksure ambition with its love of the medium and its mad pash for melodrama. The movie still has the impact of an Adrenalin shot to the heart. Talk To Her 2002; Pedro Almodovar At its simplest level, this transgressively witty film is about how a hospital orderly's sexual obsession achieves the unlikely awakening of a comatose woman. But there's actually nothing simple...
...comics, pop culture, nostalgia or the American experience should miss Frank King's Walt and Skeezix. "Gasoline Alley," with its gently paced melodrama, its charming humor, its caricatures, its cars, its countryside and its cityscape, fairly overflows with American iconography. Ideally, it should be taken out on a back screen porch on a warm afternoon, with a glass of cool lemonade and an old Western Electric circulating fan to thrum back and forth. But even without these accouterments, you will be swept away to another, bygone world...
...much time learning about important social issues it's a wonder they have time left for geometry. In its fourth season this Canadian young-adult soap tangles with sexually transmitted disease, mental illness and cheating--oh, plus the aftermath of last season's school shooting. But Degrassi's frank, melodrama-free writing and well-chosen cast--who, shockingly, actually look and act like kids--save it from earnest afterschool specialdom...
...doesn't seem that long ago," he thought, "when I was the young pitcher." Without any quarter, he made the team, but Danny Jackson had to sprain an ankle to secure him a start. On April 12 the Royals played the Toronto Blue Jays a game that for melodrama eclipsed all their October playoffs...
...Color of Money is that the filmmakers are not interested in providing a clear winner here, either in the Oscar sweepstakes or in the contest for the audience's affections. They feel that it is enough to explore these two characters and a situation that is rich in melodrama and comic misunderstanding...