First Daughter

Starring:Dwayne Adway, Alex Avant, Marc Blucas, Andrew Caple-Shaw, Piper Cochrane, Margaret Colin, Adam Donshik, Hollis Hill (II), Katie Holmes, Michael Keaton, Barry Livingston, Michael Milhoan, Ken Moreno, Lela Rochon, Amerie Rogers, Parry Shen, Steve Tom, Damon Whitaker, Peter White
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Product Description

To know Lloyd Dobler is to love him. Diane Court is about to know Lloyd Dobler.

In this charming, critically acclaimed tale of first love, Lloyd (John Cusack), an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student (Ione Skye). He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's over-possessive, divorced dad (John Mahoney) doesn't approve and it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.

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Starring John Cusack, John Mahoney, Ione Skye

Directed by Cameron Crowe

Running time: 113 minutes

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Seven years after he earned his first screen credit as the writer of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, former Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe made his directorial debut with this acclaimed romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Ione Skye as unlikely lovers on the cusp of adulthood. The casting is perfect, and Crowe's rookie direction is appropriately unobtrusive, no doubt influenced by his actor-loving, Oscar®-winning mentor, James L. Brooks. But the real strength of Crowe's work is his exceptional writing, his timely grasp of contemporary rhythms and language (he's frequently called "the voice of a generation"), and the rich humor and depth of his fully developed characters. In Say Anything... Cusack and Skye play recent high school graduates enjoying one final summer before leaping into a lifetime of adult responsibilities. Lloyd (Cusack) is an aspiring kickboxer with no definite plans; Diane (Skye) is a valedictorian with intentions to further her education in Europe. Together they find unlikely bliss, but there's also turbulence when Diane's father (John Mahoney)--who only wants what's best for his daughter--is charged with fraud and tax evasion. Favoring strong performances over obtrusive visual style, Crowe focuses on his unique characters and the ambitions and fears that define them; the movie's a treasure trove of quiet, often humorous revelations of personality. Lili Taylor and Eric Stoltz score high marks for memorable supporting roles, and Cusack's own sister Joan is perfect in scenes with her onscreen and offscreen brother. A rare romantic comedy that's as funny as it is dramatically honest, Say Anything... marked the arrival of a gifted writer-director who followed up with the underrated Singles before scoring his first box-office smash with Jerry Maguire. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

fabulous dvd and movie.......2007-06-27

I actually just caught the movie on Encore the other week, and it was excellent. I thought the commentary was really interesting, and the special features were pretty good too!

I LOVE IT.......2007-06-08

John Cusack gives an amazing performance. You can't help but fall in love with Lloyd Dobler. The movie is funny, engaging and completely romantic. The ending is perfect and if you are a hopeless romantic, you MUST see this movie.

"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen".......2007-05-14

Every time I watch Say Anything I love it a little bit more. I don't know what it is. The loner guy who aims a bit too high in hoping that the class valedictorian will be the one for him. The perfect girl who can only reveal her insecurities around the guy who no one can imagine her with. The daddy's girl who learns her father isn't as perfect as she always believed. All of which are elements of teen film that have been done to death, but there's something about Say Anything, maybe that it came before all those other played-out teen films that tried so hard to be like it. Maybe John Cusack and Ione Skye's innocent portrayals of young love. Whatever it is, this is a movie that only gets better with time. Even if you've already seen this movie, I'd highly suggest watching it again. Like a fine wine, this film only gets better with age.

Absolutely fantastic love story.......2007-02-07

Okay, kids. First, PLEASE stop calling this an '80s movie. It's not - it may have been released in 1989, but it's a prototypical '90s movie. In fact, it may arguably be the first of the pack of young-disenfranchised-Gen X-teens-looking-for-love movies that typified the early '90s (see also: "Singles," "Reality Bites," etc. ).

For those of you who are too young to have seen this movie when it first came out, you can't begin to understand the effect it had on its target audience. It's about as seminal as the John Hughes/Molly Ringwald movies were to the '80s (THOSE are typical '80s movies). It's a brilliant treatise on teen angst in the early '90s, when people spent a lot of time weighing socially-conscious, indie "slackerdom" against more conventional (and lucrative) "sell-out" paths.

This is also the first teen movie I can remember seeing where the leads behaved like actual people - nothing contrived or jokey. The romance seemed normal (or, okay, maybe a little bit better than normal - that scene where Lloyd holds up a boombox outside Diane's window is iconic for a reason) and believable.

I guess some aspects of this movie probably seem a little dated or difficult to understand for people who didn't grow up then. However, for my money, this is one of the most honest, thoughtful, and enjoyable contemplations of love and angst in the Grunge Era.

My favorite teen movie!!.......2006-11-09

I rented Say Anything from the library because I heard what good ratings it was getting from both people and critics. I could see why they thought the way they did about this film, it truly is sweet to watch. John Cusack does well playing the cool Lloyd Dobler as well the beautiful Ione Skye as valedictorian Diane Court. It is a very good movie about true love between two different high school graduates, one who is valedictorian of the class and the other a famous kickboxer. Say Anything is probably Cameron Crowe's best film with Jerry Maguire coming in dead second, thats how good it is. Its a teen comedy film with substance, intelligence and feeling that I just had to go out and buy the DVD. Forget all the brat pack films, Say Anything is the best you'll ever find.

8 Simple Rules - The Complete First Season

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Two sitcom veterans,one great sitcom!
Great Show, Great Season and nice price...
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8 Simple Rules - The Complete First Season
Starring: John Ritter , and Katey Sagal
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
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ASIN: B000QFCDAO
Release Date: 2007-08-07

Description

Legendary sitcom stars John Ritter and Katey Sagal team up in 8 Simple Rules, ABC's hit family comedy that is laugh-out-loud funny. "If you make my daughters cry, I'll make you cry." That is the rallying cry of Paul Hennessy. A little rusty in the parenting department, Paul is forced to meet fatherhood head-on when his wife Cate returns to work. Two teenage daughters and a wisecracking son make Paul's new situation daunting but never dull. Cybill Shepherd, Jason Priestley and Terry Bradshaware just some of the guest stars joining the fun in Season One. Experience all 28 episodes, plus exclusive bonus features, including a hilarious bonus reel, in this sensational 3-disc set.

