Word: plotted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Holmes) thinks that's all very cool, until she is left as collateral with Simon's evil wholesaler Todd (Timothy Olyphant). The movie is rather too frolicsome about drug use, but it carries an internal message: if you're on dope, you won't be able to follow the plot...
...sort Altman has been perping for decades, ensue. And though Neal, Charles S. Dutton (as Neal's best friend) and Liv Tyler (as the town's wild child) have charm to burn, the film mostly simmers. Like Camille's theatricals, the Anne Rapp script dawdles through predictable Southern Gothic plot twists that a real writer like Beth Henley would use to showcase memorably bent characters. Rapp's idea of character comedy is to have the movie's villain literally caught with her hand in the cookie jar. This little essay on greed and blurred bloodlines is another footnote...
According to Bolotin, Sparknotes will include elements like plot summaries, character analyses and discussion of symbolism, all researched and written by Harvard students...
...want to marry Maura Tierney?) when he meets kookissima Sandra Bullock on a very bumpy plane ride. She plays one of those "irresistible" hysterics who love life so ferociously their hugs would smother it at birth. This romantic comedy is just as pushy, and a disaster. All its desperate plot maneuvers (Ben and Sandra making like Tarzan on a train roof) can't give the film wit; all the slo-mo sleet, rain and confetti can't give it style. And why do the three stars look so drawn and pocky? Well, it had to come sometime: this is DreamWorks...
Strong in its acting and plot, nevertheless has its weaker points. The Deep End follows, perhaps too neatly and predictably, the pattern of conflict and resolution typical of the "movie the week." The first half of the film, the more dynamic and believable half, presents the conflict. The second half concentrates on the characters' emotions and is less credible, although more intriguing than the beginning. The film's turning point, as promised by its commercials and trailers, is the reappearance of Ben (Michael McElroy). But if his reappearance is predictable, the plot twist regarding his disappearance is certainly unexpected...