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| | White Palace | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Universal Studios | | Release Date : | | 2005-03-01 | | Store Price : | | $9.99 | | Artistopia's Price: $7.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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 Bummed about lack of special features. I would be in them!!
Submitted on: 2009-06-13 |
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| After reading the first several reviews and skimming the remaining ones, I am sad to say that it is a drag that there are no special features. I was an extra in the last scene that was reshot. I am so many years older and married and a mom and it would be so cool for my kids to see me on film. I am in the Middle East now and would be ordering and paying the hefty fees to ship it over but it is not worth it as the movie is not suitable for my kids. I hope one day it includes them and that I am indeed in there!!! |
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 Underrated "Cougar" Love Story
Submitted on: 2009-06-09 |
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| This is a delightful love story about an older woman/younger man who meet by fate and are drawn to each other because of similar tragedies that befall them both. It's a little predictable in the romantic movie formula it follows, but I believe it will enjoy a resurgence in popularity since "Cougar" romance seems to be so trendy now. |
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Romantic character study
Submitted on: 2008-12-05 |
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| I can think of hundreds of reasons why I like this film, but most of all I simply enjoy it. Couple bones with some other reviews, though. First of all, Jason Alexander has a comfortable, charismatic presence in this movie just as he has in every other vehicle he's been in, from Pretty Woman to Seinfeld. Secondly, I guess I'm one of the few people to conclude that DVDs are ultimately better with NO SPECIAL FEATURES whatsoever. Nothing seems to detract from, denude or uncharm a movie more than vanity projects like director's commentaries or promotional featurettes (and everything else under the sun). After the overkill that was Lord of the Rings, I've simply had it. So I'm quite thankful for this packaging, and as you see, it thus comes with a great low price. Finally, though, I'm not that crazy about the restaurant scene--it's a little too much. It could have worked better. But up to that point, it's all hook, line and sinker. There's no dust in her dustbuster, yes. But actually, if it were me and my woman acted up like Nora on Thanksgiving, I'd let the relationship go and seriously consider dating Heidi Solomon. I mean come on, she is ALL that. What was he thinking. Anyway, it's a great film by Luis Mandoki (director) and Sydney Pollack (executive producer), who has now passed. Thanks buddy. |
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MISPLACED INDIGNATION, NOT AN OSCAR TICKET
Submitted on: 2008-03-17 |
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I'm usually amused by movies with Spader in them, not that his character changes much from movie to movie, but then why change a good thing? Likewise for Susan Sarandon who's good as well, though I definitely don't agree with the Amazon reviewer who calls this Oscar material. Or I don't know - maybe this is what the Oscars are all about ... which isn't saying much for the Oscars. This woman had no social graces at all! First she backs old James into a corner over bringing her to Thanksgiving dinner, and then when he finally does, she manages to insult everyone at the dinner - and we're supposed to sympathize with her? She was just rude. And while the party goers WERE rich and somewhat trite, no one was actually rude to her (except his mother - but this seemed to be her personality with everyone). So for all the righteous indignation speeches made by Sarandon's character in other people's homes: A. I didn't beleive it, and B. it seemed misplaced. Or I should say, I didn't beleive it because it seemed misplaced. This is supposed to be the result of her inferiority complex for being a fast food worker and 15 years too old for James. Still, the family should have scorned her more or really looked down on her so that her working class indignation could have seemed more warranted - as it was, I didn't buy it. No one had time to justify her inferiority complex - she was too busy insulting everyone! Not what I'd call a moving performance. But then she's not expected to be reasonable - this is 'drama' after all, not the girl scouts!
And still, this wasn't a bad movie. Predictable most of the time, yes, but the story does move along once it gets going. And there are some good just-this-side-of-the-R-rating love scenes which give Sarandan time to make up for what she didn't show in Rocky Horror Picture Show.. which brings up another issue - while Sarandon isn't in the flower of her youth, she's still looking pretty good here, and she's no dummy either. BUT - we're supposed to beleive this hottie's working at a burger joint at 44? MAD magazine would have had a field day..
Finally though, if you like Spader and Sarandon as actors then you'll probably like this movie. Not incredibly beleivable, but then "Love is a wonderous thing". Better than 3 stars so I have to give it 4. |
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Some Like It Hot
Submitted on: 2007-11-01 |
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Max Baron (James Spader) is a nice twenty-seven-year-old Jewish boy drowning in grief and self-pity over the untimely death of his wife. When he gets shorted at a White Palace on cheap hamburgers he picks up for a bachelor party of his best friend (Jason Alexander), in a fit of self-righteousness, he returns to the hamburger joint to demand justice and meets forty-three year-old Nora Baker (Susan Sarandon). The rest is, as they say, herstory since this captivating film is all about Nora. She identifies with Marilyn Monroe (she has posters of Marilyn all over her messy apartment and reminds Max that she has a similar name as Norma Jean Baker). Beneath all her bluster is a woman living on the edge. She mourns the death of her only child, but Nora is a survivor.
James Spader was thirty when he played in this movie although he looks about eighteen; and we forget that he is really the slightly twisted Alan Shore from the television series "Boston Legal." Susan Sarandon recreates the role she did so well in "Bull Durham," the older woman bedding the younger man, Tim Robbins. As the whole world knows, those two have been together since that movie as mate and mate. She and Spader engage in some of the hottest sex scenes you are likely to see that are every bit as torrid of those in "Body Heat" between William Hurt and Kathleen Taylor and Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in "Don't Look Now."
Director Luis Mandoki manages to turn the Cinderella story on its ear in the character of Nora and asks the question if love can survive this wide an age difference and class chasm. We certainly hope against hope that it can, if seldom in life, then at least in this movie. |
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