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Two sitcom veterans,one great sitcom!.......2007-06-12

Yes,two sitcom veterans,Katey Sagal("Married...With Children) and the late John Ritter("Three's Company","Three's A Crowd","Hearts Afire") make this great but short-lived sitcom entitled 8 SIMPLE RULES FOR DATING MY TEENAGE DAUGHTER. Ritter is Paul Hennessy,a sportswriter who is a loving and protective father of two girls,age 16 and 11 or 12. The girls' mother is Paul's wife Cate(Sagal). Paul just typically warns boyfriends to treat his elder daughter with care. This ABC sitcom premiered on Ritter's 54th birthday,September 17,2002. Ritter has many other September family events,those being his widow Amy Yasbeck's birthday on the 12th,their daughter Stella's birthday on the 11th(Ritter succumbed to a sudden heart ailment on Stella's fourth birthday in 2003) and Ritter's and Yasbeck's wedding anniversary on the 18th(they were married one week after Stella's birth). Many remember Ritter's portrayal of Jack Tripper on TC and its not-too-popular spinoff TAC(both ABC alumni). Many also remember Sagal's portrayal of the gorgeous but lazy housewife Peggy Bundy on MWC,Fox's inaugural series that ran from 1987 to 1997. Ritter died just after this sitcom's second season began production at the Burbank,California hospital he was born in in 1948. That hospital stands across from the studio where 8SRFDMTD was taped. After Ritter's death,writers had Paul dropping dead of a heart attack while grocery shopping. Many viewers believed that the show wasn't too great without Ritter. That's probably why the show got the Nielsen axe after 2004-05. Throughout the series,several respective castmates of Ritter's and Sagal's guest starred such as Ed O'Neill and the late Don Knotts. I dedicate this item to the memory of Ritter.

Great Show, Great Season and nice price..........2007-06-11

I am so happy that 8 simple Rules is finally being released to DVD on 8/07/07 and season 1 is defintely one of my favorites out of all 3 hillarious seasons. I loved John Ritter in "Three's Company" and I think his roll in "8 Simple Rules is just as funny and a must own set. I was quite shocked at the low $17.99 price for this set and I would definitely pre-order it while the price is still good with all of the online market place sales that are going on right now temporarily.

Paul (John Ritter) died off of the show as well as in real life in the beggining of season 2 and I find some of the episodes very sad because I knew that he would no longer be in the following seasons. There was a special two part show entitled "Goodbye in season 2 for the loss of John Ritter. After that, there was a few following episodes that dealt with the family coping with their loss and the stress of the children losing there father. I thought that the show would never be the same after that but it quickly picked back up pace, in which the show survived until after the third season and then came to an end. I did miss John Ritter after he was no longer part of the cast but the show continued with great hillarious episodes and I think that the other seasons did remarkably well.

Buy and enjoy season 1 because John Ritter is on all of these shows and is so fun to watch. His memory through his comedic work is still with us and is here to be watched and enjoyed for all time. Here is a complete list of all 28 episodes that will be included with this set, including the rare pilot that started it all!

1. Pilot (Pilot)
2. Wall Of Shame
3. Bridget's First Job
4. Wings
5. Son-In-law
6. Cheerleader
7. Trick Or Treehouse
8. By The Book
9. Two Boys For Every Girl
10. Give It Up
11. Paul Meets His Match
12. All I Want for Christmas
13. Rory's Got a girlfriend
14. Carrer Choices
15. Kerry's Big Adventure
16. Come and Knock on Our Door
17. Drummer Boy Part(1)
18. Drummer Boy Part(2)
19. Cool Parent
20. Every Picture Tells a Story
21. Kerry's Video
22. Good Moms Gone Wild
23. Career Women
24. Queen Bees and King Bees
25. Bake Sale
26. The Doyle Wedding
27. Sort of an Officer and a Gentleman part(1)
28. Sort of an Officer and a Gentleman part(2)

Enjoy!

Cool Series.......2007-05-19

this is my favourite series. but only this season.
john ritter is priceless no matter what he did...
and in this season he was just gold. r.i.p John.
and this series is good enough with the other actors.
i love it. saw it all, but i'm ready to see it again on dvd :D:D

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Sensual and tragic
The Virgin Suicides
A bit obscure...
I Didn't Get It
virgin suicides

The Virgin Suicides
Starring: Danny DeVito , Kirsten Dunst , Scott Glenn , Michael Paré , and Jonathan Tucker
Director: Sofia Coppola
Manufacturer: Paramount
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Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured, and in adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Coppola demonstrates the sensitivity and emotional depth that this material demands. Surely the pain of youth and public criticism found its way into her directorial voice; in the story of four sisters who self-destruct under the steady erosion of their youthful ideals, one can clearly sense Coppola's intimate connection to the inner lives of her characters.

Played in a delicate minor key, the film is heartbreaking, mysterious, and soulfully funny, set in a Michigan suburb of the mid-1970s but timeless and universal to anyone who's been a teenager. The four surviving Lisbon sisters lost a sibling to suicide, and as its title suggests, the film will chart their mutual course to oblivion under the vigilance of repressive parents (Kathleen Turner and James Woods, perfectly cast). But The Virgin Suicides is more concerned with life in that precious interlude of adolescence, when the Lisbon girls are worshipped by the neighborhood boys, their notion of perfection epitomized by Lux (Kirsten Dunst) and her storybook love for high-school stud Trip (Josh Hartnett). Unfolding at the cusp of innocence and sexual awakening, and recalled as a memory, The Virgin Suicides is, ultimately, about the preservation of the Lisbon sisters by their own deaths--suspended in time, polished to perfection, and forever untainted by adulthood. --Jeff Shannon

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Sensual and tragic.......2007-06-12

I've been hypnotized by this film from the moment it came out, and by the book before it.
Eugenides' novel reads like a series of glimpses into the mystery that is (or was) the Lisbon girls. I think Sofia Coppola does a wonderful job of transferring that humid, dreamy atmosphere to film.
There is a danger that because the film is so delicate it may float away, but the soundtrack keeps it anchored; in particular, the use of Heart songs throughout the Lux and Trip love affair.
Kathleen Turner is great as Mrs. Lisbon, making her human and making the audience feel for her even as she puts her four daughters in lockdown.
Kirsten Dunst, of whom I am a fan, is pitch-perfect as Lux, struggling with womanhood in the stifling atmosphere of the Lisbon household. I think it is best expressed when Lux conducts various affairs on the roof. She rebels even though she is virtually tied to the house. Kirsten Dunst pulls it off with a subtlety one can also see in films like Interview with the Vampire and Marie Antoinette, another film by Sofia Coppola.
This film is definitely worth seeing over and over again. Check it out!

The Virgin Suicides.......2007-06-10

I read the book about two months before I saw the movie. I read the book over and over again, asking the same question that the confused teenaged boys did in the story: Why? Now, they never figured it out, and did not intend to, seeing as how the fantasy of the five sisters was more important than the questions of reality. However, unlike the neighborhood boys, I thought I'd missed something. A word, a phrase, a motif that went unnoticed. I figured out that I hadn't missed anything, and was partially put off by the fact that I couldn't find a concrete explanation.

After seeing this film, I understand a little more than I did when reading the book. Ms. Coppola takes direction of an already concrete literary work, and changes perspective so that the things that cannot be explained are at least felt in some manner. The book focuses on the boys perspective ( which is the fantasy focus of the book)just enough to make readers wonder more about the girls. Sofia, shifts that just enough, not to lose the dreamy fantasy quality, but to layer it on top of the reality. We understand and feel the boys' desire becoming something that resembles a dream/fantasy, but we also get into the girls' minds just enough to take the edge off of the desire to know why. We are in the room with all five of them as they listen on the telephone trying to reach out to a world that they've been snatched out of ( in the book, we get more of a view of the condition of the lawn, the fact that no one leaves to go to the store, but has grocery delivered, etc.). We see the sun rise and set as the days go by, knowing that the sisters can only watch from a window. Those small moments, that feed the story from a different angle, make this movie great. Its delicately crafted direction and touch of feminine perspective makes the movie something you can watch without fear of another book-turned-movie catastrophe.

A bit obscure..........2007-05-10

Though the book was a best-seller, I'm not sure why. It seems the theme of the book and the movie made based on it is a bit obscure. Of course, that could just be the genius of Mr. Eugenides. I enjoyed the book much more than the movie, though I say that about most "based on the novel by _____" books. It is more or less about the growing rates of suicide among teenagers, especially teenage girls, and the reactions of people in small communities. I believe it is more about the people surrounding the girls than the girls themselves, but we obviously cannot discredit the importance the message the girls are trying to convey about living in a strict household and being cut off from society. I believe it is a statement about physical alienation as it is alienation within the mundane "everydayness" the neighborhood they live in portrays. I gave the movie a 4, though I give the book a 5. I think Jeffrey Eugenides is giving us an important message, but many of us dont know where to look...

I Didn't Get It.......2007-04-10

My wife recommended this movie one night, so we watched it together. She had seen it a few times before and really enjoyed it. Me.. well, I didn't get it. The movie revolves around the adolescent lust a couple of boys have for these sisters. The sisters' mother is a religious freak and when one of the sisters commits suicide, the already whacked mother gets even worst and eventually puts the remaining sisters in lockdown. meaning, she takes them out of school, burns all their rock records, and basically cuts off what very little social lives they had. Eventually, they all make good on the title and off themselves.

Now, while the acting in the movie is great, which is why I gave it 2 stars, I think the story is really lacking. My biggest complaint is there is 5 sisters. We get to know the 2 youngest, 'cecilia' and kirsten dunst character 'lux,' but the other 3 sisters are just kinda there. So really, why should anyone care if they're dead or alive? They don't really add anything to the story. We also see 'cecilia's' ghost on a few occassions. Why? I don't know. Seemed unnecessary to me. In my opinion, in good story telling, if you show it, you should use it. For example, in an action/adventure movie, if a character shows a gun, that character should use that gun or what would be the point in showing it to begin with. Same here, only with 'cecilia's' ghost. It served no purpose. The other thing I didn't understand was why the girls commit suicide and why they invited the boys over as they were doing it. Made no sense at all.

While I'm very much aware that Hollywood takes liberties often with source material, I think this story could have been MUCH better. It didn't need 5 sisters. All it needed was 2. It'd been much more interesting to watch Kirsten Dunst's character morning the loss of 'Cecilia,' perhaps being haunted by her memory and maybe causing her to have a strained relationship with her parents, boyfriend, and friends, ultimately ending in her own suicide than what The Virgin Suicides gives us. So, I cannot recommend this movie as it's a total waste of screentime.

virgin suicides.......2007-03-11

My family and i enjoy watching Kirsten Dunst movies, we think shes a terrific actress. We enjoyed the plot of sisters sticking together. Thank you the movie was in excellent condition..

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Cute movie
unpredictable! refreshing!
Well, I Need More Romance, Not Katie's Dancing and Sliding
This movie was awful.
A Favorite

First Daughter
Starring: Dwayne Adway , Alex Avant , Marc Blucas , Andrew Caple-Shaw , and Piper Cochrane
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ASIN: B0006GAOCW
Release Date: 2005-01-25

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Playing the president's kin in the modern fairy tale First Daughter is the most grown-up role yet for Dawson's Creek cutie Katie Holmes. Samantha McKenzie (Holmes) has lived all her life on the edge of the political spotlight, but she hopes that she'll get away from it all when she leaves the White House for college. No such luck. Even though she's able to make friends with her roommate (singer Amerie) and meet a nice guy (Marc Blucas), security is tight in an election year, and the Secret Service follows her wherever she goes. First Daughter isn't particularly original (it was the working title for Mandy Moore's Chasing Liberty, which opened in theaters earlier the same year, 2004), but it's a chuckle-inducing girlie movie that's worth watching for Holmes. Also, Michael Keaton is especially likable as a president and dad. That's a big change for Holmes, who as Dawson's Creek's Joey Potter was a poster child for daughters with dysfunctional fathers. --David Horiuchi

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"Once Upon A Time there lived a lovely girl named Samantha. She had everything she could possibly wish for, and lived in a beautiful white house. The White House Katie Holmes stars as First Daughter Samantha Mackenzie _ a sheltered young woman who just wants a normal school experience, away from the influence of her parents. Only trouble is, her dad (Michael Keaton) is the President of the United States! But nothing will stop Samantha, so, under Secret Service surveillance and a nonstop media glare, she meets _ and falls hard for _ a handsome student who has a secret existence of his own."

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Cute movie.......2007-05-06

Katie Holmes plays Samantha, a young girl who happpens to be the President's daughter and has no freedom. She wants a life as a normal college student, but that proves to be impossible with a bunch of secret service men following her around everywhere. Samantha wishes for more freedom. When she meets a handsome college student named James, she gets her wish. The sneak out together, and go to the movies and to a fair. Samantha is wildly happy and feels like she is living for the first time. She just wants to break free from her parents and grow up. But it's hard because the media is always following her around, writing about everything she does in college even though she's just trying to have fun. Samantha makes a new friend, her dorm roomate Mia and she falls in love with James. But James has a secret of his own. I like the ending, when she drives off back to college under the night sky and how a brazen little girl grew up in a white house but it wasn't until she left that house, however, did she truly find home. At last, Samantha got her wish and she was free. Freedom is such a wonderful thing. I can't wait to go off to college and be on my own, too. It's really more about being indepedent and about being free then it is about some love romance between two people. Forest Whittaker is a genuis director, and I love his other work, "Hope Floats." Katie Holmes is a good actress and very sweet and cute. But it's too bad she married that weird little man Tom Cruise and had a baby with him. Tom Cruise is so short and ugly. What could possibly anyone see in him? He's so, well, weird. But hopefully she'll come to her senses and divorce him. And, at 28, is way too young to be a stepmother to his two children. Those aren't even his real children. They're adopted, along with Nicole Kidman. So, I like watching Katie onscreen, but in real life the girl has to come to senses.

unpredictable! refreshing!.......2007-04-25

To be perfectly honest, after the first hour I thought I had the whole movie figured out... and then it twisted in the opposite direction and I was totally shocked!
Katie Holmes plays Samantha MacKenzie, the President's Daughter who is trying to fit in and have a normal college experience. Only there are some things in her way, such as security guards following her everywhere, press close on her tail, and she just can't get rid of her White House mannerisms that kinda make everyone around her flinch and go "what was that?" Amerie plays her roommate Mia who is used to lots of attention and has trouble letting it go. Seemingly perfect timing, Sam meets her perfect guy (Marc Blucas playing James)... a little too perfect at first, as they are both brainiacs, kind, funny and well, he's crazy about her. It seems everything is going to work out perfectly! I was almost disappointed when the movie twisted in a completely different direction!

