Gideon58's Reviews

One of the most pleasant surprises I've had as a film-goer was seeing In Good Company, a surprisingly smart sleeper that, in my opinion, was not marketed properly. The trailers for this film made it look like a sneering sex comedy, which it is not at all. This is a deft look at corporate takeovers, ageism, family values, and yuppiedom...things that Hollywood's most cherished demographic can definitely relate to but marketing dropped the ball here and tried to sell the film as something it isn't.

Dennis Quaid plays a 50ish advertising executive for a sports magazine, father of two with one on the way, who gets downsized during a corporate buyout of the magazine and loses his position to a 26-year old hotshot (Topher Grace) who doesn't know anything about sports or sports magazines, but knows how to woo clients, make money, and keep a sharp eye on the bottom line. And as sharp as the young man is in the board room, he is equally inept in his personal life (or what there is of it) until he meets Quaid's nubile, young daughter (Scarlett Johannsen).

Quaid is solid, as usual, but the real story here is Topher Grace, who walks off with this film in a charismatic star turn as Carter Duryea, the young corporate hotshot who is a whiz in business but is clueless outside the office. Grace is a revelation in this film,making every moment count, whether he is trying to rally his new employees behind him in his first meeting with them (a scene so realistic Grace appears to be improvising) or at home talking to his goldfish, calling old high school buddies who he has nothing in common with anymore, or trying to keep his wife (Selma Blair) from divorcing him.

Solid support is also provided by Marg Helgenberger as Quaid's wife, Clark Gregg as Grace's boss, and especially David Paymer, memorable as a co-worker of Quaid's who he is forced to fire. A rock solid screenplay and a haunting musical score are the finishing touches to this very special film that is definitely not for all tastes, but for the folks who like a little meat with their movie, rewards are to be found here.

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In her Shoes is an entertaining and engrossing comedy drama about two sisters named Maggie and Rose. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is a flighty, irresponsible party girl who can't hold onto a job, is not above picking people's pockets for money, and completely dependent on her power over men to get what she wants. Rose (Toni Collette)is a workaholic lawyer who loves her sister but has grown weary of cleaning up Maggie's messes. A fed-up Rose finally throws Maggie out of her house and Maggie ends up on the doorstep of her grandmother, Ella (Shirley MacLaine)who she never knew because of a falling-out she had with Maggie and Rose's dad.



What we then see is the sisters becoming a little more like each other as they drift apart. Ella forces Maggie to grow up and get a job while Rose lightens up, quits her job and falls in love with a co-worker (Mark Feuerstein).

This film is a warm look at family dynamics and how no matter what they may put you through, family is family and that never changes. Cameron Diaz gives the best performance of her career as Maggie and Toni Collette is solid, as always, as Rose.

MacLaine gives an Oscar-worthy turn as Ella, who reminded me so much of Aurora in Terms of Endearment. Ken Howard has one of the best roles of his career as the girls' father and Candice Azzara is superb as the stepmother from hell. The film is a little long, but it is never uninteresting and sustains interest until the end. If you have a sister, after watching this movie, you will want to get on the phone and tell her how much you love her. Don't miss this one.

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Adam Sandler and Kevin James (The King of Queens) provide big laughs in I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry, an uproariously funny comedy that, though not terribly concerned with being politically correct, will make you laugh in spite of yourself.

Sandler is Chuck and James play Larry, best friends and firemen who have seen each other through everything, including the death of Larry's wife. After a recent brush with death in a bad fire, Larry becomes concerned that his current insurance benefits will not properly provide for his children in the event of his death and learns that the only way he can properly provide for his children is to enter into a domestic partnership with Chuck, where they would pretend to be gay lovers and actually marry.



Laying aside the fact that I can't imagine two heterosexual men ever doing this in real life, it does lay the groundwork for one of the funniest comedies I have seen in years. Gay stereotypes are perpetuated at every turn but there is nothing mean-spirited about it making the incredible premise plausible.

Also thrown into the mix are Larry's son, whose interests seem to be limited to tap dancing, baking, and auditioning for the school musical, and a pretty attorney (Jessica Biel) who catches Chuck's eye but unfortunately he has to conceal his feelings about her.



