Word: zooey
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...advertises the WORLD'S BEST CUP OF COFFEE, waves back at people hailing taxis and receives each advertising flyer as if it were a gift. And, since it's a Christmas movie, he brings his dad's broken family together and falls in love with a department-store elf (Zooey Deschanel). His spastic exuberance is partly counterbalanced by the tenderness given to the film by director Jon Favreau, working from a script by first-timer David Berenbaum. "His humor has a real vulnerability to it," says Favreau, who first met Ferrell on the set of Old School, which went...
...human yearning to connect. Among an attractively aimless flock of singles, All the Real Girls focuses on two figures: Paul (Paul Schneider), 22, a Dennis Quaid look-alike with the rep of a ladies' man who "took 'em down and laughed about 'em on the way home," and Noel (Zooey Deschanel), a precocious virgin just becoming aware of her power over men. She doesn't want to go to college and spend "four years writing bad girl-poetry"; he is reluctant to take advantage of the first girl who could make him fall into the abyss of love...
...Audiences aren’t exactly storming multiplexes in search of the next great cinematic treatise on life and love. All the Real Girls isn’t going to alter the situation, a shame for both moviegoers and the film’s perpetually underappreciated stars. The mischievous Zooey Deschanel (Almost Famous, The Good Girl) finally gets a lead role, playing an 18-year-old poet whose cynical worldview is tempered as she discovers desire, love and sex, and Patricia Clarkson (Far from Heaven) once again finds unexpected depth in what could easily have been a one-dimensional role...
JHUMPA LAHIRI, Pulitzer prizewinning author: "I've reread Franny and Zooey. There is something reassuring about Salinger, and I also wanted to read a novel set in New York City. Though it is a dark story, Salinger's New York family survives their difficulties with humor and grace...