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Reviews
A Walk on the Moon (1999)
Terrific movie!
This sweet, true and touching movie recreated the summer of 1969 for me. I loved the attention to detail: clothing, dialect, and the music! Diane Lane was great as a woman searching for herself. No heroes or villains, nor violence - just a little film about a family during a chaotic period.
Fight Club (1999)
David Fincher - overrated, or just not talented?
What a pretentious and loathsome movie! Cultural anthropologists are surely having a good laugh at this film's notion that men are only true to their nature when they are violent. The fact that this trash will make money is a sad comment on our society. As pitiful and horrifying as the "Tough Man" contests are, THEY are more entertaining than this dreck! In addition, Brad Pitt is a real stiff, and why was he wearing Ratso Rizzo's clothing?
Little Voice (1998)
Surprisingly good!
My wife and I loved this film! We had avoided renting it, because we felt that it was to be one more quirky British film with nothing more to offer than odd characters and undecipherable local dialects. We were really shocked to find out how stylish, moving, and hilarious Little Voice was! Michael Caine was marvelous as a tacky and desperate has-been agent (with the exception of his out-of-character violent behavior at the end). Not since Slap Shot has profanity been as hilarious - Brenda Blethyn's language was shockingly funny, and she made a nasty and selfish character sympathetic. Jane Horrock's talent is phenomenal and almost surreal, and she created a character for whom we really cared. Rent this movie!
Her Last Chance (1996)
pretty good portrait of a recovery process
I liked this movie. Kellie Martin was believable in the lead role, and the portrayal of her struggles with peer pressure was also credible.
I found the plot development about the death of the obnoxious boyfriend (he WAS a stupid, selfish jerk!) and subsequent criminal investigation to be unnecessary and a distraction from the main point of the movie, which was how difficult it is to get and stay sober in high school, while all of your peers continue to drink and use drugs. However, even with this distraction, I felt that this was a good movie.
The MatchMaker (1997)
Sweet, funny and romantic
Anonymous from Santa Cruz is way, way, off the mark. People in small towns in Ireland ARE this quaint and odd, and really DO use the word, "bollocks" lots! They are drawn as caricatures in The Matchmaker, but hardly in such broad, crass shapes as almost any American film (anything with Jim Carrey except for The Truman Show, for example). Was this as great a film as Local Hero? - certainly not, but it stands on its own feet as a nice, sweet, romantic film with a rare happy ending. The only negative I perceived was Janeane Garofalo's tendency to play too cynical and sarcastic a character, but even that was a great comic contrast to the simple Irish locals.