Mention should also be made of a hilarious supporting turn from Ving Rhames as a fellow firefighter who is inspired to come out of the closet, after being inspired by Chuck and Larry's relationship. Primarily, it is the inspired comic teaming of Adam Sandler and Kevin James that makes this one work.

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Inside Daisy Clover is an oft-maligned, oft-misunderstood, but still fascinating drama from the 1960's that definitely began to earn second looks after the passing of its leading lady.

Curiously, this is a film that every young actress in Hollywood in 1965 wanted to do and screen tested for, including Elizabeth Hartman and Patty Duke.

The role of a 15 year old tomboy who dreams of and eventually becomes a movie star finally went to Natalie Wood, who works very hard to lose herself in the role. Wood never quite pulls off the tomboy thing, but she doesn't shy away from it either, delivering a gutsy performance as a young dreamer who is reminded of reality on a daily basis through the responsibility of taking care of her senile mother, beautifully played by Ruth Gordon.

After achieving movie stardom with the help of a Svengali-type producer (Christopher Plummer), she does find romance with a charismatic young movie star (Robert Redford); however, this romance is short-lived.

This movie is so 1960's...the promotional film within a film to introduce Daisy to Hollywood is absolutely hilarious...it's just something you never see anymore and Daisy's meltdown in a sound booth in the movie studio borders on laughable, but if you're fan of Wood, or the 60's or old fashioned Hollywood glamour, you can get your fill with this one.

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Inside Man is a convoluted and confusing crime drama that offers way too many questions and not enough answers. I've always considered Spike Lee a hit and miss director and this one was a big miss for me.

This confusing and emotionally manipulative drama follows what appears to be a bank robbery that turns into a hostage situation except that the hostages don't seem to be the #1 priority of anyone outside this bank.

Denzel Washington, in his fourth outing with director Lee, delivers one of his most unconvincing performances as Detective Keith Frazier, a badly dressed hostage negotiator who seems more worried about some pending charges from IAB regarding a prior case than he is about these hostages. Christopher Plummer plays the President of the Board of Directors of the bank whose only concern seems to be a safe deposit box inside the bank that he doesn't want anyone to know about and he dispatches Jodie Foster to get it out of the bank before the robbers find it.

There's just way too much that's left unexplained here...its never really made clear who Jodie Foster's character works for and she also seems to have her own agenda which has nothing to do with the hostages.

Basically, what Lee has given us here is a hostage drama where no one seems to care about the hostages. Washington comes off as forced but Clive Owen, who plays the mastermind behind the robbery, comes off as the most likable character in the film.

The film also suffers due to overblown direction, a convoluted screenplay, one of the worst musical scores I have ever heard, and an ending that leaves a bad taste in the mouth. A big disappointment from Lee and Washington,who have both done better work.

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A surprisingly smart comedy from Joel and Ethan Cohen, Intolerable Cruelty is a deft and entertaining comedy about the relationship that develops between a fast talking attorney (George Clooney) and a man-eating gold digger (Catherine Zeta-Jones)who eats husbands for lunch.

This delightful throwback to the Tracy-Hepburn, Grant-Russell comedies of the 40's and 50's moves at a nice pace and is anchored by a razor sharp performance by Clooney, who has rarely been more appealing on screen. Clooney does everything right here and his performance alone makes this film worth seeing, but Zeta-Jones never allows herself to be overshadowed by him in one of her more venomous characterizations.

Worthwhile bits are also contributed by Geoffrey Rush, Billy Bob Thornton, Richard Jenkins, and Edward Herrmann. One of the most underrated comedies ever made which is a definite must-see for Clooney fans.

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Into the Wild is a terribly sad and emotionally gripping cinematic journey, incredibly based on a true story, about a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless. who after graduating from college, decides to forsake his cushy upper middle class lifestyle, change his name to Alexander Supertramp, and journey across country,with nothing but the clothes on his back, with his eventual goal being to travel to the Alaskan wilderness.



Sean Penn's meticulous direction and eloquent screenplay take us on a cinematic journey quite unlike anything we've seen before. This is not an easy watch...there are several moments in this film depicting what Chris has to do to survive in the wilderness that completely redefine the phrase "roughing it" and definitely make this a film not for all tastes. but if you can stomach it, the journey is worth it and will leave a lump in the throat.

