I Love Trouble

I Love Trouble


Starring:Nick Nolte, Julia Roberts, Saul Rubinek, James Rebhorn, Robert Loggia, Kelly Rutherford, Olympia Dukakis, Marsha Mason, Eugene Levy, Charles Martin Smith, Dan Butler, Paul Gleason, Jane Adams (II), Lisa Lu, Nora Dunn, Hallie Meyers-Shyer, Boone David Cates, Richard Brown, Clark Gregg, Kevin Breznahan
Director: Charles Shyer
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. As competing newspaper reporters after the same story, there should be enough sparks and brilliantly barbed dialogue flying between them to resurrect the screwball comedy genre of classic Hollywood. But the material isn't there, the charisma isn't there, and the direction (by Shyer) certainly isn't there. At more than two hours, the film begins to dismantle itself, and the cute factor becomes a pain. --Tom Keogh
I Love Trouble
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Absence of Romance
  • Trouble in Love
  • i love this movie
  • Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless
  • Schmultzy and easy-going
 I Love Trouble
Starring: Nick Nolte , Julia Roberts , Saul Rubinek , James Rebhorn , and Robert Loggia
Director: Charles Shyer
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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ASIN: 6305428395
Release Date: 1999-08-24

Amazon.com

The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. As competing newspaper reporters after the same story, there should be enough sparks and brilliantly barbed dialogue flying between them to resurrect the screwball comedy genre of classic Hollywood. But the material isn't there, the charisma isn't there, and the direction (by Shyer) certainly isn't there. At more than two hours, the film begins to dismantle itself, and the cute factor becomes a pain. --Tom Keogh

Description

Screen favorites Julia Roberts (NOTTING HILL, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) and Nick Nolte (THE THIN RED LINE, AFFLICTION) team up to deliver high-voltage star power to this action-packed comedy hit! Roberts and Nolte are Chicago reporters working in hot competition -- and she's not about to give him a break. But when a high-profile story they're trying to crack leads them on the trail of a murder, they find themselves thrown together to uncover a billion-dollar fraud! Applauded by critics and audiences alike, I LOVE TROUBLE is a fast-paced, thrill-packed comedy you're sure to love!

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Absence of Romance.......2007-01-05

Not a remake of the 1947 detective film with the same title, this one stars Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts as two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who meet while investigating a mysterious train crash. They eventually untangle a conspiracy involving corrupt scientists and cancer causing goat milk. The film is intended as an homage to Howard Hawks' comedies like "His Girl Friday" and "Bringing up Baby," but due to the seriousness of the crime and lack of chemistry between the two leads, midway through starts feeling more like "Silkwood."

Husband and wife team Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers previously milked the forties screwball comedy formula with "Father of the Bride," but there are too many unsettling red herrings and not enough real love to make this one worth struggling through.

3 out of 5 stars Trouble in Love.......2006-09-25

This one was okay, but a bit too long. The funniest part is actually the scene where Nick Nolte and the boyscouts find Julie Roberts skinny dipping, giving Nick a chance to expose "the real Julia" to the boys. And isn't Nolte a bit old for Roberts here? Well, if you're looking for a contrived romantic comedy, look no further.

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie .......2006-07-07

i love this movie i give it 100 stars its one of julia roberts best movie ever this movie is fun and an adventure for anyone so its well worth buying it so buy it now!

4 out of 5 stars Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless.......2005-08-03

This movie--and it's a movie, not a film--features contrived plot twists, an improbable romance, and predictable writing. It's light in every way--just a little scary, just a little romantic, just a little funny. This is not sophisticated movie-making.

However, I have moments when I want a little brain candy to keep my interest without stretching my intellect. And in those moments, I confess, this is what I drag out. Here's the plot: two rival newspaper reporters investigate a suspicious train crash, despise each other, are endangered, fall in love, solve the case. I hope I didn't give too much away. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte don't have the snappy reparte that the screenwriters were so obviously going for, but close. They're both great-looking and winsome enough to root for. Predictably, Robert's character is smart and sassy, while Nolte plays a womanizing rogue. The glowering but still incompetent bad guys threaten the daring duo without disturbing your dreams. It's not the screwball comedy to which it's paying homage, but it's a grade-B imitation of an enjoyable genre, and sometimes that's enough. Watch it with butter on your fingers.