While I was at first shocked, I quickly got over it and was pleasantly surprised and proud that the script succeeded in being unpredictable (because most movies are predictable). Then I became disappointed. It seemed the film was going steady in a good direction, and I felt kind of let down, like they could have done more, like the story could have developed into something truly charming and touching, however it seems they decided to veer away from the romance of the film and focus more on the main character's adolescance and learning about herself. It seemed to me like the movie was strolling along and then suddenly dropped off a cliff, however safely landing.
It was not unpleasant. Despite the twist, they managed to give it a cute (although almost cliff hanger) ending, and a beautiful final scene. I must admit I was slightly disappointed with the outcome between Sam and James, but I guess I can't always be satisfied!

A very entertaining film however some letdowns and [I feel] almost unnecessary twists. Nevertheless, I have no doubt you will enjoy it as I did. The script is witty and aimed more at preteens and teens then adults, as it is completely clean, and some of the jokes just won't reach adults as they are just not very funny, however I think I might have laughed at them when I was younger so it's not totally hopeless.

The acting makes up for most of these faults however, as Katie Holmes was charming and fun to watch, as was Marc Blucas who isn't exactly ugly either!

Well, I Need More Romance, Not Katie's Dancing and Sliding.......2007-03-23

I give only two stars to this Fox's romantic comedy "First Daughter" not because of its unlucky resemblance with Mandy Moore's "Chasing Liberty" or the acting of Katie Holmes, which is not bad at all. She is sweet and cute even though the film completely misses its target audiences by including her embarrassing `table dancing' sequences.

No, I am disappointed by something else. "First Daughter" is pleasant, maybe too pleasant for me. I was thinking that the film is about the romantic life of Katie Holmes' character Samantha, only daughter of US President Mackenzie (Michael Keaton) running for the second term (reminding us of the real-life counterpart George W. Bush and his twin daughters). What happens if Samantha goes to college and falls in love with another student?

Though some hints are given, the film wisely removes direct mention to the politics in real life. You don't know much about the president himself or his policies and party (except that he is very likable), but that kind of decision is understandable because the film is meant to be a romantic comedy that can be enjoyed by everyone.

Still "First Daughter" does not have much romance in it. When the film should be romantic with Samantha's romance with the resident adviser Marc Blucas, it fails to be so, its romance interrupted by the unnecessary plot twist and the film's attitude after that point, which takes itself too seriously. The silly antics like water slide episode and Katie in blue bikini do not help, and neither does the subplot about Samantha's friendship with her roommate (played by Amerie).

The film is directed by Forest Whitaker who won Oscar for his terrific acting in "The Last King of Scotland." I don't know what attracted him to this film, but I know his orthodox approach does not work here, ending up with rather tepid storytelling and bland characters. We need wit, satire, or at least biting kind of humor, and wilder romance and more imagination and fantasy. Katie Holmes is charming, but her getting drunk and doing table dance does not exactly make her so more.

This movie was awful........2006-11-16

Okay, I was actually at the video store looking for a copy of Drive Me Crazy and I found one for 26 dollars. Then I found it in a double pack with First Daughter for only 15 dollars.

I got the double pack because it was cheaper and decided to have a look at First Daughter.

I had to turn off the movie after 15 minutes. Katie Holmes's character had the personality of cardboard. She seems to spend her time walking around with a fake smile plastered on her face pretending to have fun.

These movies are always the same - rich girl wants a real life, she rebels and falls in love with some handsome guy who looks like a model, he teachs her about real life, they fall in love, they either have a fight or betray each other, then get back together at the end.

Katie Holmes bored me and so did the guy she fell in love with. I could see what was going to happen next. The whole movie was so sickly sweet I literally wanted to throw up.

I think I'll stick to Drive Me Crazy and just forget that I own this movie.

A Favorite.......2006-10-13

This movie was fantastic. It was clean, yet entertaining and endearing. I loved being able to watch it with my little sisters after buying the DVD. The twist in the plot totally surprised me, and yet pleased me. Blucas does an amazing job in this film. A breath of fresh air compared to Chasing Liberty.

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romeo must die
'Romeo + Juliet' with a happy ending...and Kung-Fu!
" The Urban rendition of Romeo and Juliet"
chemistry & charisma
certainly better than cradle 2 the grave but not as good as unleashed

Romeo Must Die
Starring: Jet Li , Delroy Lindo , Russell Wong , Isaiah Washington , and Edoardo Ballerini
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
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Release Date: 2000-08-01

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Cinematographer Andrzej Bartkowiak, the cameraman behind Speed, Lethal Weapon 4, and The Devil's Advocate, makes his directorial debut with a lively but by-the-numbers film that mixes Hong Kong action pyrotechnics with gritty urban gang drama. Jet Li stars as a jailed cop named Han who hightails it to Oakland, California, to seek revenge for the gang-related murder of his brother. What he finds, though, is a fierce war between his father's syndicate and that of Isaak O'Day (Delroy Lindo) for control of the city's precious waterfront land, as both groups are trying to make a deal with a corrupt football-team owner to build a new stadium. The political shenanigans are basically just a backdrop for the kick-ass action, and to give Li a number of enemies to lock limbs with. It also provides him with a love interest, Trish (hip-hop star Aaliyah), who's O'Day's daughter and like Han, the only straight arrow in a family of crooked mobsters. Li and Aaliyah have a teasing, gentle chemistry, and when they're onscreen together, the movie lights up and glides along smoothly. Li even finds a way to work Aaliyah into one of his action set pieces, using her arms and legs to fight a female adversary because "I can't hit a girl!" However, when these two aren't onscreen (and that's a fair amount of the time) the movie plods along, despite a stately turn by Lindo and Isaiah Washington and Russell Wong as two family allies who may not be as loyal as they seem. Li's action, though, is still phenomenal as ever, from his prison breakout (as he takes out a platoon of guards--strung upside down by one leg) to a knockdown-dragout fight with the agile and dangerously sexy Wong. And despite the Romeo and Juliet overtones, this is one mighty chaste romance, albeit one with a happy ending for the star-crossed lovers. --Mark Englehart

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They've got the guns. They've got the posse. But they've got no chance when a street-fighting ex-cop (Jet Li) takes on both sides of a fierce Oakland turf war, involving "the wildest action scenes since The Matrix!" (Bill Bregoli, Westwood One).

DVD Features:
Documentary:8 Short Documentaries (26:56)
Featurette:Making of Romeo Must Die (15:00) Behind the Scenes (14:03)
Music Video:Aaliyah's "Try Again" video (3:40) Making of Aaliyah's "Try Again" music video (4:11) Aaliyah/DMX "Come Back In One Piece" video (3:42)
Other:Inside the Visual Effects Process (3:52) "Diary of a (Legal) Mad Bomber" (5:07) "Anatomy of a Stunt" (7:12) "The Sound Stage" (1:00)
Theatrical Trailer:Sampler

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romeo must die .......2007-01-26

i remeber when this come in the 9th grade i got change to see jet li for the frist time and Isaiah washington i already know aaliyah i grew to her
i saw her talk about this movie on rosie show i herad from my friends in school while i was in class one day nobody talk about much aaliyah was here . aaliyah did ok the movie was fake i seen his HK MOVIES HE did butt kicking than the soundtarck is better aaliyah did well on try again. buy ounce time in china or fist of lenged jet li best.

