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Bull Durham (1988)

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2008-10-13 01:20:31 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...movies that have been so corny, especially if you love the game of baseball - this movie feels authentic, smells authentic and plays authentically and it is genuinely a funny, funny movie. Siskel: They say everybody has one story to tell and to write what you know about? This guy Shelton sure did it. The film went on to gross $50.8 million at...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Longest Yard (1974)

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2008-10-10 04:20:38 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...movies like The Dirty Dozen , Aldrich substituted Ernest Borgnine with Michael Conrad in the role of Nate Scarboro, and instead of Richard Jaeckel, cast Ed Lauter as Captain Knauer. Equally unknown to movie audiences were the pro football players who made their acting debuts in the picture: Dino Washington, Ernie Wheelwright, Ray Ogden,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Boogie Nights (1997)

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2008-10-07 01:12:47 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...movies and drug problems entirely for granted, and by fondly embracing a collection of characters who do the same. Marjorie Baumgarten in the Austin Chronicle commented, From the second it begins, Boogie Nights seizes your senses and pulls you right in: no turning back, no time for debate, no regrets, while Emmanuel Levy summed up the film...
 
 
 
 
 
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Liev Schreiber

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2008-10-04 01:09:11 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...movies. I was better at the smaller, more charactery things that fit into my background as an actor than playing the leading man, or at least people would more readily see me in those roles In 1995, Schreiber was on television in a Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Sunshine Boys and in the CBS mini-series Buffalo Girls . That summer,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fight Club (1999)

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2008-10-01 00:56:33 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
Synopsis People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden, narrates a young man we will know only as The Narrator (Edward Norton) as someone holds a gun barrel in his mouth. Minutes before hes about to witness dozens of other office buildings explode in a controlled demolition, he explains how he got here. Sleepwalking through life as an...
 
 
 
 
 
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Spirited Away (2001)

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2008-09-28 03:18:13 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
Synopsis As a sullen 10-year-old girl named Chihiro (Daveigh Chase) mopes in the backseat of her parents car, her mother (Lauren Holly) tries to cheer her up. Quit whining. Its fun to move to a new place. Its an adventure. Winding up through the hills, her father (Michael Chiklis) seems to get them lost. Instead of finding their new home, he...
 
 
 
 
 
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Clea DuVall

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2008-09-25 01:11:30 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
Clea Helen Detienne DuVall was born September 25, 1977 in Los Angeles. She grew up in her words in the shitty parts of Hollywood. An only child, DuVall spent a good deal of adolescence by herself, memorizing scenes from Annie , The Empire Strikes Back , or The Jerk and performing them for her parents. Her mother and father divorced when DuVall...
 
 
 
 
 
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A River Runs Through It (1992)

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2008-09-23 00:58:32 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
Synopsis As an old man threads a fishing line on the Big Blackfoot River, a narrator (Robert Redford) begins: Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me, Norman, you like to write stories. And I said, Yes, I do. Then he said, Some day when you are ready, you might tell our family story. Only then will you understand what happened,...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gary Cole

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2008-09-20 01:16:47 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
...movies, Cole got his next break in 1988, when NBC offered him the lead in his own series, Midnight Caller . The hour mystery/drama centered on a fallen cop named Jack Killian, who finds redemption as a San Francisco talk radio host with a knack for exorcising the demons of his callers. Stephen King was one of many fans of the series, which...
 
 
 
 
 
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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2008-09-19 00:52:24 by Joe Valdez in This Distracted Globe
Synopsis In the town of Signal, Wyoming in 1963, two ranch hands file in and are hired by a rancher (Randy Quaid) whose sheep need to pasture on Brokeback Mountain. The camp tender, Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) doesnt say much, only that he used to come from ranch people. The herder, Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the son of a rodeo rider. As...