Miss Julie

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delightful
"We Have to Be Good to Bugs --- All Bugs"
Disturbing film
too scary
too scary for small tykes

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids
Starring: Brooke Shields , Rick Moranis , Tony Jay , Scott Beaudin , and Rebecca Brenner
Director: Kevin McDonagh (II) , and Mike Fallows
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B0001CNQCG
Release Date: 2004-07-20

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Bestselling author David Kirk brings his Miss Spider book series to life in this film debut about a mother's love, cleverly set in a bug's world. As the film's executive producer, Kirk has skillfully transposed his luminous illustrations onto the screen in sparkling animation. The story finds the sweet-natured Miss Spider (voiced by Brooke Shields) newly married to noble and bespectacled Holley (voiced by Rick Moranis). The love bugs soon hatch a brood of babies and discover that parenting is full of challenges; namely, keeping track of their small son, Squirt. When a mysterious visitor appears in the meadow, Squirt takes it deep into the forest and right into the web of menacing arachnid strongman, Spideris. Though Kirk departs from his trademark rhyming prose to bring about the full-length film, he continues to delight with his usual scattering of playful puns, such as when a flying Squirt squeals, "Hey Mom, I'm surfin' the web." Spiderifically fun. (Ages 4 to 10) --Lynn Gibson

Description

Now you can laugh, dance and sing along with Miss Spider and all her friends in their very own adventure! Brooke Shields and Rick Moranis give voice to Miss Spider and her husband Holley in this irresistible tale of friendship and familyand eight-legged funbased on the best-selling children's book series by David Kirk. Spring has arrived with five bundles of joy for Miss Spider and Holley! Now, with Snowdrop, Pansy, Spinner, Wiggle and Squirt, there's never a dull moment around the web. But when Squirt tries to reunite a lost chicken egg with its mother, Miss Spider and Holley must hatch a daring plan to rescue him and his new friends...before they all become chicken feed!!

Customer Reviews:

delightful.......2007-02-28

My three year old daughter loves this movie. It is very clever. I can see where some of the characters could be scary for younger children, but my daughter loves it.

"We Have to Be Good to Bugs --- All Bugs".......2007-01-20

"Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids," based on David Kirk's book by the same name, is a touching introduction to the land of Sunny Patch for all fans of Miss Spider and her little buglings.

Miss Spider and Holley are two lovebugs and the special begins with their marriage. Spiderus, however, is a carnivorous spider who is jealous of their romance and wants Miss Spider for himself. As he stews, everyone celebrates, until a chicken shows up. They manage to chase out the chicken and the fun resumes, but what they don't realize is that the chicken has left behind an egg.

Miss Spider and Holley settle into life together and eventually, Miss Spider lays eggs. She's excited about becoming a mother, but she's nervous too. She was adopted as a little spiderling by Betty Beetle. Since her adopted Mom really knew nothing about raising a baby spider, she basically had to make it up as she went along. Betty, however, assures her that she'll be a great Mom.

Miss Spider and Holley hatch five little spiders --- Squirt, Wiggle, Spinner and the twins Pansy and Snowdrop. They all soon grow into spirited little kids and Squirt is perhaps the most-spirited of them all. When the kids discover the egg that the chicken left behind, Squirt decides that he needs to return it to his mother, even if in entails danger. On his adventure, he discovers several new friends.

"Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids" is a delightful special that teaches kindness, bravery and friendship. Fans of the series will delight at learnng the genesis of their buggy friends now seen daily on television and in many books. This special is the only "Miss Spider" release by MGM Kids and the only one to star Brooke Shields as the voice of Miss Spider. In the TV show and future specials, Kristin Davis takes over as the voice of Miss Spider.

P.S.: I don't think this film is too scary for little kids. Compared to some of the fare that is out there, the content of this film isn't remotely scary, although, naturally, anyone with a strong fear of spiders might want to avoid it. Other than that, this film is really cute, with occasional scenes of peril, but nothing that anyone older than about three-or-four would probably be too terrified by (and I do believe the intended target audience is probably older preschool to those beginning school and their parents. Oh, and any fan of quality animation.)

Disturbing film.......2006-03-02

The movie opens with a melancholy, off-beat, off-key melody while we are twisting and winding through a forest, which made me feel disoriented and nauseous. The bad guy, "Spideris" is a pale white spider with distorted features, a character Tim Burton ("Corpse bride") would love.

This character frightened my two-year so much that he grabbed my finger and used it to turn off the TV.

I feel like a terrible father that I allowed him to watch this movie.

too scary.......2005-12-26

The antagonist in this movie is a very scary looking ghost-white spider with a big human-like face, a huge chin and sharp white teeth contrasting against a blood red mouth. He made me raise my eyebrows just before sending my three year old screaming and running from the TV. He shows up in the background in the initial wedding scene, when Miss Spider is getting married, muttering something about why isn't she with him; odd content for a young audience. Then he shows up mouth wide open ready to gobble one of Miss Spider's eggs that was dropped from a branch on the way to the egg sack. The egg does get rescued by some flying bug in the knick of time. We just stopped watching the movie after this point. We won't be watching it again until I know which scenes to skip a priori.

too scary for small tykes.......2005-11-29

Cute idea, but a little disjointed and it terrified my 2 yr old. By the fourth time she saw Spideras she was crying to turn it off, and she doesn't usually get scared. She asks to see the spiders in Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. The snakes really scared her as well. And she hated the idea of losing a mommy - she wouldn't let me out of her sight all evening. Even though we watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang right afterward, she was talking about scary monsters when she woke up in the morning.

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average remake of the Shirley Temple classic
Movie 'Little Miss Marker"
Little Miss Marvelous
A delightful & hilarious gem!
Good movie let down by DVD

Little Miss Marker
Starring: Walter Matthau , Julie Andrews , Tony Curtis , Bob Newhart , and Lee Grant
Director: Walter Bernstein
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B0003JAOPO
Release Date: 2004-11-23

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In this colorful, heartwarming story set in the 1930 s, a stingy curmudgeon accepts a gamble he can t win, unless he s ready to give up his heart. Walter Matthau portrays Sorrowful Jones, a grouchy, horse-racing bookie who makes his living off other people s losses. He s got a reputation to keep, so when an out-of-luck gambler begs him to accept his daughter as a marker on a debt, Sorrowful says yes. But now he s stuck with the girl and this six-year-old beauty may be more than he bargained for. She may even help a sour-faced bachelor find love! Co-starring Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart, and Sara Stimson as The Kid, this delightful, sentimental comedy is a sure bet to charm the whole family.

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Running Time 103 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

average remake of the Shirley Temple classic.......2007-05-24

The 1980 remake of LITTLE MISS MARKER does visibly capture a lot of the 1930s feeling of the original Damon Runyon story, but the film as a whole seems under-done.

Walter Matthau plays the curmudgeonly bookie "Sorrowful" Jones, who finds himself lumbered with a six-year-old girl, known only as "The Kid" (played by Sara Stimson). Throw a beautiful society dame into the mix (Julie Andrews at her loveliest), and you have one of the classic comedies.

The original version of LITTLE MISS MARKER was filmed by Paramount Pictures in 1934, starring Shirley Temple as "The Kid" and Adolphe Menjou as "Sorrowful". In terms of sheer charm, the original wins hands-down, but the 1980 remake must be commended for re-creating the tale for a new generation.

Walter Matthau and Julie Andrews manage to conjure up some sort of chemistry--but despite that fact you'd never imagine them as a romantic couple. Sara Stimson is appealing in the title role, and there are some fun cameos from Tony Curtis and Lee Grant.

Universal has released LITTLE MISS MARKER on a bare-bones DVD--fullscreen transfer, and there isn't even a menu. However, the price is nice, and the movie itself is quite enjoyable. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).

Movie 'Little Miss Marker".......2006-11-10

I loved the movie years ago when it came out. It was wonderful to enjoy it again.

Little Miss Marvelous.......2005-08-12

This is a great, fun movie. Walter Matheau is always a treat to watch. I believe this is the 3rd remake of "little Miss Marker", the first with Adolf Menjou and Shirley Temple and the 2nd made in the early 60's with Tony Curtis (taking the little girl to Disneyland. This version from the early 80's is set in the depression era, with Tony Curtis as the villain. I recommend this movie for the whole family

A delightful & hilarious gem!.......2005-02-09

This is such a feel-good comedy, one of Walter Matthau's best!