'Romeo + Juliet' with a happy ending...and Kung-Fu!.......2007-01-08

`Romeo Must Die' may not be the most original or the most entertaining martial arts film, but it's one of those movies that will please most viewers and warrant repeat viewings. Jet Li is one of my favorite martial artists and here he showcases some of his great talent in a variety of scenes. One football scene in particular stands out in my mind. The film follows Han (Li) as he escapes prison and travels to Oakland in order to avenge the gang murder of his brother Po (Jonkit Lee). When Han arrives he finds that his family is rivaling another gang run by Isaak O'Day (Delroy Lindo).

In true `Romeo + Juliet' fashion, Han strives up a liking with Trish (Aaliyah), Isaak's daughter and problems (and fights) ensue. Li does a fine job commanding this film, but it's Aaliyah who really shines and steals the thunder. Anthony Anderson is also hilarious as Trish's bodyguard Maurice, and Delroy turns it yet another commanding performance. The fight scenes are highlights, and there are plenty of them here, but look for surprise chemistry between the two leads that makes this film that much more memorable. Like I said, this is `Romeo + Juliet' with a happy ending, but that never hurt anybody!

" The Urban rendition of Romeo and Juliet".......2006-06-06

There seems to be several films regarding this one. A story about corruption and property deals, a story about fathers and their children, a tentative Romeo and Juliet romance and of course martial arts and guns.

For those who like cross-culture, "Romeo Must Die", is for you! Jet Li who was fresh from "Lethal Weapon 4" really delivers in this action-packed movie. Playing Han was a big one for him. Aaliyah(1979-2001), the R&B sensation really got her acting chops in gear playing the alluring Trish O'Day, who is being shadowed by the bumbling Maurice, played by the funny, Anthony Anderson, but I personally would hoped for more of Michael Wong and less of Anthony Anderson (his constant 'Dim Sum' refrain being quite irritating) but the actors act, the plot moves and the film is enjoyable enough.

I'd enjoyed the X-ray effects of the movie whenever a fight was going to happen. I liked the part when Han refused to a fight a woman, he used Trish to fight her with. It looked more of a swing dance to me. Since Trish's words backed him up, the enemy was impaled through the heart. And after the final fight, Trish's father (Delroy Lindo), wanted to meet Han for himself, and I 'm glad he got that chance, I think it was silly for him to demand a handshake from him, but hey, he wanted to who the "cat" was, and make sure he did. Han never declined any offer only to know who the troublemaker behind the "war" was.

Before anyone remember seeing Aaliyah in "Queen of the Damned" (which I personal dislike), look into this film first. I Love Jet Li, but this film is not as good as 'Kiss of the Dragon' but better than 'The One' and 'Cradle 2 the Grave' but inferior to Jet Li's Hong Kong movies.

chemistry & charisma.......2006-05-12

I really enjoyed this movie. True, some of the fight scenes can get cheesy - with too many special effects and fancy camera shots (I'm a fan of just letting 'em duke it out), but in general Jet Li's superb martial arts ability gets fully showcased. There is a very fun scene of Russell Wong and Jet Li sparring that thankfully doesn't give way to gimmicks.

Aaliyah is great. She had very good chemistry with Jet Li and you can tell they enjoyed working together, plus her songs definitely add to the soundtrack and the movie instead of being distracting (AKA Beyonce's Check on It in the Pink Panther re-make)

Isaaiah Washington is great, and while I know he's had several interviews speaking out against playing the stereotypical 'gangsta' role, he does it well here, with a smoothness not often seen.

Russell Wong is Awesome. Enough said.

In summary, it's a good movie and well worth the time and money spent. I very much recommend it.

certainly better than cradle 2 the grave but not as good as unleashed.......2006-03-07

now certainly all the action kept me more entertained than unleashed did, but the long fight scenes were just better in unleashed. Overall I would givem the same rating, but unleashed gets the edge. For a movie that should have been cut by about 10 min, still entertaining. This certainly kicks the ass of the transpoter movies.

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Am I Too Old?
A cute movie
fun movie without the political bs
Harmless and fun though unoriginal
Amazing.

Chasing Liberty (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Mandy Moore (II) , Stark Sands , Tony Jayawardena , Jeremy Piven , and Annabella Sciorra
Director: Andy Cadiff
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ASIN: B0001US8GC
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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Even when she's playing a girl with a head full of air in a plot full of holes, Mandy Moore manages to make Chasing Liberty wholesomely appealing. It's too bad that "wholesome," in this case, means frolicking around Prague, Venice, and Berlin as the U.S. President's daughter, eluding Secret Service agents, defying her second-term President father (Mark Harmon, totally miscast), and trusting complete strangers in a world where potential terrorism seems like nothing more than a pesky distraction. In other words, first daughter Anna Foster (Moore) is a complete idiot, oblivious to danger in a fluffy romantic fantasy that's part Roman Holiday (the good part) and part bubble-gum star vehicle. Don't blame Mandy for daring to shed her good-girl image; even her innocent skinnydipping scene was handled by a "butt double," and she's irresistible as she falls for the mutually smitten Secret Service agent (promising newcomer Matthew Goode) assigned to keep her out of harm's way. Another budding romance involving two bickering agents (Annabella Sciorra, Jeremy Piven) is perfunctory at best, but if you're looking for a picturesque, sweet-natured tour of Europe with a pair of likeable lovebirds, Chasing Liberty makes for a pleasantly brief vacation. --Jeff Shannon

Description

While on a diplomatic trip to Europe with her parents, first daughter Anna (Mandy Moore) escapes the secret service and meets mysterious stranger Ben Calder, who also happens to be an undercover agent.

Customer Reviews:

Am I Too Old?.......2007-05-27

I think this film was made for the teeny-bopper set and my own daughter (who was a teeny-bopper) dissed it because her set was very critical of Mandy Moore's move from singing to acting. Still, this movie was for ME. A romantic comedy with a cute male lead!

A cute movie.......2007-03-30

While the story line is pretty predictable, I do enjoy the work of Mandy Moore, she is a talented actress that contributed to this movie.

fun movie without the political bs.......2007-03-29

Chasing Liberty does exactly what it is supposed to do: it takes a look at the life of the First Daughter, without choosing political sides or trying to be "politically correct" in a world that is already far too politically correct. Regardless of whether you are a fan of Moore's musical career, it's hard not to find her dazzling as Anna, and Goode looks to have a promising future in the entertainment world. I don't know who hires these so-called "critics" that write the reviews for amazon, but clearly they don't know much about the entertainment world, since they find Moore's character to be an "idiot" to run around Europe, oblivious to terrorism. Now, maybe it's just a temporary IQ drop or something, but seems to me that a self-proclaimed "movie critic" should understand that movies are FICTION and made for ENTERTAINMENT purposes, not necessarily for realism. It's supposed to be fun. If you want to watch people running from terrorists, turn on CNN and watch the war in Iraq. If you want entertainment, ignore the so-called critics and check out Chasing Liberty.

