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Birdcage

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A gay cabaret owner Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) and Albert Goldman (Nathan Lane), his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son (Val Goldman) can introduce them to his fiancée’s (Calista Flockhart) right-wing moralistic parents. Her parents, Kevin and Louise, (Gene Hackman, Diane Wiest) are ultra conservative and […]

Gone Baby Gone

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Private investigator Patrick Kenzie (Casey Affleck) and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro (Michelle Monaghan) witness a televised plea by a woman named Helene McCready (Amy Ryan) for the return of her missing daughter Amanda (Madeline O’Brien), who was abducted with her favorite doll “Mirabelle.” Patrick and Angie are then hired by the child’s Aunt […]

Your Movie Sucks

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Roger Ebert’s I Hated Hated Hated This Movie, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, was a best-seller. This new collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel. From Roger’s review of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (0 […]

American Beauty

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Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle-aged magazine writer who hates his job. His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), is a real-estate broker. Their sixteen-year-old daughter, Jane (Thora Birch), has low self-esteem and despises her parents. The Burnhams’ new neighbors are retired United States Marine Corps Colonel Frank Fitts (Chris Cooper), his wife, Barbara (Allison Janney), […]