4 out of 5 stars Schmultzy and easy-going.......2005-07-17

Now they have accepted women in the press, and what's more as reporters, competition among journalists is no longer what it used to be. It was natural among men. It is perverse, perverted and absolutely distorted when men and women are competing for the same scoop. That's why a simple train accident became a real plot and criminal attack that aimed at getting rid of one person and some secrets. Life would have been so much simpler without all that competition. The criminal cover-up of the criminal activity of some chemical firm and not so clear senator or should I say senatress only came out because a woman put her pretty nose in some dirty dish and some silly excited male followed the draft and came running after her. There would have been no crime if there had not been a female reporter on the beat at this very moment. That's why women should not get mixed in real business and the real world : to let things remain simple and not to criminalize simple human transactions. The film is quite schmultzy but it is kind of entertaining, though we know from the very start what is going to happen, but the rhythm is fast enough to make us believe we are really running after a gang of shady characters. We have the impression of running after some shadows like a famous little dog after his tail in some waltz of Chopin's. Except that here we don't really who is running after whose tail or whose tail is running after whom.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Raising Victor Vargas
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • If you love New York, you will love this movie
  • a really love this movie
  • A Realistic Teenage Love Story
  • It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom
  • Worth seeing once...probably never again
 Raising Victor Vargas
Starring: Victor Rasuk , Judy Marte , Melonie Diaz , Altagracia Guzman , and Silvestre Rasuk
Director: Peter Sollett
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
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ASIN: B00008EY7D
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon

Description

A Lower East Side teenager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend and a longing younger brother.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars If you love New York, you will love this movie.......2006-11-04

This movie and the characters in it are so real. It describes exactly the grittiness, people and energy of the New York that I love. They are rude, in-your-face, and therefore incredibly fascinating to be with. Having lived there for 10 years, I felt like the characters are my neighbours and friends.

Some reviewers thought this is about poverty or limited resource or the rough life of an urban hispanic youth. I don't think you will feel that way if you ever tasted life in the Big Apple. This is about the incredible cauldron of human beings living densely on a small island. While I lived a life of relative affluence and privilege while in New York, I know many friends who live in the Lower East Side and in homes not very different from the one in the movie. But their lives are not improvished, or limited, and they don't feel that way themselves. They are incredibly interesting, romantic and full of sparkle and energy. I guess that is the reason why the Lower East Side is now becoming yuppiefied!

5 out of 5 stars a really love this movie .......2006-02-10

A GREAT FILM
This is such a good film. Its realistic and really funny. Its a good comedy with a heart and the acting is great. I would recommend it to anybody.

Also Recommended: Girlfight, Requiem For A Dream

5 out of 5 stars A Realistic Teenage Love Story.......2006-01-13

What you come to love most about this film is that it holds nothing back. It shows you what's on the teenage mind around that age and it doesn't water anything down. In Raising Victor Vargas you basically get to know two teenage guys Victor who has a cocky and arrogent swagger and his friend Harold who is really just along for the ride that is victor's life. What's interesting about the movie is that the girl Victor wants is constantly harassed all day every day by guys that want her and Victor becomes one of them. This movie becomes an addiction after the first time you watch it, you can't really explain every detail you just have to see it and you really can't give any of the film away because its a life and you watch a boy become a man. I love that Victor and Judy never have sex and to me it increases the amount of love showing that Victor finally learned what he was meant to be instead of the womanizer he was trying to be.

5 out of 5 stars It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom.......2005-12-02

Victor is a teenager living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, trying to grow up and become a man, in spite of everything that is thrown his way. First of all, Grandma, his grandmother that is raising him and his brother and sister, is a real ball-breaker. She throws him out, only to be told it is illegal to put minors out on the streets in the USA. She thinks he is a horibble influence on his brother Nino, the grandmother's unabashed favorite. Nino is just reaching the age where he is spending literally hours in the bathroom with dirty magazines, and when Grandma walks in and sees him going to town, she blames it all on Victor. The fights between the siblings seem to real and relevant. The language used is vulgar and yet accurate. Everything that Victor is concerned about...the neighborhood not knowing he is sleeping with Fat Donna, his crush on Juicy Judy, is amusing and reminds one of being a teenager. There is much more depth to this movie than I would have expected, and Victor Rasuk, who plays Victor Vargas, is a force to be reckoned with.