Harmless and fun though unoriginal.......2007-02-25

Mandy Moore goes through the chick flick motions again, as "cute girl with romance problems". On this occasion, her obstacle to romance is the fact she is the President's daughter (Liberty being her Secret Service codename). So, at 18, on a trip to Europe, she escapes the secret service army protecting her, in order to experience real freedom. On the way, she enlists the help of a young English man Ben Calder, played by Mathew Goode. Her father secretly allows it, having decided that she needs to experience `controlled freedom', to get it out of her system. The safety net is that Ben Calder is actually a secret service agent the President has sworn to protect her, and never to reveal his identity.
It's formulaic and undemanding - but in fact hits all the right notes to achieve success in its given genre. Mandy Moore is cute, although she comes across more as spoilt kid than object of sympathy. Mathew Goode plays the role with manner, accent and appeal all directly descended from the Hugh Grant school of acting. Parallel to the main plot, is the more unlikely, but rather funny and more enjoyable building of romance between the two agents who are chasing Liberty across Europe, played by the always worth watching Jeremy Piven, and Annabella Sciorra.
The locations in Prague, Berlin, and especially Venice, make for some visual eye candy helping to maintain some interest for the non teenagers in the crowd.
Guys will no doubt find this schmaltzy, but if you have to watch a chick flick, then this one is better than many out there.

Amazing........2007-02-16

I'm 13 and I love this movie so much! It is really great, I usually never watch movies a second time but this time I was like watching it over and over again! Mandy Moore was amazing and Matthew Goode was too hot! I love it. I recommenced it for people of all ages!

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Another Moving Dance Scene
Great movie!!!
It's in his kiss
Very good film
Great Movie*

Mermaids
Starring: Cher , Bob Hoskins , Winona Ryder , Michael Schoeffling , and Christina Ricci
Director: Richard Benjamin
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ASIN: B0000542C7
Release Date: 2001-02-06

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In the early '60s, nomadic single mom Mrs. Flax (Cher) packs up her two daughters, Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and Kate (Christina Ricci), in a beat-up Chevy wagon and moves to small-town Massachusetts. Preteen Kate is obsessed with swimming, while 15-year-old Charlotte is searching for ways to rebel against her mom (and mom's flirty ways). The route she chooses is to become fascinated with Catholicism and all its arcane rituals, even though the family is Jewish. Her coming of age is handled with plenty of Wonder Years-style voiceovers as she fantasizes about Christ, the saints, the Pope, the Church--all things Catholic. Cracks in her religious armor begin to appear, though, in the form of a hunky local guy (Michael Schoeffling) who works at the convent. Meanwhile, her mom strikes up a romance with the town shoe-store proprietor, Lou (Bob Hoskins). Though Richard Benjamin's movie is a bit slow and tends to lose its focus somewhat in the last third, Mermaids also has fairly credible dialogue and surprisingly believable chemistry between Cher and Hoskins. The segments dealing with JFK's assassination are handled particularly well, and while Ricci's role is a rather small one, she's charming nonetheless. It's all too easy for coming-of-age movies to veer toward the maudlin, but thankfully this engaging comedy-drama seldom does. Cher, by the way, reprises her 1966 Sonny and Cher look, substituting a tight skirt and pumps for her turtleneck and fur vest. --Jerry Renshaw

Description

Cher is magical [and] electric (The Hollywood Reporter), Winona Ryder enchanting and funny (The New York Times) and Christina Ricci adorable and engaging (Variety) in this hilarious and heartwarming portrait of a 1960s single-parent family trying to adjust to each other'sgrowing independence. Charlotte (Ryder) is an adolescent girl torn between her blossoming passions for a handsome caretaker (Michael Schoeffling)...and her desire to be a nun (a tough calling for a girl who's Jewish). Complicating her already precarious teen angst is a little sister (Ricci), a determined would-be swimmer she affectionately calls fishhead, and their mother (Cher), a non-traditional, sexy, flamboyant woman who relocates them to a new town every time she causes a hint of scandalwhich is often. But even as their personal styles clash, these three incredibly different individuals begin to see that nothingnot even a life-threatening tragedycan tear apart the bonds of family.

Customer Reviews:

Another Moving Dance Scene.......2007-06-26

"Mermaids,"(1990) starring the well-known singer-actress-entertainer Cher, is another good romantic comedy that came along on the heels of the 1980s. The clarion-voiced Cher, of course, has been singing since the mid-60's, with her then-husband, Sonny Bono and without him, and has had many chart-topping hits; they had a widely popular television show in the 1970s. The actress won an Oscar for "Moonstruck," also made "Silkwood," "The Witches of Eastwood," and "Mask."

"Mermaids" is, without doubt, a chick flick. It was orignally meant to be the Scandinavian director Lasse Hallstrom's American film debut; however, Cher didn't care for his work. Neither did she care for Frank Oz's. So it was directed by former actor Richard Benjamin. Unfortunately, many sophisticates can't say "Richard Benjamin," without, in the same breath, declaring "tv sitcom." And when it's a chick flick too, well, the scorn.

The movie also stars the English Bob Hoskins, playing Lou Landsky, lusty, unlikely love interest to Cher's Mrs. Rachel Flax. The child Christina Ricci made her debut as Kate, Mrs. Flax's younger daughter, born to swim. Winona Ryder holds the camera as the older daughter, Charlotte, in heavy flirtation with Catholism although the Flaxes are Jewish. Ryder was then a child star, more particularly a teenage star, until Angelina Jolie stole "Girl Interrupted," out from under her, and she had her regrettable adventure in shoplifting. Oddly enough, the English teenage star Emily Lloyd had been signed to play this part, but she was blond. Cher, who evidently had a lot of say on this picture, thought viewers were unlikely to accept a blond as her screen daughter. So Ryder was brought in, and Lloyd received a studio settlement.

The picture's set in a lovingly recreated 1963, and treats the major world event of that year, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, with considerable discretion and grace. Mrs. Flax is a hot-blooded single mother who gets herself into talked-about trouble with men, then moves on to the next randomly-selected town. Her daughters just must get in the car. We open with the Flaxes' relocation to a pretty Massachusetts coastal town, where Mrs. Flax and, this time, her older daughter, will meet men. Kate will win swim meets.

The cinematography gives us plenty of pretty. The soundtrack's chock-a-block with early 60's hits. Included on the soundtrack, for sure, is Cher's adaptation of "The Shoop Shoop Song," initially made a hit by Little Eva; now far better known as "It's In His Kiss," by Cher. The script's witty: in an often-quoted line, Flax dismisses one of her daughter's teachers as a guy who drives an Edsel. Does "Mermaids" have the heart of a sitcom? Well, it has heart, for sure-- it's really about family. And I don't watch tv sitcoms, can't abide them, but I love this movie. The final, touching scenes, where the Flaxes dance around their kitchen, setting the table to Jimmy Soul's irresistible "If You Want to be Happy the Rest of Your Life, Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife," perfectly express the relaxed intimacy, and joy, of family life, and present us another moving, off-handed movie dance scene.