If you've seen the "Odd Couple", or for that matter any of Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon's comedy, then you'll love this.

The casting is spot on!

So glad it's finally out on DVD :-)

Good movie let down by DVD.......2005-01-05

This is vintage Walter Matthau, playing his trademark sourpuss personality. Based on a story by Damon Runyon (the same author whose stories formed the basis for the classic Guys and Dolls), the film is populated by the usual Runyonesque cast of endearing, gold-hearted Depression-era lowlife characters. Matthau plays Sorrowful Jones, a bookie who takes the Kid (Sara Stimson) as a marker for a bet placed by her father, who promptly goes out and drowns himself. Despite his flinty exterior, Jones has a heart and spends the rest of the movie trying to cope with his new status as father-by-default to the adorable Kid. In this he is aided and abetted by his faithful sidekick, played admirably by Bob Newhart. Julie Andrews as the love interest adds a touch of class. The cast is rounded off by Tony Curtis, playing a less-than-menacing gangster who provides the third side of the love triangle.

The plot is carried entirely by Matthau, whose deadpan delivery of his lines is impeccable. The humour does not insult the viewer's intelligence. All in all, a film worth watching.

The only quibble I have is with the DVD, which is execrable. There are no special features at all - not even a menu for selection of scenes. What we have here is basically a VHS in DVD format. One expects more nowadays.

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids/Stellaluna

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Great Kid Movies

Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids/Stellaluna
Starring: Brooke Shields , Rick Moranis , Tony Jay , Scott Beaudin , and Rebecca Brenner
Director: Kevin McDonagh (II) , Mike Fallows , and William R. Kowalchuk
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ASIN: B0002V7OBK
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Customer Reviews:

Great Kid Movies.......2007-01-12

My 2 year old is in love with Miss Spider. This was a great movie because it explained how the kids were adopted. I didn't know this and always wondered. Awesome Movie!
My 4 year old loved Stellaluna. It's a very cute story.

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This is a tough one to review!!!
Well-acted film, but don't expect to enjoy it
Simply a masterpiece...
Strindberg's Old Stage Drama Looks Exactly Old Stage Drama
0 stars.

MISS JULIE (DVD)

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ASIN: 0792845455

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On Midsummer's Eve, in Northern Sweden, noblewoman Miss Julie stays home, perhaps due to the failure of her engagement to a callous man. Instead, she takes part in the servants' wild outdoor dances--but her eye is on her father's footman, John, who is engaged to the cook, Christine. As the exhausted Christine falls asleep in a chair, John and Miss Julie begin a struggle of power and sex in which their social roles are both a weapon and a weakness. Like most of Mike Figgis's films (Leaving Las Vegas, Internal Affairs), Miss Julie is very pretty to look at and the actors (Saffron Burrows and Peter Mullan) are excellent. The movie is adapted from the August Strindberg play of the same name; the theatrical dialogue and speeches don't play all that well in film, but are well-executed, and Figgis finds ways to keep the movie visually engaged: Burrows's height (or Mullan's lack of it) is a visual metaphor for their class standings; at one point Miss Julie cries, and her tears clean a streak in the dust on her face, making her look both clownish and pitiful; the screen splits in two, showing two perspectives of the same scene for a brief time. When the servants return from their drunken revels, John and Miss Julie are forced to hide lest they start rumors, and the servants stagger around the kitchen, singing, grabbing each other, searching thirstily for more wine--the effect is eerie. A strong adaptation of a theater classic. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Saffron Burrows (Deep Blue Sea) and Peter Mullan (Trainspotting) deliver riveting performances (Newsday) in this tale of desire, passion and betrayal that pits upper class against lower class in a 'superbly staged battle between the sexes (Detour). With a script basedon August Strindberg's famous play and written for the screen by Helen Cooper, Miss Julie director Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) presents a taut and intimate story, holding you with the intensity of his vision and his mastery of nuance (Los Angeles Times) from beginning to end. On a late 19th-century estate, a celebration of wine and beer lets loose inhibitions and innerpassions. Jean (Mullan), the Count's footman, takes the advances of the Count's daughter (Burrows) too far with a scandalous encounter in the kitchen. And over one night, it becomes clear that these two lost souls desperately need each other in order to escape the confinesand trappingsof their lives. But can a servant support a noblewoman, who, without her father's money, is no more privileged than he?

