Word: plot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beyond the Walls asks the vital question of who the real enemy is. While the plot runs a typical route, Barbash succeeds in portraying many of the brutal realities of prison life. Israeli pop singer Boaz Sharabi makes a cameo appearance as an incarcerated musician. The moving film received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film...
...film begins with a hackneyed plot device straight out of the "There's Company Guide to Humor." Bill realizes only after leaving a convenience store that he has accidentally taken a can of tuna fish. When a policeman apprehends them, they assume it has to do with the Chicken of the Sea. This situation permits Stan witty one-liners like: "I'm being booked for accessory to shoplifting" before he realizes the serious nature of his arrest...
This is a mediocre film with a powerful ending. Most of it is simply filler that busy time until the rousing final scenes. As Vinny might say: De acting ain't great, and de plot's pretty predictuhble until de end; but, hey, it's a real good time...
...father of glasnost and perestroika; his efforts at reform unleashed powerful forces that spun out of his control and led to the breakup of the Soviet Union. The Washington-Vatican alliance "didn't cause the fall of communism," observes a U.S. official familiar with the details of the plot to keep Solidarity alive. "Like all great and lucky leaders, the Pope and the President exploited the forces of history to their own ends...
...plot--or at least the reasonable facsimile thereof--thickens. Grump is backing his own babe, Delia Cards (Aaron Zelman), the thoroughly corrupt golddigger with whom he sings "It's Good to Be Evil." (Sample lyrics: "Being kind is kinda stupid/ Being just is just as dumb.") So Grump tries to blackmail the pageant's judges: Wyatt Stinksinhere (a Yosemite Sam parody played by Michael Rosenbaum), Austin Tation (a Don King parody played by Todd Kessler) and Ali Caneet (a Muhammad Ali parody played by Skip Sneeringer...