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Sounds dour, doesn't it? But Sweet Sixteen is not a gloomy picture. It's often slyly amusing. Liam, who manages a pizza shop, cottons on to a more lucrative delivery business: a side order of drugs. He has a friend, Pinball, who is comically, often stupidly, out of control and needs a lot of career guidance. Sometimes it's a touching film, especially in the scenes dealing with Liam's sister Chantelle (Annmarie Fulton), a single mom bravely struggling to raise her baby decently in an environment full of crime and beset by hopelessness...
...Sweet Sixteen may put viewers with a long memory in mind of Ken Loach's fine 1969 film Kes, about another troubled teen contending with a troubled life. It is similarly handsome and similarly lacking in the overt didacticism that has scored many of Loach's later films, not always to their advantage. Its ending will also remind viewers of Truffaut's The 400 Blows--a lonely lad standing on an empty shore, contemplating a young life gone wrong, a future full of bleak ambiguity. But that obvious reference somehow enhances Sweet Sixteen, unselfconsciously connecting it to an honorable...
...more amusing when Zucker capped off his presentation with a pitch for "the most upscale reality show you can imagine." On "The Apprentice" - debuting in early 2004 from "Survivor" Producer Mark Burnett - 16 people compete to get a chance to get a job working for Donald Trump. Sixteen people, backstabbing, and climbing the corporate ladder: it's "Survivor" without all the confusing nature metaphors...
...This hasn’t ruined our friendship, it has only made it hotter,” said Hendry, who edged out Buckley in a come-from-behind victory to advance to the Sweet Sixteen round yesterday...
...winner of the Harvard-Oklahoma State match will face either Niagara or the bracket’s top-ranked program, No. 16 Arizona, for an opportunity to advance to the Sweet Sixteen in Gainesville, Florida...