2 out of 5 stars Worth seeing once...probably never again.......2005-11-28

After all the fanfare I kept waiting for this movie to get good. There were some subtle subplots going on. It is mostly a tale of poverty and inner city coming of age. I don't feel I really took anything introspective away from this movie, and it wasn't artistic cinima. It had a few good laughs, lots of sibling rivalry drama, disfunctional teen love/infatuation, an overprotective grandmother caretaker who doesn't know what to do, etc.
Was it interesting? Not for everyone. Was it funny? A little. Was it inspirational or introspective? Not for me.
Raising Victor Vargas (Special Edition)
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • If you love New York, you will love this movie
  • a really love this movie
  • A Realistic Teenage Love Story
  • It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom
  • Worth seeing once...probably never again
 Raising Victor Vargas (Special Edition)
Starring: Victor Rasuk , Judy Marte , Melonie Diaz , Altagracia Guzman , and Silvestre Rasuk
Director: Peter Sollett
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0002HODEA
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Amazon.com

Riding high on a wave of unanimous critical acclaim, Raising Victor Vargas emerged as one of the best independent films of 2003. It fits neatly into that most familiar of categories--the coming-of-age comedy--but transcends that label to become something altogether fresh and endearing, beginning with the awkward swagger of its title character, played by Victor Rasuk. He's a Dominican kid raised amidst the poverty of New York's Lower East Side, and his hormones--like those of any 16-year-old--are ablaze with unbridled lust. Under the vigilant eye of his grandmother (who's hilariously convinced the good-boy Victor is doomed to a life of sin), Victor manages to woo the defiant girl of his dreams (Judy Marte--like the rest of this fine cast, a non-professional actor), and director Peter Sollett (expanding his earlier short Five Feet High and Rising) guides them to a delicate place of genuine affection and mutual understanding. It's a summertime fantasy, of sorts, but so simple and sincere that it achieves a state of idealized realism. First love never looked better. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars If you love New York, you will love this movie.......2006-11-04

This movie and the characters in it are so real. It describes exactly the grittiness, people and energy of the New York that I love. They are rude, in-your-face, and therefore incredibly fascinating to be with. Having lived there for 10 years, I felt like the characters are my neighbours and friends.

Some reviewers thought this is about poverty or limited resource or the rough life of an urban hispanic youth. I don't think you will feel that way if you ever tasted life in the Big Apple. This is about the incredible cauldron of human beings living densely on a small island. While I lived a life of relative affluence and privilege while in New York, I know many friends who live in the Lower East Side and in homes not very different from the one in the movie. But their lives are not improvished, or limited, and they don't feel that way themselves. They are incredibly interesting, romantic and full of sparkle and energy. I guess that is the reason why the Lower East Side is now becoming yuppiefied!

5 out of 5 stars a really love this movie .......2006-02-10

A GREAT FILM
This is such a good film. Its realistic and really funny. Its a good comedy with a heart and the acting is great. I would recommend it to anybody.

Also Recommended: Girlfight, Requiem For A Dream

5 out of 5 stars A Realistic Teenage Love Story.......2006-01-13

What you come to love most about this film is that it holds nothing back. It shows you what's on the teenage mind around that age and it doesn't water anything down. In Raising Victor Vargas you basically get to know two teenage guys Victor who has a cocky and arrogent swagger and his friend Harold who is really just along for the ride that is victor's life. What's interesting about the movie is that the girl Victor wants is constantly harassed all day every day by guys that want her and Victor becomes one of them. This movie becomes an addiction after the first time you watch it, you can't really explain every detail you just have to see it and you really can't give any of the film away because its a life and you watch a boy become a man. I love that Victor and Judy never have sex and to me it increases the amount of love showing that Victor finally learned what he was meant to be instead of the womanizer he was trying to be.

5 out of 5 stars It All Starts in Fat Donna's Bedroom.......2005-12-02

Victor is a teenager living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, trying to grow up and become a man, in spite of everything that is thrown his way. First of all, Grandma, his grandmother that is raising him and his brother and sister, is a real ball-breaker. She throws him out, only to be told it is illegal to put minors out on the streets in the USA. She thinks he is a horibble influence on his brother Nino, the grandmother's unabashed favorite. Nino is just reaching the age where he is spending literally hours in the bathroom with dirty magazines, and when Grandma walks in and sees him going to town, she blames it all on Victor. The fights between the siblings seem to real and relevant. The language used is vulgar and yet accurate. Everything that Victor is concerned about...the neighborhood not knowing he is sleeping with Fat Donna, his crush on Juicy Judy, is amusing and reminds one of being a teenager. There is much more depth to this movie than I would have expected, and Victor Rasuk, who plays Victor Vargas, is a force to be reckoned with.

2 out of 5 stars Worth seeing once...probably never again.......2005-11-28

After all the fanfare I kept waiting for this movie to get good. There were some subtle subplots going on. It is mostly a tale of poverty and inner city coming of age. I don't feel I really took anything introspective away from this movie, and it wasn't artistic cinima. It had a few good laughs, lots of sibling rivalry drama, disfunctional teen love/infatuation, an overprotective grandmother caretaker who doesn't know what to do, etc.
Was it interesting? Not for everyone. Was it funny? A little. Was it inspirational or introspective? Not for me.
I Love Trouble [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Absence of Romance
  • Trouble in Love
  • i love this movie
  • Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless
  • Schmultzy and easy-going
 I Love Trouble [Region 2]
Starring: Nick Nolte , Julia Roberts , Saul Rubinek , James Rebhorn , and Robert Loggia
Director: Charles Shyer
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ASIN: B00006AFH1

Amazon.com

The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. As competing newspaper reporters after the same story, there should be enough sparks and brilliantly barbed dialogue flying between them to resurrect the screwball comedy genre of classic Hollywood. But the material isn't there, the charisma isn't there, and the direction (by Shyer) certainly isn't there. At more than two hours, the film begins to dismantle itself, and the cute factor becomes a pain. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Absence of Romance.......2007-01-05

Not a remake of the 1947 detective film with the same title, this one stars Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts as two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who meet while investigating a mysterious train crash. They eventually untangle a conspiracy involving corrupt scientists and cancer causing goat milk. The film is intended as an homage to Howard Hawks' comedies like "His Girl Friday" and "Bringing up Baby," but due to the seriousness of the crime and lack of chemistry between the two leads, midway through starts feeling more like "Silkwood."

Husband and wife team Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers previously milked the forties screwball comedy formula with "Father of the Bride," but there are too many unsettling red herrings and not enough real love to make this one worth struggling through.

3 out of 5 stars Trouble in Love.......2006-09-25

This one was okay, but a bit too long. The funniest part is actually the scene where Nick Nolte and the boyscouts find Julie Roberts skinny dipping, giving Nick a chance to expose "the real Julia" to the boys. And isn't Nolte a bit old for Roberts here? Well, if you're looking for a contrived romantic comedy, look no further.

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie .......2006-07-07

i love this movie i give it 100 stars its one of julia roberts best movie ever this movie is fun and an adventure for anyone so its well worth buying it so buy it now!

4 out of 5 stars Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless.......2005-08-03

This movie--and it's a movie, not a film--features contrived plot twists, an improbable romance, and predictable writing. It's light in every way--just a little scary, just a little romantic, just a little funny. This is not sophisticated movie-making.

However, I have moments when I want a little brain candy to keep my interest without stretching my intellect. And in those moments, I confess, this is what I drag out. Here's the plot: two rival newspaper reporters investigate a suspicious train crash, despise each other, are endangered, fall in love, solve the case. I hope I didn't give too much away. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte don't have the snappy reparte that the screenwriters were so obviously going for, but close. They're both great-looking and winsome enough to root for. Predictably, Robert's character is smart and sassy, while Nolte plays a womanizing rogue. The glowering but still incompetent bad guys threaten the daring duo without disturbing your dreams. It's not the screwball comedy to which it's paying homage, but it's a grade-B imitation of an enjoyable genre, and sometimes that's enough. Watch it with butter on your fingers.

4 out of 5 stars Schmultzy and easy-going.......2005-07-17

Now they have accepted women in the press, and what's more as reporters, competition among journalists is no longer what it used to be. It was natural among men. It is perverse, perverted and absolutely distorted when men and women are competing for the same scoop. That's why a simple train accident became a real plot and criminal attack that aimed at getting rid of one person and some secrets. Life would have been so much simpler without all that competition. The criminal cover-up of the criminal activity of some chemical firm and not so clear senator or should I say senatress only came out because a woman put her pretty nose in some dirty dish and some silly excited male followed the draft and came running after her. There would have been no crime if there had not been a female reporter on the beat at this very moment. That's why women should not get mixed in real business and the real world : to let things remain simple and not to criminalize simple human transactions. The film is quite schmultzy but it is kind of entertaining, though we know from the very start what is going to happen, but the rhythm is fast enough to make us believe we are really running after a gang of shady characters. We have the impression of running after some shadows like a famous little dog after his tail in some waltz of Chopin's. Except that here we don't really who is running after whose tail or whose tail is running after whom.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
I Love Trouble [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Absence of Romance
  • Trouble in Love
  • i love this movie
  • Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless
  • Schmultzy and easy-going
 I Love Trouble [Region 2]
Starring: Nick Nolte , Julia Roberts , Saul Rubinek , James Rebhorn , and Robert Loggia
Director: Charles Shyer
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Roberts, JuliaRoberts, Julia | ( R ) | Actors & Actresses | Stores | DVD | Video
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  1. The Pelican Brief
  2. Satisfaction
  3. Stepmom
  4. Runaway Bride
  5. Notting Hill (Collector's Edition)

