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| 992.1 | | BUSY::SLABOUNTY | Why don't you bend for gold? | Wed Dec 27 1995 15:45 | 3 |
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The lead female is played by Annette Bening.
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| 992.2 | | KERNEL::PLANTC | To tell you the truth, Not so much! | Tue Jan 02 1996 10:23 | 8 |
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My partner and I went to see this one over the holiday and really
enjoyed it. Its just romantic fluff..but we all need that once in
a while.
Chris
:)
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| 992.3 | fun movie | STOWOA::JACOBSON_A | | Mon Jun 03 1996 12:43 | 3 |
| We rented this movie over the weekend. It was wonderful. A nice light
movie for the summer. Michael J Fox and Richard Dreyfuss were very good
in supporting roles.
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| 992.4 | Kudos to Martin Sheen | ASDG::HORTON | paving the info highway | Mon Jun 17 1996 15:59 | 9 |
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Fox and Dreyfuss did play very well. My favorite supporting
actor was Martin Sheen as the president's chief of staff.
I especially liked the scene with his "most popular history
professor" line.
-Jerry
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| 992.5 | | WMOIS::LYONS_S | | Wed Jun 19 1996 13:58 | 12 |
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I enjoyed this. I have to admit thought that I was glad I waited for
the rental. It's a nice story, no violence (accept of course for the
attack on Libya which we never see), some romance and just a nice
clean, fun story. I have to agrre with -1 about Martin Sheen. I
thought it was a nice role for him. I liked his comment "I can pass her
a note in study hall".
Didn't care for M. J. Fox however....typical role for him. He reminded
me of his character Alex on Family Ties.
All in all a very good rental.
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| 992.6 | Who would even watch such liberal propaganda? | ODIXIE::LOWER | What fools these mortals be! | Thu Jun 20 1996 00:26 | 5 |
| >Didn't care for M. J. Fox however....typical role for him. He reminded
>me of his character Alex on Family Ties.
Alex working for a DEMOCRAT??? That borders on blasphemy...
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| 992.7 | liked it a lot! | GRANPA::JBOBB | Janet Bobb dtn:339-5755 | Tue Sep 03 1996 15:20 | 68 |
| Rented this over the weekend (went hog wild at the video store so there
will be several entries in different movies from me... love long
weekends!)
Liked it. Very much. In fact, we watched it Sat. night and before I
returned it on Sunday I watched most of it again. Was just going to
replay the end speech but ended up stopping at many other places.
Some very good lines - some already mentioned - Michael Douglas had
some nice one-liners, delivered very well. Scene I remember is where
Douglas is trying to convince Benning he's just an average normal guy
asking her out for a date - when a heliocopter lands in the yard behind
him (seen through the oval office window) and when she asks what's
that? his response is 'just my ride".
I thought Martin Sheen was a good chief-of-staff - liked the ongoing
argument between him and the president of using the president's first
name when they are by them selves off hours.
Michael J. Fox character was Alex Keating in pretty much every sense -
maybe Alex loosened up a bit when he went to college! Richard Dreyfuss
was pretty much wasted in the part, not much screen time. But, as
usual, made the most of it and was really slimy.
Anyone know if they were able to film any of this in the white house?
And - I wonder if anyone does dance at the formal state house dinners.
good light fun. May not appropriate for young ages (see spoiler).
janetb.
spoiler after form feeds
spoilers beyond
If you have objections to kids seeing the "before" of 2 adults sleeping
together, then beware. However, it was certainly a lot less then one
sees on any daytime/nighttime soap and most other tv shows. So, don't
know if it would bother anyone.
1 nit/inconsistency - when Sydney arrives at the white house to break
it off, she's not wearing earrings, when she leaves the next morning,
she is wearing them.
I did wish the storyline had gone on for a few more days - I wanted to
hear the new state of the union address! or at least the public poll
reactions to the president's impromptu press conference defending
Sydney. Or hear the opponent's reaction. And I like the idea of asking
"why not have an aclu membership card?"
I agreed with did the President that some things should be private, but
I thought it showed much less public/poitical awareness then he showed
in almost all other issues.
And - how did she go from deciding to break up to going to bed - I
thought that was a bit fast. But you do need to move the plot along
sometimes.
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