Emile Hirsch is impressive in the physically and emotionally demanding role of Chris, probably the strongest performance of his career. Oscar winners William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden appear as Chris' parents and Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, and in a performance that earned him his first Oscar nomination, Hal Holbrook, also score in brief supporting roles. The film is also beautifully photographed with some breathtaking scenery but it is the work of Penn and Hirsch that make this deliberate journey worth your time.

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Halle Berry won an Emmy for her performance in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge a lavish TV movie (that should have been a theatrical release) that chronicles the tragic life and seesaw show business career of the legendary Dorothy Dandridge, Hollywood's first true African American movie star and the first black actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Carmen Jones).

This film economically chronicles Dandridge's humble beginnings as a child of sexual abuse who becomes a nightclub singer and eventually a major film star despite her race, which threw up all kinds of road blocks along the way. In addition to her show business struggles, we see her romances with one of the Nicholas Brothers as well as an affair with Carmen Jones director Otto Preminger.

Berry finally found a role where her natural beauty worked for her...her resemblance to Dandridge is quite striking, especially in one scene where she is filming a scene for Carmen Jones. The film also reveals Dandridge's inner demons, which manifested themselves through drugs and alcohol and eventually led to her tragic early death. HBO spared no expense in bringing this tragic star's life to the screen and it paid off in a lush and entertaining film worthy of theatrical release.

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Writing team Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers scored a bullseye with Irreconcilable Differences, a surprisingly smart and amusing comedy that blended the family dysfunction comedy with the "inside Hollywood" type of comedy and the results is quite entertaining.
Our story begins with 10-year old KC Brotzky (Drew Barrymore)arriving in a Los Angeles courtroom where she is suing for emancipation from her divorced parents,filmmakers Albert and Lucy Brotzky (Ryan O'Neal and Shelley Long). The film then flashes back to the beginning of Albert and Lucy's relationship,showcasing the first smash hit film they made together, followed by another film during which Albert has an affair with the leading lady (Sharon Stone,very funny in one of her earliest roles)and how the making of this film tore Albert and Lucy apart. Albert and his new love then make a "Gone With the Wind"-type spectacle that bombs at the box office and things just go from bad to worse with poor little KC caught in the middle and tired of being a bargaining chip between her parents. O'Neal delivers what is probably the best performance of his career and Long is a good match for him. Aided by a deft screenplay, O'Neal, Long, and Barrymore deliver a nearly forgotten gem here which delivers warm family laughs and takes accurate potshots at Hollywood as well.

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Though Pulp Fiction is definitely Quentin Tarantino's stylish masterpiece full of cinematic flair and magicianship, Tarantino also proved to be a master storyteller with his severely underrated follow-up Jackie Brown, a richly entertaining story of LA criminals and low-lifes that may not contain the cinematic trickery of Fiction, but is a textbook example of telling a great story on film.

And it's not so much the story itself, but the way it unfolds with its introduction of characters which are alternately detailed and murky, but done in a style that keeps you glued to the screen and greedily anticipating what's going to happen.

Tarantino's story centers around the title character, a 44-year old flight attendant (Pam Grier) whose double life and shady past are the linchpin of an elaborate story of her struggle to get out from under the thumb of a sleazy weapons dealer (flawlessly portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson).

Once again, Tarantino tells his story from the far reaching points of an octagon, where each point of the octagon appears to have no connection to the next but it all manages to flow into one smoothly executed climax displayed from several points of view.

Tarantino's deft screenplay rivals his Oscar-winning Pulp Fiction screenplay and his direction is as stylish as ever. As always, Tarantino's penchant for stunt casting pays off, especially with the casting of 70's action heroine Grier (who still looks fantastic) in the title role. Grier is smart, sexy, and completely commands the screen without ever going over the top.

Tarantino also revived the near comatose career of Robert Forster by casting him as Max Cherry, the cool-headed bails bondsman who befriends Jackie. Forster's smooth and controlled performance actually earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, though the whole cast works at Oscar level.

Also providing solid support are Michael Keaton (one of his best performances), Michael Bowen, Bridget Fonda, Chris Tucker, and especially Robert De Nio, having a ball playing Jackson's old buddy who re-enters his life. And it's all backed up by some of the most amazing Motown music from the 1960's that will evoke memories by itself. Tarantino and company hit a bullseye here.

