Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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8 Everyone Says I Love You All singing, all dancing, all talking, as they used to say. In Woody Allen's lovely flight of fancy, the singing is often kind of croaky, the dancing sort of klutzy and the dialogue pure Woody--the noises that psychologically aware, politically correct people...
So does Dorothy. Hiding a romantic soul under a patient and realistic manner, she's just the woman to keep a grounded high-flyer functioning out of a home office. And to show him that love is something more than a contact sport.
As a name for a film, Jerry Maguire is less a title than a label. But in its refusal to pump up the volume, it catches the quietly confident spirit in which this movie has been made. Neither Crowe nor his actors appear to be working hard for hilarity, high...
Streisand does nothing new with the romantic comedy format, but she gets one thing right for sure: if she's going to cut out all the sex, then it damn well had better be funny. Thankfully, it is--"The Mirror Has Two Faces" has some of the sharpest one-liners...
The perennial ill of campus musicals, a singing voice too weak or too sour to carry, doesn't show its face here at all. Andrew Burlinson as Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice, projects with a sweet clarity, and Sarah Cullins as Mabel, his romantic counterpart and the General's daughter, banters...