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| Title: | Movie Reviews and Discussion |
| Notice: | Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie! |
| Moderator: | VAXCPU::michaud o.dec.com::tamara::eppes |
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| Created: | Thu Jan 28 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1249 |
| Total number of notes: | 16012 |
349.0. "For Love or Money" by VMSDEV::HALLYB (Fish have no concept of fire) Tue Oct 12 1993 13:45
Stars Michael J. Fox and Gabrielle Anwar. He's a bellhop, I mean
Concierge, at a plush Manhattan Hotel. His job is doing a lot of
odd jobs for the guests, e.g. walking dogs, delivering packages,
obtaining tickets to Broadway shows, etc. Her job is tending the
perfume counter at nearby Horne's Department Store. Ahh, actually
I don't know the name of the store.
He is very good at what he does: deals with guests and solves their
problems with enthusiasm and is very street-wise. But he wants more
from life than his job, he wants to renovate an old Hotel on Roosevelt
Island and has done tremendous amounts of homework putting together the
business plan. He only needs financing...
She isn't really into her job, she wants to be a singer but her talents
are not exactly star quality. The other item in her life is the man
she is carrying on with -- a wealthy married businessman who has the
money to turn Fox's "dream hotel" into reality. From there on out it's
just a matter of figuring out how the happy ending will materialize.
The movie is rated PG-13, more G than P, but there isn't too much here
for the younger set. In fact, there isn't much here at all. This is a
very "light" movie with only a couple redeeming features:
1: A 50s "romp" in the middle
2: Gabrielle Anwar, the 1990s version of Audrey Hepburn. If the name
isn't familiar, recall Al Pacino's tango partner in "Scent of a Woman"
and you've got it. That lovely long classic neck is readily visible
throughout most of this film.
John
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| 349.1 | | 12368::michaud | Jeff Michaud, PATHWORKS for Windows NT | Wed Mar 02 1994 22:35 | 12 |
| Did anyone else see this? I had a question about the
ending after the spoiler warning:
[spoiler warning]
I was originally under the impression that Slovati
(the Italian tenent in the Hotel, played by the
actor who played Nick Tortelli on Cheers) was going
finance MJF's dream hotel because of MJF going to him
to ask him for a very big favor? However at the end
he seemed to be getting his financing from the other
hotel guest whom whose marriage he saved ......
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| 349.2 | From what I remember... | 23989::POGAR | Movie Critic-Costner Specialist | Thu Mar 03 1994 12:59 | 15 |
| Spoiler warning....
The other hotel guest (Michael Tucker?) and Slovati had both left
something in the hotel. MJF didn't have time for one reason or another
to get the stuff couriered out, so he asked the old-man bellhop. The
packages got mixed up. Slovati was supposed to get the hotel plans and
the other guest was supposed to get something else (I don't remember).
Turns out Tucker was the head of some huge company with money to spare,
and no "holds" on MJF, which left him and Gabrielle "free" for each
other; neither would have any obligations to Slovati.
Catherine
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| 349.3 | | 12368::michaud | Jeff Michaud, PATHWORKS for Windows NT | Thu Mar 03 1994 19:50 | 18 |
| Thanks, but me thinks you were more confused than I was :-)
[spoiler warning]
> The other hotel guest (Michael Tucker?) and Slovati had both left
> something in the hotel. MJF didn't have time for one reason or another
> to get the stuff couriered out, so he asked the old-man bellhop. The
> packages got mixed up. Slovati was supposed to get the hotel plans and
> the other guest was supposed to get something else (I don't remember).
From what I remember, only the one hotel guest (the one who
called MJF at the end) had a package to be mailed (the empty
watch box to avoid sales tax). The other package was MJF's (his
hotel plans) to be mailed to what's his names partners.
Yes, the packages got mixed up, and that's the reason he called
MJF at the end of the movie, but what did MJF go to Nick
Tortelli for?
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