Word: sightedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compromising couples, look no further. The Great Date Movie of Summer 98 has arrived; the screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel Out of Sight has it all. Guys will like the jewel heist. Girls will like the romance. And anyone not staring down the dating divide will just like the movie, period...
...Sight is a very visual film, also not because it takes the easy path of dwelling on its attractive main characters. Color dominates the atmosphere of the movie, from the tropical saturation of the Miami scenes to the dingy gray of inner-city Detroit. A mesmerizing clarity of hue and light is emphasized by camera angles more inventive than those of standard industry shots. The surprising shots usually enhance the movie--bright, brittle, nonchalant depiction of the sparse violence appears almost innocuous, preserving Foley's good-guy feel; a dizzying, lightning-quick camera pan around a prison yard makes...
...Sight is another fine mess Elmore Leonard has got us into. Basically it's about a congenital bank robber named Jack Foley (George Clooney) who, in the course of a jailbreak, meets and falls into unlikely love with a U.S. marshal named Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). He's the kind of guy who works unarmed except for his gift of smooth gab. She's the kind of girl whose idea of a nice present from her dad is a new pistol. (The actors are terrific and sexy together...
...brought in an estimated $34.8 million this July 4th weekend, far more than the $19.8 million by last week's No. 1 (and this week's No. 2), Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle." Rounding out the top five box office draws over the holiday weekend were "Mulan," "Out of Sight" and "The X-Files Movie." "Armageddon"'s ticket sales were considered less than Earth-shattering, considering its $160 million budget. In its first five days the film brought in $52.9 million, putting it right behind this summer's other top action flick, "Godzilla," which opened with $55.5 million over...