Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novel opens with the promise of another of Amis' feats of controlled chaos. The plot develops with the right balance of malice and merriment. At the age of 40, struggling novelist Richard Tull understands that he will never make it as a writer. His cerebral fiction no longer gets points for degree of difficulty. He reviews books for pittances, his wife earns more than he does, his children distract him, and he is impotent...
ACCORDING TO DIRECTOR BARBET Schroeder, by the time he started shooting his remake of Kiss of Death, "only the title and one plot point remained" from the 1947 original. Sure...
These movies, after all, have little redeeming social value; they're mostly about a blissfully oblivious upper class. They do not pretend to have a cohesive plot; the dancing sometime hangs on stories as flimsy as Astaire's having a girl back home who prevents him from dating Rogers. And their movies certainly don't carry any weighty morals or lessons...
...Wrong Trousers" is a half hour long claymation extravaganza. It features an adorable dog named Gromit, his demanding (but ultimately loving) owner Wallace, a pair of Techno-trousers gone astray and an evil penguin with a penchant for diamonds and chicken disguises. The outrageous plot and strikingly compelling characters, along with what any animator will attest to be virtuoso (and visually exciting) motion make "Trousers" much more right than wrong...
Loosely based on the 1947 film of the same name, writer Richard Price has added several dimensions to this version, while leaving the main plot intact. The film centers around excrook Jimmy Kilmartin (Caruso), who ends up caught between a corrupt Distcrict Attorney and an unforgiving mobster. Kilmartin, at the pleading of his cousin Ronnie, is coerced into driving a tuckload of stolen cars across Manhattan to an awaiting freighter. It is hard to forget the bizarre sight of four brightly lit trucks barreling through the streets of Manhattan. When the cops arrive on the scene, the rest...