A film for whole dysfunctional family
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Well, he was actually a nice guy,&#39;&#39; Billy Bob Thornton says. &#39;&#39;Pretty laid-back as those coaches go. A family guy and all that.
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"Sicko" is a documentary, but it's a comedy, too &#151; and a family drama and a travelogue and, ultimately, a horror movie.
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It may have a captivating title, but this film has little else going for it.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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âSteel Cityâ tells the story of a man and his sons, who struggle with personal and financial demons in a drab Midwestern town.
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'License to Wed' has a creepy subtext for a family comedy.
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Every seven years, they star in a movie about their own lives.
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The story of a dirt-poor but enterprising family thwarted by shocking, stupid acts by jerks armed with red tape and guns produces a single effect: umbrage.
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The film is a classic immigrant saga about how profoundly disorienting it can be to live in two cultures.
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"The Spiderwick Chronicles" may not be in the same fantasy league as the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Yet the family flick based on the books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is an all-around class act, even if its world of ogres and goblins is a bit stale in the wake of its more ambitious cousins in the over-the-rainbow genre.
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EveryoneÂs sorry about something in this glum drama about the way repentance can do more damage than the sin that precedes it.
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Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families?
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The film looks like a children's sci-fi film.
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"The Pursuit of  Happyness" certainly is a decent, well-intended film about a  father's responsibility to his son and his struggles with  homelessness.
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Michael Apted's landmark  films documenting the lives of a disparate group of Brits in  seven-year intervals have always been fascinating from a  sociological perspective. But the latest installment proves  that they are undeniably brilliant cinematically as well.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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The film has its genuinely hilarious moments.