Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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The fundamental question we must ask ourselves at the beginning of the century is this: What is the purpose of marriage? Is it - given the game-changing realities of birth control, female equality and the fact that motherhood outside of marriage is no longer stigmatized - simply an institution that has...
Among the human-being, or also-ran, movies, the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy The Proposal took second place with an honorable $18.5 million (a 45% drop from its $33.6 million win last weekend). The Hangover hung on with an additional $17.2 million, pumping its cume up to $183.2 million. Pixar...
You could count Bullock's above-average pictures on one hand and not use the thumb. Her two early hits, plus A Time to Kill and the sinfully enjoyable Miss Congeniality, would just about exhaust the list. Even adding the very debatable large-ensemble Crash wouldn't give her a...
Make that three problems: the rise of younger actresses like Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Katherine Heigl, who have built their own constituencies with hit movies and are now more likely than Bullock to be offered the few good romantic-comedy scripts that get written these days. Being liked is...
The movie, an adaptation of two 1920s novels by Colette, is superficially a slight affair, a Belle Epoque costume drama capable of putting an action fan to sleep in 10 minutes (the sheets always remain artfully draped). Chéri (Rupert Friend) and Lea are star- or rather age-crossed...