Word: riverboats
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Twenty years ago, Senator Howard Baker called the Reagan tax cut a riverboat gamble. But that gamble was only about money. This one is about freedom...
...remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp), who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways...
...remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp) who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways. The chocolatier will perhaps evoke for sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s] he goes." Indeed, some of the desserts apparently contain aphrodisiacs. The movie itself may suggest to those...
...here, in surreal counterpoint, is smooth Jim Baker, who looks and talks like Danny Kaye as the Mississippi riverboat gambler in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...
...here, in surreal counterpoint, is smooth Jim Baker, who looks and talks like Danny Kaye as the Mississippi riverboat gambler in "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty...