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THIS IS A CINDERELLA STORY, like the one in Sabrina, but with a twist. Once upon a time, there was a fellow with the most despised job title in the country: talk-show host. Little did he know that a movie director was having trouble finding an actor for a...
1 PERSUASION and SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The first of these Jane Austen adaptations is reserved, the second more bustling. But both have heroines (played impeccably by Amanda Root and Emma Thompson) who tend to others' emotional needs while submerging their own, yet find a romantic reward. The enchanted viewer is...
3 WILD REEDS Young love rarely seemed so tormented or rapturous as it does in Andre Techine's memory film. Political rivalries cloud a bucolic French town and Algerian war drums beat, but the main convulsions are romantic. A great date movie for teens with high sat scores and overheated...
4 LES MISERABLES Writer-director Claude Lelouch's film is less an adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic narrative than a passionate response to it--one overflowing heart heeding the call of another across the years. Resetting the tale mainly in the occupied France of World War II and reimagining...
"Sense and Sensiblity," a film adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, received six Golden Globe Awards nominations, and the romantic comedy "The American President" captured five, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Thursday. "The Golden Globes are the most telling harbingers of Oscar success," says film critic Richard Corliss. "They...