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...Governor Sarah Palin abuse the power of her office in trying to get her former brother-in-law, State Trooper Mike Wooten, fired...
...jaunty title - Happy-Go-Lucky - and a perky protagonist in a young woman called Poppy, played just this side of annoying, but often entrancingly, by Sally Hawkins. Some of the early reviewers have convinced themselves that Mike Leigh's movie is a lightsome romp, a tribute to keeping your spirits up in the noisome atmosphere of lower middle-class London, where Poppy works as a primary school teacher...
These sequences, like those with the driving instructor, are typical of Mike Leigh at his best. He works in an improvisatory yet controlled, way with his actors to shape and sharpen his material, and when that technique works, as it so often does in this movie, the results are unique in the contemporary cinema - behavioral honesty and intensity raised to a flash point. If this be comedy, it is so only in the nominal sense that no one dies at the end of the picture...
...Pizzotti, ranked third nationally with a 307 passing yards per game average, to take advantage of his skilled, yet injury-depleted receiving corps. While his top target, junior Matt Luft, remains healthy, sophomore Chris Lorditch is out for two to five weeks with a sprained ankle, and junior Mike Cook and sophomore Marco Iannuzzi are out for the season. This leaves Harvard with a pair of inexperienced wideouts—sophomore Levi Richards and freshman Adam Chrissis—and senior Alex Breaux to solidify the Crimson air attack. As for the ground game, team rushing leader sophomore Gino Gordon...
...outcome is, of course, obvious. Nevertheless, the film’s final sections bring to mind memories of Michael Moore at his best. Ultimately, “Slacker Uprising” represents the culmination of a failed project. The film is a re-editing of “Captain Mike Across America,” a documentary that Moore premiered in 2007 to tepid reviews. Despite Moore’s efforts to reinvent this film, “Slacker Uprising” suffers from excessive self-indulgence. If Moore wants to return to his past excellence, he must do more...