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True Crime (1999)

7.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Academy Award winner Clint Eastwood stars as a troubled investigative reporter whose search for the...

Queer, Latina/o and Bilingual: A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography

Holly Cashman

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In this book, Holly R. Cashman presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of gay and lesbian Latinas/os...

Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture

Curran Nault

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Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages...

Guy Pearce recommended Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) in Movies (curated)

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

2001 | Comedy, Romance

8.1

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"I’m also a big fan of comedy as well, so even things to this day like Bridget Jones’s Diary, there was just something about Bridget Jones that I thought … And I guess it’s [Renée Zellweger‘s] performance. I remember there was a lot of talk about the fact that they cast an American in that role, but I think she captured the sensibility of a repressed English girl who was desperate to fall in love so beautifully And as an actor myself, often you caught slack if you’re playing a gay person and you’re not really gay, or you’re playing an American and you’re not really American, or you’re playing whatever it happens to be. I just think if you can find the essence in a character and pull it off, then it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what your nationality is, etc. There’s something to me about that film that’s like the perfect romantic comedy. I just think it’s a bit hard to put my finger on what it is, to be honest. It’s just beautifully executed. Everything’s so well balanced. Often whenever I read a romantic comedy now, I’m comparing it to Bridget Jones and if it’s planned well."

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