Great movie!!! .......2007-03-29

I absolutely love this movie! Such a cute one! I highly recommend it!

It's in his kiss.......2007-01-14

Mermaids is another movie based on a book I haven't read. It stars Cher, Winona Ryder, and a very young Christina Ricci. Mrs. Flax (Cher) ups her family to the east coast to start all over again. She chooses where to move based on closing her eyes and pointing at a map. Reluctantly dragged along are her daughters Charlotte (Ryder) and Kate (Ricci). Charlotte is going through a very confusing time of her life - she wants to become a nun, even though her family isn't even Catholic. Instead she falls in love with a quiet, much older handyman who works at the church. The movie is set in the early sixties and was a part of the fabric of my teenage years.

Very good film.......2006-11-01

Love Cher's character, but Winona's is by far the best. She tries to be pure but gives in to her lust for a handsome young man. Christina R's character is adorable and interesting. All characters are deeply probed and the movie is a joy to watch.

Great Movie*.......2006-01-11

This is a MUST see that will make you think laugh and even Jerk your Tears.

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Comment on "Inventing the Abbotts"
Inventing The Abbotts
Real life
Love Jennifer Connelly!
Great movie!!

Inventing the Abbotts
Starring: Liv Tyler , Joaquin Phoenix , Billy Crudup , Jennifer Connelly , and Joanna Going
Director: Pat O'Connor
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
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ASIN: B000056BSF
Release Date: 2001-03-13

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A showcase for bright young stars, Inventing the Abbotts aspires to be the kind of 1950s melodrama--like Splendor in the Grass--that was perfected by directors like Elia Kazan and Douglas Sirk. Calling on the strength of his earlier Circle of Friends, Irish director Pat O'Connor brings many of that film's admirable qualities to this similar ensemble piece (set in late-'50s Illinois), but it's held together by looser and weaker threads. And yet this tale of class division and forbidden love is sensitively written and beautifully filmed, highlighted by two young lovers at the center of an interfamilial conflict.

"Alice is the good daughter, Eleanor's the bad one, and I'm the one that just sorta gets off the hook." That's how rich girl Pam Abbott (Liv Tyler) describes herself and her older siblings (Joanna Going and Jennifer Connelly, respectively), whose father made his fortune in manufacturing. Working-class neighbor Jacey Holt (Billy Crudup) has "invented" Mr. Abbott as a villain whose wealth came at the Holts' expense and destroyed the reputation of Jacey's widowed mom (Kathy Baker in a fine but underwritten role). Jacey retaliates by callously bedding each Abbott sister in sequence, but his destructive behavior is countered by younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix), whose love for Pam is sweetly genuine. Memorable scenes abound, and the film's period design is impeccable, but sluggish pacing and filigrees of plot make Inventing the Abbotts a faint echo of its '50s predecessors. The fine cast makes it worthwhile, however, and Michael Keaton's (uncredited) narration adds another layer of retrospective charm. --Jeff Shannon

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Forbidden love and impossible dreams intertwine when the handsome working-class Holt brothers are drawn to the beautiful and wealthy Abbott sisters. Sparks fly, passion flare, and family loyalties are suddenly torn and tested against a small town backdrop of social boundaries and dark secrets. Starring Liv Tyler and an all-star cast including Joaquin Phoenix, Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly, "Inventing the Abbotts" re-invents the trials and triumphs of coming of age in a time of innocence that was anything but.

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Comment on "Inventing the Abbotts".......2007-03-11

I like the movie because Liv Tyler and Joaquin appear to be such innocent teenage lovers in the film. Billy's character seems not to be satisfied with everything surrounding him. It seems the fate is not fair to him and he envies everything the rich Abbots possess. Besides, I also like the loving mom of the two brothers very much. She is so virtuous and patient with them. Overall it is a very interesting story.

Inventing The Abbotts.......2007-02-19

Some parts of the movie drags and some of the lines are a bit verbose but overall enjoyable. H Sewell

Real life.......2007-02-07

I bought this because of Liv Tyler and Jennifer Connelly, and ended up liking the movie more than I thought I would.

Love Jennifer Connelly!.......2007-01-27

About the best thing about this movie is the gorgeous Ms. Connelly. Her scene where she teases Joaquim Phoenix with her upskirt panty shots in the high school library is the highlight of the whole movie. Her topless scene right before that is good too. Pound that pause button!

Great movie!!.......2006-12-13

This was one of the best romance movies I have ever seen. It isn't the typical type of love story. It is very different and has great actors. It can make you laugh and cry. It's starts out with two families that don't like each other much because of things that happened in the past...or what they thought happened in the past.

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About mothers and daughters
Amazing Movie
Such a good movie!
such a serious subject matter but it feels like flipping through a glossy magazine with gorgeous skinny blondes
Fails to deliver when it could have

White Oleander (Widescreen)
Starring: Alison Lohman , Michelle Pfeiffer , Robin Wright Penn , Renée Zellweger , and Amy Aquino
Director: Peter Kosminsky
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ASIN: B000087F7E
Release Date: 2003-03-11

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Fine performances and sensitive direction keep White Oleander from being a routine tearjerker. Adapted from Janet Fitch's bestseller (an Oprah's Book Club selection), this hard-edged drama boasts a reputable cast, but 23-year-old newcomer Alison Lohman steals the film from her A-list costars. As a troubled teen whose controlling mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) has been jailed for murder, Lohman is the film's heart and soul, bouncing between foster homes and rushing toward independence in a world of disappointing adults. After surviving episodic stints with a trashy born-again Christian (Robin Wright Penn), a suicidal housewife (Renée Zellweger), and a Russian immigrant (Zvetlana Efremova), she finds comfort with another outcast (Patrick Fugit), leaving behind the mothers who failed her. Making his feature directorial debut, British stage and TV veteran Peter Kosminsky creates a showcase for formidable actresses, each given moments to shine. White Oleander lacks the emotional depth of Fitch's novel, but it speaks volumes about the delicate balance of freedom and responsibility. --Jeff Shannon

Description

White Oleander chronicles the life of Astrid (Alison Lohman), a young teenager who journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) goes to prison for committing a crime of passion. Set adrift in the world, Astrid struggles to become her own person while coming to terms with the challenges of living life on her own.

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About mothers and daughters.......2007-07-04

Astrid is a young girl who lives with her mother who is an artist until her mother does something wrong is and sent to prison. Astrid is forced to live under foster care. Her first forster family is bad, her forster mother is jealous of her. Her second is better, the woman and Astrid have a great time together and bond just like a real mother and daughter. But then she dies and Astrid is back at the foster home where some dumb boy tries to be her boyfriend. She's not into him, though. Astrid has to spend her teenage years in foster homes while she makes weekly vists to her mother in jail. Her mother still tries to control Astrid's life even behind bars. She won't let Astrid grow up and Astrid starts to rebel. She dyes her hair dark, becomes goth and smokes. She tells her mother to "let her go" and that when her mother looks at her, she doesn't like what she sees. She says that she raised Astrid to think like her, but that she isn't like her mother. Her mother starts to understand and by the end of the movie, Astrid is twenty living with her boyfriend while her mother rots in jail. Astrid grew up through the tramatic youth she had, and surivied. She still knows her mother loves her, even though the audience knows her mother is really the villan and the cause of this poor young lady's problems. Alison Lohman, one of my favorite actresses, is amazing in this film and Michelle Pfeiffer plays her bad mother. Not as good as "Divine Secrets" but still entertaining.

