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From the Ground Up
Aaron Dalton  |  Aug 28, 2007  |  Published: Aug 29, 2007  |  6 comments

<I>Jerry Rice's dream family theater.</I>

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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio—DreamWorks
Aaron Dalton  |  Mar 23, 2007  |  Published: Jun 23, 2006  |  0 comments
Video: 3
Audio: 3
Extras: 2
Midcentury small-town homemaker Evelyn Ryan keeps her family of 10 kids fed and cared for with prizes from advertising writing contests. Julianne Moore carries the show as the titular prize winner, and Woody Harrelson inhabits his role as a drunken train wreck of a husband to the hilt. But, ultimately, the movie loses steam and becomes repetitive. Harrelson drinks away another paycheck, Moore wins another contest, the kids get to live on the ragged edge of disaster for another week. This harrowing film’s marketing as a “witty and engaging” comedy should be considered seriously false advertising.
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Fun with Dick and Jane—Sony Pictures
Aaron Dalton  |  Feb 02, 2007  |  Published: May 02, 2006  |  0 comments
Video: 4
Audio: 2
Extras: 5
Married yuppies Jane (Ta Leoni) and Dick (Jim Carrey) try to keep up appearances after Dick’s fraudulent company implodes in this frequently hilarious romp. Laced with underlying righteous anger at the corporate shenanigans of recent years, the film still holds plenty of laughs in the physical comedy and strong rapport between Carrey and Leoni. The two characters become partners in crime to pay the bills and hold onto their house. Watching Carrey try and fail repeatedly to draw his gun while robbing a convenience store will have you in stitches, and Leoni more than holds her own with scenes like the one where she bluffs her way through teaching a gymnastic-fighting class.
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Flightplan—Buena Vista
Aaron Dalton  |  Apr 20, 2006  |  0 comments
Video: 5
Audio: 5
Extras: 4
I don't like to sleep on airplanes. Something about the idea of napping among hundreds of strangers condemns me to wakefulness from takeoff to landing. Getting some shut-eye won't be any easier now that I've seen Flightplan, director Robert Schwentke's taut thriller in which a little girl appears to have vanished in the midst of a trans-Atlantic flight.
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