PeterG
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I think I'm one day off on which day I saw what. This darned heat, I tell ya, it's effectin' me brain!!
So yesterday I watched three movies.
First up was An American Crime. It's a 2007 drama starring Catherine Keener and Elliot Page (working then as Ellen Page). The movie is based on a true story, set in the mid 60s when a carnival worker persuades his wife to go on the road with him to take money. They agree to let a neighbourhood woman look after their two young teenage girls. But the woman who takes in these kids (Keener) is struggling with mental health issue and things go from bad to worse. This movie has a 7.3 rating on imdb.com, which is very high. Similarly, on rottentomates.com, the audience rates it as 74% fresh...but the critics rate it as 38% rotten. I felt the movie was like a well-done TV movie of the week, with some exceptional cast members bringing up the quality of the movie. I'd recommend this one for people who are fans of the two leads or who like true crime movies.
Trailer for An American Crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyBaKL1FlE
P.S. Someone has uploaded An American Crime to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDYA1ESLuRY
The second movie was Too Many Husbands, a 1940 romantic comedy starring the radiant Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray (TV's My Three Sons) and Melvyn Douglas, who won an Oscar in 1964 for Hud and in 1980 for Being There. Douglas plays a bit of a neurotic, fidgety character in this, but I found as the movie progressed, I found him more and more attractive. I ended up chatting with a friend while watching this as I realized early on that I had seen it before, but must have forgotten to delete it from my To See list. But the three leads are all wonderful, and I did laugh a few times even though I had seen this one before.
No trailer for Too Many Husbands at youtube (individual scenes are), but if the full movie is also n youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pj4oVx4Is
The third film of the day was a Netflix original called Run, a thriller starring Sarah Paulson. This is a good scary popcorn flick, Sarah Paulson always picks quality material to work with. It's a good watch, but it's one of those movie that as we are more honest as a society about mental health matters, this movie comes off with a bit of a bad taste, like when you watch an old movie with a stereotypical performance by a black actor or an 80's movie with an over-the-top flamboyant gay man that not just doesn't sit well. But if you can overlook this aspect of the movie, it's worth seeing.
Trailer for Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dhh7q9Us5c
So yesterday I watched three movies.
First up was An American Crime. It's a 2007 drama starring Catherine Keener and Elliot Page (working then as Ellen Page). The movie is based on a true story, set in the mid 60s when a carnival worker persuades his wife to go on the road with him to take money. They agree to let a neighbourhood woman look after their two young teenage girls. But the woman who takes in these kids (Keener) is struggling with mental health issue and things go from bad to worse. This movie has a 7.3 rating on imdb.com, which is very high. Similarly, on rottentomates.com, the audience rates it as 74% fresh...but the critics rate it as 38% rotten. I felt the movie was like a well-done TV movie of the week, with some exceptional cast members bringing up the quality of the movie. I'd recommend this one for people who are fans of the two leads or who like true crime movies.
Trailer for An American Crime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyBaKL1FlE
P.S. Someone has uploaded An American Crime to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDYA1ESLuRY
The second movie was Too Many Husbands, a 1940 romantic comedy starring the radiant Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray (TV's My Three Sons) and Melvyn Douglas, who won an Oscar in 1964 for Hud and in 1980 for Being There. Douglas plays a bit of a neurotic, fidgety character in this, but I found as the movie progressed, I found him more and more attractive. I ended up chatting with a friend while watching this as I realized early on that I had seen it before, but must have forgotten to delete it from my To See list. But the three leads are all wonderful, and I did laugh a few times even though I had seen this one before.
No trailer for Too Many Husbands at youtube (individual scenes are), but if the full movie is also n youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pj4oVx4Is
The third film of the day was a Netflix original called Run, a thriller starring Sarah Paulson. This is a good scary popcorn flick, Sarah Paulson always picks quality material to work with. It's a good watch, but it's one of those movie that as we are more honest as a society about mental health matters, this movie comes off with a bit of a bad taste, like when you watch an old movie with a stereotypical performance by a black actor or an 80's movie with an over-the-top flamboyant gay man that not just doesn't sit well. But if you can overlook this aspect of the movie, it's worth seeing.
Trailer for Run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dhh7q9Us5c
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