Larry-Miller Movie Reviews

If you're a Christopher Reeve fan, you'll like this movie. If not, then you're in for just another "surviving-in-the-wilderness" tale of an American mail pilot in one of the last days of flying before pilots actually carried passengers. Reeve does a good job of portraying Edgar, a former WW1 flight instructor who's trying to overcome the scars of the death of a student. He crashes in the mountains in the midst of a mail run with a brat of a girl played by Arquette. Surviving with little food, plagued by the cold, hunger and a pack of mean wolves, Reeve triumphes in the end. You didn't expect anything less of Superman now didja?

The plot of this survival movie is adequate. But where the movie really shines is in the relationship between Reeve and Arquette and the changes they inspire in each other. If you are a Reeve or Arquette fan then this should be a must have. If you're not a fan you may well be after watching this film.

Just hotels...no real view of Cozumel...

The producers did a great job of showing the hotels of Cozumel. Viewing this video was helpful in making a hotel choice for our vacation. I would highly recommend this company and any of their videos.

Running over 3 hours long, this made for TV movie is well directed and noticably edited at a clip, except when time is needed to explore detail. It's no surprise that the narrative is based on a novel, since there are three plot strands, and it's to Larry Elikann's credit that proceedings build progressively. At the centre are 3 pairs of hands - cop Armand Assante, his wife Beverley D'Angelo, and assistant District Attorney Blair Brown - but their triangle has a lot of intersecting angles. What they have in common is rape. Brown is investigating a gang and D'Angelo is the victim of one. Though the perpetrators are different, it's inevitable that Brown will come to meet D'Angelo. And this is given another dimention by Brown recruiting Assante to help with her investigation, and that's even before D'Angelo is involved! Confused? What I particularly liked was Elikann's decision to not use music, a wise one when so much of the narrative is methodical action. He does succumb to the ubiquitous sax in a sex scene, but the editing cuts away thankfully fast. At first I was irritated by Assante's performance, with his macho strutting and bird-like head movements. In response Brown imitates him and her usual likability is in question. But eventually he becomes more solid (or I overlooked the mannerism) and his final emotionalism is touching. He also has a drunk scene where his energy level picks up considerably. D'Angelo bears the bulk of the load and while she may overdo the distraught victim, she knows how to play against her co-stars, and she excels when she is trapped. Her rape scene is not explicit but the suggestion and Arliss Howard's smiling offender is so perverse that what one imagines is much more powerful. Howard has a sinister briefcase, with undisclosed contents, and when the nature of the photographs he has taken of his acts is seen by someone, they vomit. Brown has the lesser of the 3 roles, but she manages to get a laugh out of a cliched answer to "Are you sure it was him?" - "You hear his voice, and you don't need to hear it again". The frosty treatment she gives to a rape victim is redeemed, and I liked the animal noises she makes in response to Assante at one point. There are a few minor plot holes - Assante staking out his own house to watch D'Angelo, the disappearance of one character without explaination, and Assante being unrecognised by Howard after he has possession of D'Angelo's purse, as if she didn't have a pic of her husband - but these are forgiveable. And we get to witness a rare torture scene which is contextually pleasing.

This very small, low-budget crime drama, made on a shoestring in 1984 and (barely) released two years later, came out before the upsurge of independent cinema in the U.S. It's far from perfect: the low budget shows in some of the roughness in the editing and photography; the plot tends to meander, particularly in the middle section; some of the events and dialogue have a slight nonsequitur quality; the subsequent career of the director, Rick King, has been undistinguished. Yet the cumulative power of "Hard Choices" is impressive, largely because it is superbly acted down to the smallest bit part. Some of the supporting actors in this film--John Sayles, Spalding Gray, Martin Donovan, the late J.T. Walsh--went on to bigger and better things, deservedly so. It is a disappointment bordering on tragedy, however, that the leads in this film vanished into obscurity--doe-eyed Margaret Klenck, an offbeat and sexy actress more European than American in style, and rawboned, likable Gary McCleery, who splits the difference between Matthew Broderick and Richard Thomas. Had this movie been made today, in the heyday of indie films, these two would have become household names on the basis of their performances here.

Great Movie! Great Acting! Great Comedy!

Great Movie! Great Acting! Great Comedy!

Great Movie! Great Acting! Great Comedy!

This is a very good movie and one of my all time favorites. It is based on a rugged settler who builds his home on a piece of land that is designated by the Indians as their sacred burial ground. Unbeknownst to the settler and his Indian bride, he weathers attacks by the angry Indians who try to push him from their land. The setting takes place in a wooded, mountainous region of the United States and is very picturesque. The movie is filled with action and the actors are very realistic and believable. The settler shows a keen wit and is able to ward off multiple attacks at his homestead and while on horseback on the trail. He is later joined by a mountain man who helps negotiate with and is later killed by the Indians in an attck at the homestead. If you enjoy Indian history and want something that the entire family can watch together this is a very good movie and a collector VHS which can be enjoyed for many years. I highly recommend this movie.

