I am Sam (New Line Platinum Series) (2002): Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer

I Am Sam makes you laugh, cry, and recoil all at the same time. Perhaps no other film of recent memory has epitomized the shameless sentimentality of Hollywood as succinctly as director and screenwriter Jessie Nelson’s story of a mentally challenged man fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. Sam (Sean Penn), who has [...]

Hope Floats (1998)

Cute-as-a-button Sandra Bullock is a homemaker who learns that her husband and best friend are having an affair. The so-called best friend reveals this information on a national chat show, leaving Bullock devastated and disgraced. Heading back to her small hometown in Texas, she seeks refuge with her eccentric mother. Laconic Harry Connick Jr., a [...]

Despicable Me Movie review, 3-D Film

The 3D animated feature starring Steve Carell as the villainous Gru is more exasperating than entertaining. It isn’t easy being despicable. Just ask the creators of Despicable Me, who started out trying to make a movie about a villain from the villain’s perspective and ended up with a 3D animated feature so saccharine that sappy [...]

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