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...must-miss movies of the summer: The Flintstones. Yabba-dabba-dumb. The one frisson of joy you get from seeing live action versions of all of the dinosaurs disappears about 15seconds into the trailer. What all that talent was doing in there I can hardly imagine. Moment of wit: the B-52's cameo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer Resurrected | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...emotions. The chemistry Broadbent and Walters display on screen makes it seems as if they have known each other for years. They play the parts like they understand each persons idiosyncracies and pitfalls. Basically, they seem like they have been married for decades. But with the traditional British wit, biting and cynical and cuttingly humorous, their two characters endure the unspeakable...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: Summer's Gift Will Touch Your Heart | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville, Florida, psychiatrist who worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The World According to Gump | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Classically trained and sitcom-bred, Hanks knows that the starkest drama can always use a leavening of wit. For most of the film, he underplays Forrest's reactions at a level somewhere between a fretful deadpan and the rural slyness of the early Andy Griffith. So when he releases his feelings at the end (when questions of fatherhood and family traits are involved), the scene gushes like a geyser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: The World According to Gump | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

...that is one of the highlights of "The Shadow"--the wit. Most action-adventure movies have problems with transitions, muffing their scene switches and storyline changes. "The Shadow" covers up the potentially awkward moments with witty lines, allowing for a smoothly flowing movie--and a fair amount of laughs...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

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