July 22, 2013

Ginger, Jean, Claudette & Nic, Jeremy, Vic---

---perfect films and dogs.

FIRST WATCHES:

Lucky Partners (1940) Ginger Rogers, Ronald Colman, Jack Carson, Spring Byington.  They share a winning sweepstakes ticket and things happen.  Screwy and unfunny comedy that did not make me laugh once.  4/10   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032733/combined

The Family Man (2000) Nicolas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven.  Rich, high powered investment broker, wakes up one morning in a suburban house with his former girlfriend as his wife and has two kids.  Fish out of water , but he gets the hang of dirty diapers etc.  Will he ever get his life back?  7/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218967/combined

The Bourne Legacy (2012)Jeremy Renner stars as Aaron Cross and is very good as the action hero.  Rachel Weisz is Dr. Marta Shearing, the scientist who gets caught up in the chase adventure.  Ed Norton is the villian and various characters from the other Bourne films are also in this one.  I miss Jason but it was a satisfiying sequel.  8/10   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/combined

ENCORES:

History Is Made At Night (1937) Jean Arthur, Charles Boyer, Leo Carillo, Colin Clive.  Romance, obsession and murder.  7/10   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029002/combined

The Palm Beach Story (1942) Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee.  Perfectly wonderful Preston Sturges comedy.  10/10  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035169/combined

Kiss Of Death (1947) Victor Mature, Richard Widmark, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray.  Perfect film-noir with great performance of crazy by Widmark.  10/10    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039536/combined

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