Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...young girl named Emma (Mischa Barton), who presents her psychiatrist father (Harry Groener) with a book of her puzzling dreams. Finding their interpretation intractable, he consults a renowned professor (Jan Rubes), who suggests that the dreams "foretell the demise of the dreamer." Though all the characters are fictional, the plot springs from a case study of Carl Jung's; the psychologist found corroboration for his theory of the "collective unconscious" in a 10-year-old whose dreams seemingly divined her own death...
...hind legs, it's not that Gingrich does all these things well; it's that he does them at all. Publisher Baen doesn't pretend that Gingrich wrote the novel his name is on, in the sense we understand writing, but he did attend three meetings. "Newt provided the plot and some of the characters, and his co-author wrote a first draft, and then they flopped disks back and forth," says Baen. That may be how the "pouting sex kitten," who twines her fingers in the chest hairs of the main character before moving along to another crucial body...
...Cocoon, Gung Ho, Parenthood, Backdraft and The Paper, Howard splashed his vision on a huge canvas and peopled it with a sprawling cast. His problem was that in pushing a zillion buttons on the plot console, he often pushed too hard. Perhaps fearful of losing his audience, Howard would let his films get shrill or dewy. In Apollo 13, though, he has only a few dips into bathos (a too-cute child's face here, a dotty grandma there). Mostly, he makes viewers partners, trusting them to keep track of all the techno-talk, to take on faith what they...
...plot? Umm, we've forgotten it -- probably a threat to Gotham by some bad people -- but we know there was a lot of it. Lots of characters too. Robin (Chris O'Donnell) joins the series, which undercuts Batman's heroic loneliness. Nicole Kidman, as the requisite love interest, is little more than a party decoration. And two villains are too many. Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face and Jim Carrey as the Riddler have dueling star turns, with Carrey winning, of course; he can torture the most innocent banalities, like a simple "Well, yes," into delirious comedy...
...clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story whose plot is familiar in every weepie affair, from Romeo and Juliet to The Bridges of Madison County. And it follows the rule of historical romance: Print the legend...