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Jagged Edge is a slick, but unconvincing courtroom thriller about a former criminal attorney (Glenn Close) brought back to criminal law to defend a rich industrialist (Jeff Bridges)accused of murdering his wife.

The film is unconvincing because there is no viable explanation as to why Close's Teddy Barnes believes that Bridges' character is innocent, other than his word. Barnes left criminal law because she hated defending the guilty and yet she takes Bridges' case without question because he pretends to cry when they revisit the murder scene and because he flirts with her, despite every piece of evidence regarding to the case points to him from jump.

She finds out mid-trial that he lies about an extra-marital affair he had and yet continues to defend him. Courtroom dramas like this only work if you believe in the innocence of the accused up to some point and I never did.

Close and Bridges work hard to convince in their roles and they do have strong support from Robert Loggia (Best Supporting Actor nominee) as Close's world-weary detective, Peter Coyote as the slimy prosecutor and Close's former employer, John Dehner as the judge and Leigh Taylor Young as a key witness. If you don't look at the story too closely, it is watchable.

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Tom Cruise had one of his best roles and earned his second Oscar Nomination for Best Actor for his charismatic Jerry Maguire, a richly entertaining comedy drama that is a seamless blend of character study and romantic comedy.

Jerry is a driven and ambitious sports agent for an international agency that represents professional athletes in all sports who has a crisis of conscience that motivates him to write a "mission statement", which turns out to be more of a defiant manifesto blasting everything that is wrong in his business. he distributes his "memo" throughout the office and though it gets faint praise initially, it does end up getting him fired from the agency.



We then see Jerry try to continue his business though he only has one client who agrees to stick with him. Director-writer Cameron Crowe (Fast Tines at Ridgemont High, Almost Famous) solidified his position as a master cinematic storyteller with this epic story told on an intimate scale.



His extremely deft screenplay is sharply delivered by a perfect cast. This role seems tailor-made for Cruise and he makes the most of it. Cuba Gooding Jr. won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his star-making performance as Rod Tidwell, Jerry's most loyal client; Renee Zelwegger was the find of the year as Dorothy Boyd, the secretary from the agency who follows Jerry when he's fired and agrees to work for him and eventually falls for him; Bonnie Hunt scores as Dorothy's sister as does Kelly Preston, in one of her best performances as Jerry's shark of an ex-fiancée. Regina King should have received an Oscar nomination for her solid performance as Tidwell's wife, Marcy; Jay Mohr is quite funny as Bob Sugarman, a rival agent who is battling Jerry to represent another football player (Jerry O'Connell)who is being watched over by his protective dad (Beau Bridges).



A rare gem from the 1990's that is not only grandly entertaining, but vividly real...there's nothing false or affected here (though some might find Gooding's Tidwell a little over the top), this film is one of those rare treats that is long, but you hardly feel it. A real treat and a must for Cruise fans.

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Jesus Christ Supestar is the 1973 film version of the Broadway musical based on the album of the rock opera that put composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice on the map. This musical retelling of the last seven days in the life of Jesus is an opera in the truest sense of the word (there is only one spoken line in this film) and, in a rare occurrence for movie musicals, the original score has been transcribed to the screen intact.



Director Norman Jewison has filled the movie with interesting visual trappings to indulge the believers and has also presented this story in a way that allows the viewer to decide whether or not to believe. He sets the entire film up as a group of theatrical players arriving at a desert location on a bus, unloading costumes and scenery and putting on a musical production about Jesus. At the end, they are observed getting back on the bus and leaving. What's interesting to me is that Ted Neeley, the actor who plays Jesus, is neither seen getting off the bus at the beginning of the movie nor getting back on the bus at the end, so take from that what you will.



The movie is beautifully filmed with an energetic young cast. Neely is effective as Jesus and sings the role well, with his soliloquy, "Gesthsemene" being especially impressive. The late Carl Anderson is electrifying as Judas and makes "Heaven on their Minds", "Damned for All Time" and "Superstar" memorable musical highlights. Kudos as well to Bob Bingham as a chilling Ciaphas, Kurt Yaghjian as a menacing Annas, Barry Dennen as the tortured Pontius Pilate, and Joshua Mostel, who stops the show with "King Herod's Song." Jewison's solid direction and some inspired choreography by Rob Iscove help to make this one of the best musicals transferred to the big screen. For the initiated and open-minded, a one-of-a-kind motion picture experience.