Amazing Movie.......2007-06-11

It's a great movie. It's almost depressing though. I mean imagine going through what Astrid did. Moving from place to place without her mother which is all she's got. Haven't read the book yet, but will soon.

Such a good movie!.......2007-02-10

A haunting, draw you in, talk to people and see if they have seen it kina-movie..Its worth watching

such a serious subject matter but it feels like flipping through a glossy magazine with gorgeous skinny blondes.......2007-01-20

This movie is very easy to watch and rewatch on cable. Even in dire straits such as JAIL or foster homes, the female actresses all look beautiful especially Robin Wright Penn in the dressing room. I felt a little guilty and weirded out that this movie was such eye candy and seemed to be so glamourous when the mother and daughter were in such perilous situations. I understand that the story is about what happens to women who are both above average intelligent and beautiful.

The music cues at all the appropriate moments just like an Aerosmith song in no-acting boring action blockbusters and that really bothered me. I thought it was manipulative. I think the music was reused in a popular Korean drama to even greater effect.

Fails to deliver when it could have.......2006-09-20

This was a really excellent book that could've been a really good movie, but instead it fails in everyway possible. I know that it's never easy adapting a novel into a movie, but sometimes you can get pretty close and there is no excuse that this couldn't come close. The directors commentary even reveals that big sections of the movie were left on the cutting room floor due to the suggestion of Warner Bros. executive, Lorenzo DiBonaventura, perhaps it's time for Lorenzo to retire. We have film makers who know nothing about what will excite an audience anymore. The male audience in particular wanted more of the character Ingrid that exists in the book, and less of the space filled shots of Astrid staring up at vast skies. The acting is to perfection with what material they had to work with, but that's what you get when you have a cast like Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger and the always alluring and phenomenal Michelle Pfeiffer who practically mirrors the Ingrid described in the book. Those three women are the only reason this got any stars at all. It's worth it just to watch these pros in play. I had hoped that when the DVD came out that perhaps it would've offered a much longer directors cut version of the film with all the shot scenes that were on the floor back into the film, but no such luck. They couldn't even deliver that.

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Where did Warner Bros. go?
Young at Heart
Day and Sinatra a Great Duo
GOOD MUSIC, GOOD ACTING, GOOD OLD FASHIONED MOVIE
Unfortunate lack of sub-titles

Young at Heart
Starring: Doris Day , Frank Sinatra , Gig Young , Ethel Barrymore , and Dorothy Malone
Director: Gordon Douglas
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Release Date: 2002-01-15

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This 1954 musical remake of Four Daughters stars Doris Day as a well-bred New England woman who marries a chip-on-his-shoulder musician (Frank Sinatra). Lots of tears, yes, but this version of Fannie Hurst's novel is considerably cheered up from the 1938 tearjerker. Dorothy Malone and Elizabeth Fraser play Day's sisters (a fourth sister present in Four Daughters was written out), Robert Keith is the paterfamilias to a bunch of musical prodigies, and Gig Young is entertaining as the composer-boarder who tries deflecting the sisters' interest in him by bringing Sinatra home one day. Both Day and Sinatra really shine in this, and the songs include the Johnny Richards-Caroline Leigh title tune, which became part of Sinatra's standard repertoire. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Where did Warner Bros. go?.......2007-07-01

I have the Republic Pictures/Artisan dvd release of the 1954 Doris Day/Frank Sinatra film "Young at Heart" When released, this was a Warner Bros. picture. However, a great deal of effort has been made to completely erase that fact from this release. There is no Warner Bros. logo at the beginning. The original main title opening has been completely cut out. It opens with the credit "Doris Day and Frank Sinatra" and Sinatra singing the words "Fairy tales can come true ..." with no orchestral introdution. This credit remains on the screen for an uncomfortably long period of time - it couldn't have been like that in the original release. Then, at the end of the film, Sinatra and Day finish singing "You My Love", there's a little bit of dialouge between the family members, the song "Young at Heart" fades in (Sinatra singing), the camera pulls away from the scene and all of a sudden we ABRUPTLY cut to a blue screen that says "The End" as the song comes to and end and the end title music (which would normally have accompanied the Warner Bros. logo) plays. Is there anyone out there that can explain what is going on here?! It looks absolutely AWFUL. If the rights to the film have passed on to someone else, why couldn't they have just affixed their logo (if it's really necessary) prior to the beginning and efter the end of the original credits? Doris, Frank and Warner Bros. deserve better. The color and sound is quite good in this release but the whole thing is rendered second rate by this tacky handling of the credits.

Young at Heart.......2007-06-27

Sinatra was paired opposite fellow crooner Day in Gordon Douglas's colorful "Young At Heart," a romantic melodrama (with music) based on 1938's "Four Daughters." It takes Sinatra forty minutes to show up, but it's worth the wait. Not only does he sing some fabulous songs (including the title tune), but his Barney is a complex, vulnerable character refreshingly different from the singer's swaggering sixties persona. Frank and Doris, who both started as big-band singers, share terrific chemistry under Douglas's direction, making you wish they'd collaborated more often.

Day and Sinatra a Great Duo.......2007-04-11

This light hearted film was enjoyable with superb songs and fine acting as well. Wonderful cast headed by Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Malone, and Ethel Barrymore.

GOOD MUSIC, GOOD ACTING, GOOD OLD FASHIONED MOVIE.......2007-01-10

I WISH THERE WERE MORE MOVIES LIKE THIS. THEY JUST DON'T MAKE THEM ANYMORE, BUT THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE GREAT ACTORS AND ACTRESSES LIKE THAT ANYMORE EITHER. VERY ENJOYABLE.

Unfortunate lack of sub-titles.......2006-12-16

A friend loaned me her VHS copy of this movie, which I loved - - as much of it as I could understand. When actors speak too fast, or don't move their mouths with some of their lines, or lower their voices to a whisper, I don't understand the words. I need English sub-titles, which this movie doesn't offer on DVD. So I am not buying it. (Producers, take note!)

Producers of DVDs should understand that there are many types of folks out here who profit greatly by having sub-titles available. My DVD player can't handle "closed captioning" for the hard of hearing, and I'm sure there are others that can't as well. A friend half my age graciously clicked on the sub-titles when I visited her to view a film, & afterwards, she said, "My goodness! I caught things I hadn't heard before!" And she has perfect hearing!

There must be many people out there who refrain from buying a DVD because they can't see the dialog printed on-screen. There are several movies I would have loved to have, but have not purchased for this reason. Knowing what's going on makes for greater enjoyment.

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