Word: pelican
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Goldwyn is an accomplished actor with an impressive resume. His first role as the antagonist in Ghost gained him much notoriety, and since then he has appeared in many films, including Kiss the Girls and The Pelican Brief. He starred in the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries From The Earth to the Moon, and his newest role is the voice to Tarzan in the upcoming Disney animated film, due out this summer...
...basic premise is a tired one, found most recently in such films as The Fugitive, The Net, The Pelican Brief and Conspiracy Theory. At times, Enemy of the State seems to steal directly from these predecessors. There is even a chase scene in a huge storm drain that is quite reminiscent of Harrison Ford's famous escape from Tommy Lee Jones '69 in the first movie mentioned above. Also, there are a few conspicuous references to 1984 by George Orwell and A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Despite the similarities, Enemy of the State manages to be intense, gripping...
Thanks to successful protection, the Interior Department is proposing to "delist or downlist" some two dozen species on the Endangered and Threatened Species List, including, clockwise, the bald eagle, gray wolf, brown pelican and Aleutian Canada goose. So will the list get shorter? Don't bet on it. Our breakdown of the list...
...there any law that prevents me declaring Pelican Island a National Bird Sanctuary?" T.R. asked, not waiting long for an answer. "Very well, then," reaching for his pen, "I do declare...
...have generally come to be in the world of movies: a manipulative, diluted heap of cliches. The even greater tragedy is that the Grisham-studio team has swept up many a prominent director in its platitudes. Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa, The Firm), Alan Pakula (Sophie's Choice, The Pelican Brief), and Joel Schumacher (Falling Down, A Time to Kill) have fallen prey to the Grisham spell...