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Directed by Betty Thomas (The Brady Bunch Movie), John Tucker Most Die is a breezy little piece of fluff about a high school stud (Jesse Metcalfe, ex-John, Desperate Housewives) who is juggling three different girls, who all are part of different cliques, so they never really communicate, until fate brings the three ladies together and they learn the truth. The girls initially want to snipe at each other, but another girl (Brittany Snow)who has witnessed John in action, suggest the girls get revenge instead of getting mad and a plan is initiated to methodically destroy John Tucker's credibility as a human being, but the plan gets out of hand and heads in directions that no one anticipated.

Thomas' energetic and imaginative direction is a big plus in making this pretty predictable comedy worth sitting through. There's no question that the camera loves Metcalfe and he works hard in the title role and Brittany Snow does display some solid leading lady potential as soon as she figures out she's not Hillary Duff. The film does provide laughs but the title character doesn't really learn the lesson he should and without that payoff, the film just leaves a bad aftertaste.

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Just Friends was a hugely disappointing comedy that had the potential to be something really special but lost its way somehow. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as a former fatty who returns to his small hometown in New Jersey ten years after graduating from high school...rich, successful, and most importantly, thin and attempts to rekindle a romance with a girl (Amy Smart)who kept him in "The Friends Zone" in high school.

The expected story path where the newly skinny person returns home to show off the new and improved version of himself goes terribly awry here because our hero is just not very likable and it's not the way he's written or the way Reynolds portrays him...it's a perfect melding of both. This character does some really unpleasant things and treats everyone in his path in a very shabby manner and Reynolds'performance is so over-the-top that it grates on the nerves. There are two memorable supporting turns by Anna Faris as a wigged-out client of Reynolds and Christopher Marquette as his little brother, but otherwise I'd take a pass on this unpleasant and unfunny film experience that works extremely hard for laughs but generates precious few.

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Just Like Heaven is a charming romantic fantasy, which despite some inconsistencies in the areas of story and continuity, still manages to make the viewer buy what the filmmakers are selling. Mark Ruffalo plays a young widower who sublets a San Francisco apartment and shortly after moving in, meets what he believes is a ghost (Reese Witherspoon)who claims that he is living in her apartment. When it is apparent that she is not alive but she hasn't gone to the afterlife either, Ruffalo and Witherspoon decide to figure out what's going on and learn that she is alive, but she has been in a coma for three months following a car accident and while trying to figure out how to meld her spirit with her body again, they, of course, fall in love. There are minor details in the film that don't make sense. For example, when Witherspoon is in the apartment, she is unable to pick up the telephone, but when she's in a bar with Ruffalo, she is able to knock beer mugs and shot glasses out of his hands to keep him from drinking. When they find out that Reese's character is in a coma, he tells the doctor that he was her boyfriend but is not questioned about the fact that he is showing up three months after the accident occurred. And though Ruffalo is the only one we think can see her, at one point, we're supposed to believe that her five year old niece can, but these are minor quibbles in an otherwise enchanting romantic comedy.



Reese Witherspoon has never been better (and that includes her Oscar-winning turn in Walk the Line) and Ruffalo is a sexy and delicious leading man. There is also a very funny turn from Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite)as an employee of a Psychic bookstore, who even though he can't see or hear Witherspoon, is able to sense her presence and what she is feeling. It's a lovely little romantic comedy as long as you don't think about it too much.

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I think I may have been one of the few people who saw this film in the theaters, but I really enjoyed Kiss me Goodbye, a lighthearted comedy about a widow (Sally Field) preparing to remarry, who, days before her wedding, is visited by the ghost of her deceased first husband (James Caan), who was a Broadway director and choreographer. The story goes to all the familiar places that you would expect it to, but it is played with such an exuberant energy that you can't help but start to care for these people. Field and Caan are in top form and Jeff Bridges is at his adorably nerdy best as Field's new fiancée (a precursor to his performance in The Mirror has Two Faces). There's also a brief, but memorable turn by the late Claire Trevor as Field's mother. A charming romantic fantasy that will grow on you upon repeated viewings.

