Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television that Cuban leader Fidel Castro had sent Oswald to murder Kennedy. This would supposedly inflame the public, who would demand instant invasion of Cuba. George Bush had conveniently placed nearly 100 U.S. Navy ships close to the Cuban shores all the way around the island. If the plot had come off as planned, the Soviets would have come to the defense of Cuba, and the conflict would have quickly escalated into an all-our nuclear war that afternoon. All of us would have died within 4 or 5 hours of Kennedy...
...humanitarian, of course), but the upshot of the deal is that word of the thousand pounds reaches the ears of the money-hungry English fop, Archibald Cunningham. In between twirling his lace cuffs and showing off his swordsmanship, Cunningham contrives to commit cool murder and expert theft, and the plot is off and running...
...film's multiple-location, multiple-plot, multiple-time evokes Katherine Hepburn in the classic "Two for the Road," but is all the rage with contemporary young directors. Chelsom's cinematography works through "Funny Bones" with far more subtlety than current darling Quentin Tarintino has ever mustered, and with far less pretension...
Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a lonely, orphaned, Chicago Transit Authority worker who becomes infatuated with Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher); a commuter she has never spoken to. On Christmas Day, Lucy rescues Peter after he falls unconscious onto the tracks of an approaching train. Due to an incredulous plot twist, Lucy is mistaken for Peter's fiancée at the hospital...
...While You Were Sleeping" attempts to be a romantic comedy with farsical plot twists. Most probably, only your stomach will twist with each painful attempt to craft a cute, witty, clever and plausible plot. In fact, so much of the film revolves around overheard and misconstrued conversations that you'll think you just bought an eight dollar ticket to see "Three's Company: The Movie...