ASIN: B00004ZE46

Amazon.com

The writer-producer-director team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride) can't lift this sugary ode to Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday to a believable--let alone enjoyable--plateau. Neither, unfortunately, can its two great and perfectly cast leads, Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts. As competing newspaper reporters after the same story, there should be enough sparks and brilliantly barbed dialogue flying between them to resurrect the screwball comedy genre of classic Hollywood. But the material isn't there, the charisma isn't there, and the direction (by Shyer) certainly isn't there. At more than two hours, the film begins to dismantle itself, and the cute factor becomes a pain. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Absence of Romance.......2007-01-05

Not a remake of the 1947 detective film with the same title, this one stars Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts as two competing Chicago newspaper reporters who meet while investigating a mysterious train crash. They eventually untangle a conspiracy involving corrupt scientists and cancer causing goat milk. The film is intended as an homage to Howard Hawks' comedies like "His Girl Friday" and "Bringing up Baby," but due to the seriousness of the crime and lack of chemistry between the two leads, midway through starts feeling more like "Silkwood."

Husband and wife team Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers previously milked the forties screwball comedy formula with "Father of the Bride," but there are too many unsettling red herrings and not enough real love to make this one worth struggling through.

3 out of 5 stars Trouble in Love.......2006-09-25

This one was okay, but a bit too long. The funniest part is actually the scene where Nick Nolte and the boyscouts find Julie Roberts skinny dipping, giving Nick a chance to expose "the real Julia" to the boys. And isn't Nolte a bit old for Roberts here? Well, if you're looking for a contrived romantic comedy, look no further.

5 out of 5 stars i love this movie .......2006-07-07

i love this movie i give it 100 stars its one of julia roberts best movie ever this movie is fun and an adventure for anyone so its well worth buying it so buy it now!

4 out of 5 stars Not brilliant, but enjoyable nonetheless.......2005-08-03

This movie--and it's a movie, not a film--features contrived plot twists, an improbable romance, and predictable writing. It's light in every way--just a little scary, just a little romantic, just a little funny. This is not sophisticated movie-making.

However, I have moments when I want a little brain candy to keep my interest without stretching my intellect. And in those moments, I confess, this is what I drag out. Here's the plot: two rival newspaper reporters investigate a suspicious train crash, despise each other, are endangered, fall in love, solve the case. I hope I didn't give too much away. Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte don't have the snappy reparte that the screenwriters were so obviously going for, but close. They're both great-looking and winsome enough to root for. Predictably, Robert's character is smart and sassy, while Nolte plays a womanizing rogue. The glowering but still incompetent bad guys threaten the daring duo without disturbing your dreams. It's not the screwball comedy to which it's paying homage, but it's a grade-B imitation of an enjoyable genre, and sometimes that's enough. Watch it with butter on your fingers.

4 out of 5 stars Schmultzy and easy-going.......2005-07-17

Now they have accepted women in the press, and what's more as reporters, competition among journalists is no longer what it used to be. It was natural among men. It is perverse, perverted and absolutely distorted when men and women are competing for the same scoop. That's why a simple train accident became a real plot and criminal attack that aimed at getting rid of one person and some secrets. Life would have been so much simpler without all that competition. The criminal cover-up of the criminal activity of some chemical firm and not so clear senator or should I say senatress only came out because a woman put her pretty nose in some dirty dish and some silly excited male followed the draft and came running after her. There would have been no crime if there had not been a female reporter on the beat at this very moment. That's why women should not get mixed in real business and the real world : to let things remain simple and not to criminalize simple human transactions. The film is quite schmultzy but it is kind of entertaining, though we know from the very start what is going to happen, but the rhythm is fast enough to make us believe we are really running after a gang of shady characters. We have the impression of running after some shadows like a famous little dog after his tail in some waltz of Chopin's. Except that here we don't really who is running after whose tail or whose tail is running after whom.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

DVD:

  1. From Justin To Kelly (Special Edition)
  2. Cheaper by the Dozen (1950) / Belles on Their Toes
  3. Masked and Anonymous
  4. Dinner Rush
  5. Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (New Line Platinum Series)
  6. Disney's The Kid
  7. A Piece of the Action
  8. Osmosis Jones
  9. Jackass - The Movie (Widescreen Special Edition)
  10. See No Evil, Hear No Evil

DVD List

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Prehistoric Planet - Complete Set

Classic Bedtime Stories : DVD

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Single Disc

DVD: Once In The Life

New Port South