An American drama directed by Rob Reiner, starring Morgan Freeman and Virginia Madsen.
A retired writer of western novels moves into a house next door to a single mother with three daughters. The middle daughter wants him to teach her how to write.
Sappy-crappy! It was so sickeningly sweet that it almost made me spew. The plot followed the most sentimental and heart-warming path available. The characters were all basically female, including Morgan Freeman, but not the dog. The dog demonstrated male gender identity by licking it's own penis. Freeman played the kind, crippled, de-sexed and harmless old man who can barely raise an argument, let alone his cock. The video looked like Reiner said "Let's make a chick flick!". Don't get me wrong. Everything looked fine and it was actually done quite well, but in a namby-pamby type of way. Audio followed suit, but very quietly. I wanted Beatrix Kiddo to show up with her Hanzo sword and demonstrate for all of them what a real woman is. Or maybe Lieutenant Ripley in the power loader, wielding a grenade launcher/shotgun/flame-thrower and being chased by swarms of savage Xenomorph XX121s. Overall, cry me a fucking river, you pansies. I rate this bad because I hated it.
An American horror directed by Bernard Rose, starring Virginia Madsen.
A woman is doing research on urban legends for college and encounters a story about a ghostly killer. She follows the tale to it's logical conclusion.
This is not the candy man who makes the world taste good, but he does mix it with love. The plot was relatively interesting and I cared about the main character. The fact that she earned female anatomy points did sway my decision. The camera-work was exemplary of the early '90s, with lots of wide angle overhead shots. I think they relied a little too heavily on music to create the spooky atmosphere. The hospital scene was very accurate. I know because I've been there. Missing time, heavy restraints and no answers from the inhospitable staff are all key points. The style was typical of late '80s/early '90s horror. Overall, not bad. I rate it adequate. You might want to watch this.
An American courtroom drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Danny Glover, Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke and Virginia Madsen.
A new lawyer takes a difficult case involving health insurance.
I don't like watching games of Lawyers & Lawsuits. The plot does not interest me and I don't care what happens to the characters. Everything made sense and the characters were acted decently. The camera-work was nothing to write home about and the slow pacing made this seem longer than it actually was. Overall, I was not interested. I rate this poor.
