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My Left Foot (1989)

9.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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No one expects much from Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), a boy with cerebral palsy born into a...

She-Devil (1989)

7.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Housewife and mother Ruth Patchett (Roseanne Barr), an overweight and unkempt woman, can seem to do...

Hang 'em High (1968)

8.0 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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After a gang of men unsuccessfully attempts to lynch him for a cattle rustling crime he did not...

Rachel Weisz recommended Harold and Maude (1971) in Movies (curated)

Harold and Maude (1971)

1971 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.6

(5 Ratings)

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"I’m going to go with Harold and Maude, by Hal Ashby. I think it’s definitely one of the most unusual love stories that I’ve seen. Maude is one of the most inspiring characters. She reminds me to see the world positively and forgivingly and put past troubles behind me. The Cat Stevens soundtrack is sublime. The comedy is delicious. The performance of Ruth Gordon – you know, she’s a woman in her 80s acting like a 16-year-old – is one of the most extraordinary performances I’ve ever seen. I believe it got very bad reviews when it came out, almost unanimously, but is, I think, probably one of the great comedies ever made."

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Will Oldham recommended Harold and Maude (1971) in Movies (curated)

Harold and Maude (1971)

1971 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.6

(5 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"This was the movie, when I was a kid. This and Bugsy Malone. I know all of the dialogue in these two movies from repeated viewings at the movie theater. The Vogue and the Alpha 3 theaters in Louisville. And Ruth Gordon gave me a gateway to Hollywood screenwriting history, and Cat Stevens a gateway to transformation through music. Harold took life’s lemons and made a black psychedelic monolithic lemonade. I learned to do that too. Comedy in death, comedy in failure, comedy in being mystified by societal expectations. I was very fond of MGM musicals during my childhood, and Harold and Maude felt like the closest thing to a modern-day evolution of one of those."

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The Tall Man

Phoebe Locke

9.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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The Tall Man is an addictive and unforgettable blend of psychological suspense and spine-tingling...

ClareR (5869 KP) rated Marple: Twelve New Stories in Books

Jul 10, 2023

I’ve haven’t read any Agatha Christie, so I’ve only seen Miss Marple on the TV in her many guises - and I’ve enjoyed them all.
My favourite stories in the anthology were written by: Val McDermid, Natalie Haynes, Ruth Ware, Ely Griffiths and Kate Moss.

The authors mentioned above gave the most convincing re-imaginings, whilst some of the others made her sound more modern, or Americanisms had slipped in - which is definitely very un-Marple-ish!

All in all, it’s a very enjoyable anthology, and I did like all of the stories.

Thanks to The Pigeonhole and to all the authors that contributed (the US cover actually shows who all of the authors are).