Customer Reviews:

This is a tough one to review!!!.......2007-01-06

Some movies baffle me.I want to like them,but something just won't let me embrace the entire work.MISS JULIE is one such film.While I found the actors outstanding in their performances, I was intensely aware that this was adapted from a play.It felt exactly like a play that maybe I would have enjoyed more sitting in a live theatre,able to sense the energy of other people.For me,some plays just simply do not adapt well to the screen.While I admired the unique camera work and Mike Figgis' attempt to film this work SOMETHING just did not work.Maybe in the hands of another director or opening up the film from that claustrophobic kitchen would make MISS JULIE more interesting to be viewed on a screen;but until that happens I feel that MISS JULIE needs to remain a play.
Also,some of the dialogue gets so low that it practically becomes inaudible.I was constantly rewinding in order not to miss anything.That's frustrating!

Well-acted film, but don't expect to enjoy it.......2005-05-26

Don't expect this film about one night of sexual relationship between a count's daughter and her footman to be a light-hearted French-style romp. It is, instead, a highly depressing film about a deeply self-destructive woman and a ruthless, heartless man. Throughout the film, each relentlessly attempts to dominate and ultimately destroy the other. True, there's some well-worded dialog about class and gender relations, that's highly radical for the 1880s, when I believe the original play was written. The strong overtones of sadism are probably original. Although I suspect the four-letter words and other explicit references were inserted in the modern film script.

But the characters-particularly Miss Julie-are so utterly irrational, that I couldn't help spending the film saying "Geez, guys, just quit drinking, get some sleep, and things will look better in the morning." At one point, when Miss Julie proposes a suicide pact, the footman replies, "I'd rather open a hotel."

No kidding.

Simply a masterpiece..........2004-07-10

It's movies like this that restore one's faith in the movie business. Sure, this movie is based on a play and some may find it stagey or theatrical, but it is, nonetheless, as powerful a movie experience as this particular reviewer has ever had.

Saffron Burrows brings quite a bit to the table here: the depth of her concentration and commitment to the role of Miss Julie is transcendent and breathtaking. She captures one's attention so completely that there is no hope for release until the performance's end. Her beauty and skill as an actress are unsurpassed in modern times and it baffles me to no end that she is not more widely recognized and celebrated. Peter Mullar in the role of Jean is superb and deserves more recognition.

Figgis' Miss Julie is a more faithful telling of Strindberg's play than the more 'cinematic' Sjoberg version of 1950. Where Figgis employs economy, Sjoberg lengthened with unnecessary flashbacks, dampening much of the power of the original play. Months after watching Miss Julie I find myself still mesmerized and enraptured by its web.

Congratulations to Mike Figgis and all persons involved in the project. It is only unfortunate that more people will not see Miss Julie. It deserves and is worthy of your attention.

Note to Saffron: you are brilliant and inspire me to take my work to a higher level.

Strindberg's Old Stage Drama Looks Exactly Old Stage Drama.......2003-09-11

The original drama "Miss Julie" (sometimes spelled "Miss Julia") is written by Swedish writer August Strindberg in 1888. Because of its contents, it had been banned in his native country for 25 years, but looking back from now, the sexual nature looks nothing special now. But somehow director Mike Figgis thought of pretty faithfiul adaptation of this one-act drama.

There are three characters -- Jean, Julie, Chiristine -- but basically the drama belongs to the servant Jean (Peter Mullan) and Miss Julie, rich count's rather spolied daughter, played by director's muse Saffron Burrows. On Midsummer's Eve, uninhibited by class consciousness, Miss Julie taunts Jean, who at first endures the insult. Then, slowly the fierce battle of will leads them into seduction and contemplation of living together, or the rigid mores of society they live in.

The talky nature of the film is regrettable, but understandable. It is a filmed stage drama, and that's not to be blamed. The problem is this; one, many of us today no longer feel bound by the same sexual codes as they experience. The values they talk about are, if not totally, almost dead. The film fails to answer this question -- they suffer, but why should we care?

