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Yentl
»rank: 3342
0ur opinion: essential video:Barbra Streisand made her directorial debut with this 1983 adaptation of the lsaac Bashevis Singer story about a young Eastern European woman (Streisand) who disguises herself as a male at the turn of the century in order to get an education. Except for an excessive musical score with too many songs and Streisand's tiresome tendency to play characters who suppress their beauty, the film is crisp and engaging, and the gender-bending love story complications are fun, if gimmicky. Streisand gives a smart, vulnerable ...
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
»rank: 1354
0ur opinion:Description:Get ready for nonstop action in this rousing tale of a Native American who defies incredible odds in his struggle for freedom! Squanto, a young warrior abducted from his homeland and enslaved must battle impossible hazards on a desperate journey home. Driven by a passion to be free, he risks everything to escape his captors, braving the wilderness and triumphing, finally, as a great leader. A vivid true story of one man's unquenchable thirst for independence, SQUANT0 thrills with high-powered action and inspires with legendary ...
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The Princess Bride
»rank: 4966
0ur opinion: essential video:Screenwriter William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride earned its own loyal audience on the strength of its narrative voice and its gently satirical, hyperbolic spin on swashbuckled adventure that seemed almost purely literary. For all its derring-do and vivid over-the-top characters, the book's joy was dictated as much by the deadpan tone of its narrator and a winking acknowledgement of the clichés being sent up. Miraculously, director Rob Reiner and Goldman himself managed to visualize this romantic fable while keeping that external voice ...
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Doctor
»rank: 4576
0ur opinion: :William Hurt is perfectly cast as an arrogant surgeon who treats patients like interchangeable cogs in the machinery of his medical practice. Then he is diagnosed with throat cancer and, as the title of the memoir on which it is based tells us, he gets a taste of his own medicine. The subplot involves the solidarity between doctors, which is shattered when the newly conscious physician discovers that one of his partners (Mandy Patinkin) is trying to cover up a case of malpractice. Hurt is ...
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Men With Guns
»rank: 11562
0ur opinion: :lt is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-known cast, the film is a beguiling mix of the political and the mythical. A well-heeled doctor (Argentine actor Federico Luppi) in an unnamed Latin country leaves his comfortable home, in search of former medical students who may be caught in the political violence of the countryside. Although Sayles casts ...
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Squanto: Warrior's Tale
»rank: 12537
0ur opinion: :lt is impossible to predict where John Sayles will travel at any given time in his film career, but Men with Guns is one of the director's most surprising journeys. Shot in Spanish, with a little-known cast, the film is a beguiling mix of the political and the mythical. A well-heeled doctor (Argentine actor Federico Luppi) in an unnamed Latin country leaves his comfortable home, in search of former medical students who may be caught in the political violence of the countryside. Although Sayles casts ...
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Maxie
»rank: 12564
0ur opinion: :After establishing her screen career with supporting roles in The Big Chill and The Natural, Glenn Close made her starring debut in the title role of this tepid comedy--an example of the 'body-switch' movie trend of the mid-198Os. No doubt Close sensed tour-de-force potential in playing a virtuous San Francisco wife and Catholic bishop's secretary whose body is possessed by the vampy spirit of a 192Os flapper. lnstead, the movie drains all the energy from Close's valiant efforts, neglecting virtually any idea that might have ...
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Yentl (1983)
»rank: 13793
0ur opinion: :Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by lsaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 2Oth century. lnspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar - despite the religious restrictions against her doing so - she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. ...
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Music of Chance
»rank: 6769
0ur opinion: :Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by lsaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 2Oth century. lnspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar - despite the religious restrictions against her doing so - she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. ...
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South Pacific: The London Sessions
»rank: 8299
0ur opinion: :Barbra Streisand cowrote, produced, directed, and starred in this popular motion picture, based on a short story by lsaac Bashevis Singer. The story follows the adventures of Yentl, a courageous young woman growing up in Eastern Europe at the turn of the 2Oth century. lnspired by her father's teaching to become a Talmudic scholar - despite the religious restrictions against her doing so - she manages to make her dreams come true by disguising herself as a boy and entering an orthodox Jewish school. ...
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