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Director: Will Geiger
Writer: Will Geiger
Cast: Blake Lively, Max Minghella, Joe Mantegna
Genre: Drama, Romance
Anabelle (Blake Lively) is a local beauty queen with a bossy stage mother (Mary Steenburegen) who's hell bent on making her daughter the next Miss Texas Rose at what ever the cost. She pushes her and pushes her, and when Anabella goes to vomit to make her tummy flatter, she flat out dies after winning the crown. She ends up dead and in a small town mortuary run out of a run down old house by Elvis, no not that Elvis. This Elvis (Max Minghella) is an embittered lonely young man who's a misfit and hates everything around him including himself, except his father (Joe Mantana) who he loves and takes care of. The problems start when he falls in love with the dead beauty queen, who awakens on the table and has no idea where she is. CR
Blake Lively makes this movie special! She shines in this. I've said this before buy Blake has real star quality potential. If only she could land herself in a great film, I thing she would be one of the top stars working. This movie, ain't great, but it's still got a lot going for it.
Elvis and Anabelle is a small Indie film, the type that didn't get a big theater release and so is not well known today. It starts out with a rather catchy, albeit dark song that seems to set the tone of the film. But don't be fooled, as the film goes along the light creeps in and just maybe love will save the day.
Oh that's Keith Carradine as the step dad who's suppose to be a creep when he's drunk, only we never see that, but Anabelle does say that to Elvis.
I do have one complaint, and that is Max Minghella's character. Max is probably a good actor but he's ill suited to this movie. I'm talking zero chemistry with Blake. He plays his character so damn negative, that he made Oscar Levant look like a charmer....Which is sad, as if another actor had been hired that could do both lonely outcast and likable underdog, then this movie might have been a cult classic. Thus helping the effervescent Blake Lively to go onto bigger and better things. But as it is Max Minghella's character is such a weird downer that you don't want him to wind up with the down to earth beauty queen.
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Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
Writer: Will Geiger
Cast: Blake Lively, Max Minghella, Joe Mantegna
Genre: Drama, Romance
Anabelle (Blake Lively) is a local beauty queen with a bossy stage mother (Mary Steenburegen) who's hell bent on making her daughter the next Miss Texas Rose at what ever the cost. She pushes her and pushes her, and when Anabella goes to vomit to make her tummy flatter, she flat out dies after winning the crown. She ends up dead and in a small town mortuary run out of a run down old house by Elvis, no not that Elvis. This Elvis (Max Minghella) is an embittered lonely young man who's a misfit and hates everything around him including himself, except his father (Joe Mantana) who he loves and takes care of. The problems start when he falls in love with the dead beauty queen, who awakens on the table and has no idea where she is. CR
Blake Lively makes this movie special! She shines in this. I've said this before buy Blake has real star quality potential. If only she could land herself in a great film, I thing she would be one of the top stars working. This movie, ain't great, but it's still got a lot going for it.
Elvis and Anabelle is a small Indie film, the type that didn't get a big theater release and so is not well known today. It starts out with a rather catchy, albeit dark song that seems to set the tone of the film. But don't be fooled, as the film goes along the light creeps in and just maybe love will save the day.
Oh that's Keith Carradine as the step dad who's suppose to be a creep when he's drunk, only we never see that, but Anabelle does say that to Elvis.
I do have one complaint, and that is Max Minghella's character. Max is probably a good actor but he's ill suited to this movie. I'm talking zero chemistry with Blake. He plays his character so damn negative, that he made Oscar Levant look like a charmer....Which is sad, as if another actor had been hired that could do both lonely outcast and likable underdog, then this movie might have been a cult classic. Thus helping the effervescent Blake Lively to go onto bigger and better things. But as it is Max Minghella's character is such a weird downer that you don't want him to wind up with the down to earth beauty queen.
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