Some middling viewing recently---

FIRST VIEWINGS:


League Of Gentlemen (1960) Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough, Roger Livesey. Great cast in a caper film that is surprisingly boring. And a let down at "the end." I really didn't care how it came out. Just wanted it to end. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052997/combined

How To Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) Sidney Young, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox. Strange lead character, a writer at a magazine in London, who ends up at a large publication in New York. How he becomes a success is the story. It takes a while to get to like this guy so I can't say I cared much about the story. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455538/combined

Pieces Of April (2003) Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt. The rebel daughter lives with her black boyfriend in a seedy apartment in a really bad NYC area. Her Mom back in a Pennsylvania suburb is fighting terminal breast cancer. So she invites the whole family to have Thanksgiving dinner with her. She starts the day getting the turkey stuffed in a disgusting kitchen. Then! discovers her oven is broke! So lamely goes from apartment to apartment trying to find a working oven. Meanwhile her family starts a road trip and we learn how dysfunctional they all are. I stuck to the end but it was a really unlikeable group of people. 5/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311648/combined

The Lucky One (2012) Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner. Veteran treks across country to find woman in picture he felt was his lucky charm that gets him home safe. He finds her in a town in Louisiana living with her grandmother and her son. He doesn't tell them how he came to their place but takes a job offer when they think he is answering an ad for help. Ups and downs of his relationship with them and others in the town and how he gradually wins their trust and love. Lovely old homes, trees dripping moss along the bayous. 6/10 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1327194/combined