I couldn't believe my eyes and ears, at the beginning, at the altar, when Eddie Murphy's head comes out of his zipper, I couldn't believe how awful it was. AND it sets the tone for the whole movie. Bad taste galore, the worst kind, and it's not the least bit funny. The family monologues aren't the worst (never heard anything unfunnier), and then of course the fart-jokes,
Really, movie-making has never sunk any lower.
I'd say this is the most vulgar thing ever seen on tv, and that's counting the Osbournes!

This movie proves, once again, that the sequal never lives up to the original. The Klumps, trying to ride on the tails of its predecessor, attempts to give the one-dimensional Klump family a second dimension to their characters. FAILED! While the movie is very funny (why it got a second star in my opinion), it tried to take on a more serious family aspect which left the film dragging slowly to the next punch-line delivered by Eddie Murphy in any of his hilarious disguises. If you want a funny movie, I suggest going with the first Nutty Professor where the one-sided Klumps are more suited for their roles, though less present in the overall story line. If you're an avid fan of Grandma Klump and her "Cletus-cutdowns," then this is your movie... though I could have done without seeing her making moves on Buddy Love. Enjoy your movie experience! :)

In my review of the movie The Nutty Professor II which was released in 2000 I attempt the rate the movie based on its potential appeal to viewers. The Movie director is Peter Segal and it is from Universal Studios. The main actor in the Nutty Professor II is Eddie Murphy who plays many characters in the movie (Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, the grandmother, etc) and the primary actress is Janet Jackson who plays Denise Gaines.

The movie setting starts out with Sherman dreaming that he is getting married to his assistant professor (Denise Gaines). Then he starts having sexual reactions when he looks at Denise breast sticking out in her wedding dress. Buddy Love reappears coming out of his rear end. Buddy Love keeps Sherman upset because he controls his personality and intelligence and has him saying rude things to everyone. Sherman is trying to get Buddy Love out his system.

Denise Gaines tells Sherman she cares for him once she finds out that she is being offered a job in Maine. And then Sherman goes to confess his love to Denise but Buddy Love takes over and he starts doing sexual actions toward her, which Denise gets very upset.

This movie is very funny and it will keep your attention. I like the more serious movies that Eddie Murphy has played in. It is just amazing how Eddie played 5 different characters in this movie. And for Janet Jackson she is a very good actress, more than she gets credit for.

If you like funny movies you will like this one. But I would not purchase for my movie collection.

I couldn't believe my eyes and ears, at the beginning, at the altar, when Eddie Murphy's head comes out of his zipper, I couldn't believe how awful it was. AND it sets the tone for the whole movie. Bad taste galore, the worst kind, and it's not the least bit funny. The family monologues aren't the worst (never heard anything unfunnier), and then of course the fart-jokes,
Really, movie-making has never sunk any lower.
I'd say this is the most vulgar thing ever seen on tv, and that's counting the Osbournes!

This movie proves, once again, that the sequal never lives up to the original. The Klumps, trying to ride on the tails of its predecessor, attempts to give the one-dimensional Klump family a second dimension to their characters. FAILED! While the movie is very funny (why it got a second star in my opinion), it tried to take on a more serious family aspect which left the film dragging slowly to the next punch-line delivered by Eddie Murphy in any of his hilarious disguises. If you want a funny movie, I suggest going with the first Nutty Professor where the one-sided Klumps are more suited for their roles, though less present in the overall story line. If you're an avid fan of Grandma Klump and her "Cletus-cutdowns," then this is your movie... though I could have done without seeing her making moves on Buddy Love. Enjoy your movie experience! :)

In my review of the movie The Nutty Professor II which was released in 2000 I attempt the rate the movie based on its potential appeal to viewers. The Movie director is Peter Segal and it is from Universal Studios. The main actor in the Nutty Professor II is Eddie Murphy who plays many characters in the movie (Sherman Klump, Buddy Love, the grandmother, etc) and the primary actress is Janet Jackson who plays Denise Gaines.

The movie setting starts out with Sherman dreaming that he is getting married to his assistant professor (Denise Gaines). Then he starts having sexual reactions when he looks at Denise breast sticking out in her wedding dress. Buddy Love reappears coming out of his rear end. Buddy Love keeps Sherman upset because he controls his personality and intelligence and has him saying rude things to everyone. Sherman is trying to get Buddy Love out his system.

Denise Gaines tells Sherman she cares for him once she finds out that she is being offered a job in Maine. And then Sherman goes to confess his love to Denise but Buddy Love takes over and he starts doing sexual actions toward her, which Denise gets very upset.

This movie is very funny and it will keep your attention. I like the more serious movies that Eddie Murphy has played in. It is just amazing how Eddie played 5 different characters in this movie. And for Janet Jackson she is a very good actress, more than she gets credit for.

If you like funny movies you will like this one. But I would not purchase for my movie collection.