But the bigger trouble is this; director Figgis is so intent on denying that the original material is made for stage, that he uses too many irritatingly flashy cameraworks like split screen. And by showing too many of them, and the sexual nature of the drama more explicitly, the film is deprived of the subtle nuance which the original drama has. What is the point of blantantly showing the poor dead bird itself anyway when what the drama wants to show lies in different place?

Acting is good, I admit, but I cannot help thinking that Peter Mullan is miscast. The original drama clearly says Jean is 30 year-old (while Miss Julie is 25). They act well, trying to generate the intensity between the sex, which I find sadly missing. What if Daniel Day-Lewis did the same role -- I was thinking about that all through this extremely depressing film.

0 stars........2003-06-07

Boring, boring, boring. Set piece of a flawed, and overindulgent strindberg play, could have been more bearable had this been a play, but in the movies, too sub par actors, no real plot...no way man. Alright, strindberg was known for his sadist relationships with women, as well as his little, oh shall we call it inferiority complex, with upper classes. (Dad an aspiring aristocrat, but a failed bussiness man, mom proletarian and dies very young) He married a baroness, then deserted her, then never, according to his own admission, managed a loving relationship, without the power, submission, et al. with a woman. Now imagine all that transcribed into endless dialogs between countess ( mike figes girlfriend managing a huge fiasco of wooden (over)-acting and stunned grimaces) and her dad's servant: I like you, i am above you class-wise, i like you too, i want the power you got, i am more clever/older than you i ll dominate you, no you wont, blah, blah, blah.

Gladly i watched it on cable and had some work to do so essentially i heard most of it, well to be honest, after an hour or so, i put some music on the pc, coulndt be bothered anymore.

So, it all boils down to, if you are the arty type with aspirations and in need of dinner time conversations then by all means watch, and have another pointless discussion on nothing, if not, watch a decent movie, with some plot, characters, depth, and not some re-vamped failure of meaningless drama.

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Now you can laugh, dance and sing along with Miss Spider and all her friends in their very own adventure! Brooke Shields and Rick Moranis give voice to Miss Spider and her husband Holley in this irresistible tale of friendship and family and eight-legged funbased on the best-selling children's book series by David Kirk. Spring has arrived with five bundles of joy for Miss Spider and Holley! Now, with Snowdrop, Pansy, Spinner, Wiggle and Squirt, there's never a dull moment around the web. But when Squirt tries to reunite a lost chicken egg with its mother, Miss Spider and Holley must hatch a daring plan to rescue him and his new friends...before they all become chicken feed!!

Customer Reviews:

delightful.......2007-02-28

My three year old daughter loves this movie. It is very clever. I can see where some of the characters could be scary for younger children, but my daughter loves it.

"We Have to Be Good to Bugs --- All Bugs".......2007-01-20

Disturbing film.......2006-03-02

too scary.......2005-12-26

too scary for small tykes.......2005-11-29

Miss Julie and The Stronger, by August Strindberg

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Miss Julie and The Stronger, by August Strindberg

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This is a tough one to review!!!
Well-acted film, but don't expect to enjoy it
Simply a masterpiece...
Strindberg's Old Stage Drama Looks Exactly Old Stage Drama
0 stars.

Miss Julie [Region 2]
Starring: Saffron Burrows , Peter Mullan , Maria Doyle Kennedy , Tam Dean Burn , and Heathcote Williams
Director: Mike Figgis
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Customer Reviews:

This is a tough one to review!!!.......2007-01-06

Well-acted film, but don't expect to enjoy it.......2005-05-26

Simply a masterpiece..........2004-07-10

Strindberg's Old Stage Drama Looks Exactly Old Stage Drama.......2003-09-11

0 stars........2003-06-07

Gladly i watched it on cable and had some work to do so essentially i heard most of it, well to be honest, after an hour or so, i put some music on the pc, coulndt be bothered anymore.

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Actor Tim Roth talks about his directing debut in the film, The War Zone, about the devastating effects of incest in a family in London. Then, the director Mike Figgis talks about his new movie, Miss Julie, an adaptation of the play by August Strindberg.

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