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Lackawanna Blues is an entertaining, engrossing, emotionally-charged HBO-TV movie based on the childhood memories of actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson (who also appears in a small role).

This joyous motion picture experience is centered around Santiago-Hudson's childhood guardian, Rachel "Nanny" Crosby, a strong, big-hearted black woman who ran a boarding house in upstate New York during the 1950's. Nanny was a one-woman social service organization whose boarding house was filled with drunks, derelicts, cripples, drug addicts, misfits, and everyone else in town who needed a hand-up instead of a hand-out.

The crux of the story revolves around Nanny's relationship with young Ruben (beautifully played by Marcus Franklin),a boy whose divorced parents were unable to raise the boy properly so Nanny took him in. S. Epatha Merkeson, who has been wasted for years in the thankless role of Lieutenant Van Buren on NBC's Law & Order, turns in a powerhouse performance as Nanny, the neighborhood mother-figure whose boarding house became a symbol for the downtrodden black folks in her town. Merkeson is nothing short of magnificent, in a performance that earned her a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award.

Merkeson is backed by an impressive all-star cast that includes Terrance Howard (brilliant and heartbreaking as Nanny's husband), Louis Gossett Jr., Rosie Perez, Jimmy Smits, Delroy Lindo, Macy Gray, Michael K. Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Henry Simmons, Patricia Wettig, Ernie Hudson, Mos Def, and Hill Harper as the adult Ruben. Colorful and exciting, beautifully photographed and exquisitely scored, this is one of a kind motion picture experience that works on all levels, but if for no other reason, is worth seeing for the electrifying starring performance by S. Epatha Merkeson, who is given the role of a lifetime and makes the most of it.

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Lady Sings the Blues was the heavily fictionalized film biography of legendary cabaret chanteuse Billie Holliday, who rose to great stardom as one of the great blues impressionists of our time but, sadly, was never able to completely escape the multiple demons which haunted her for her entire life. Diana Ross made an impressive film debut in the role of Lady Day, which garnered her an Oscar nomination.

Though her opening scenes playing Billie as a teenager are silly and unconvincing, Ross delivers a riveting performance for the most part, guided by her Svengali Berry Gordy, who makes a brief cameo appearance as a drug dealer. Billy Dee Williams officially became a star with his charismatic turn as Louis McKay, Billie's true love and Richard Pryor also received an Oscar nomination for his funny and caustic performance as "Piano Man", Billie's best friend and piano player, who was chasing demons of his own.

The film is lavishly mounted with Ross draped in some stunning costumes that definitely merited Oscar attention. Ross gets plenty of opportunities to sing and though she really doesn't sound anything like Holliday did, she does capture the spirit of this tragic songbird.

It's not a great guide as far as providing facts about Holliday's life. It seems to gloss over Holliday's alleged early days as a prostitute and her drug abuse, but it's a grand example of storytelling on screen with a riveting leading character who will capture your heart.

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Last Holiday is a rather lame remake of an old Alec Guiness comedy that stars Queen Latifah as Georgia Byrd, a department store employee who finds out she's dying and decides to travel to Europe and blow all her money, not knowing her fantasy man/fellow employee (LL Cool J)has been fantasizing about her as much as she's been thinking about him.

This film is so predictable that I could practically recite the dialogue along with the actors. Queen Latifah works very hard at making her Plain Jane character funny and believable, but her performance comes off as forced and annoying. LL Cool J shows solid leading man potential in a thankless role that's a waste of his and our time.

There are plot holes you can drive a truck through, but the film does boast an impressive supporting cast including Gereard Depardieu as a world famous chef who befriends Georgia, Giancarlo Esposito as a US Senator from Georgia's hometown, who happens to be vacationing in the same European spot Georgia travels to, where she learns he is in bed with a ruthless, wealthy businessman (a surprisingly effective Timothy Hutton, cleverly cast against type), who is also dealing with a very discontent mistress (Alicia Witt). There's some gorgeous scenery and the supporting cast is fun; however, unless you're a hardcore Queen Latifah fan, I'd pass on this one.

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