Word: savings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite ample opportunity, Brown had a number of chances to score by the crease, but the stellar performance of Prestifilippo between the pipes, including his phenomenal save at 3:35 left in the third...
...Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese resurrects a Manhattan savior of the streets in Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), a burned-out medic who has lost faith in himself and is haunted by the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. He finally finds redemption with the help of Mary (Patricia Arquette), whose own suffering brings them together. Here, Scorcese revisits his Last Temptation of Christ with a bit of Taxi Driver thrown in. With enough Christian motifs packed into the film to revive Sunday school memories for any born-again atheist, this movie explores the world of the paramedics...
...Basic message: Everyone needs a little bit of love, and a whole lot of salvation. For Frank, however, salvation is something he can't find because everywhere he sees Rose, the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. Saving lives to replace the ones he has lost is not the redemption he seeks. Instead he needs absolution that will help him understand the limits of his role. And he finds this through Mary, the daughter of a heart attack victim. A reformed druggie, Mary hovers between the worlds of Frank's hell and that of the living, as they...
...shining exception to this is the work of Smith as Ruth, who intelligently centers her performance on the identity of her character and delivers her lines as the character. Stotland is not so fortunate--she rarely transcends a simple line-reading and performs with little emotional variation, save a certain modulation of volume with which she attempts to point out to the audience which lines are important...
...actors may have fared better had the makeup design made some pretense of realistically defining the characters' ages. Alas, the audience is thus left to wonder how Stotland could possibly be the mother of Jump and Smith, save for the fact that she walks more slowly and speaks without the breathy, childish tone that Jump seems to mistake for the way high school students actually speak...