"ItÂ's 1962 and BaltimoreÂ's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion—to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program The Corny Collins Show and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. But can this newcomer beat out the showÂ's pretty but mean star, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her Â'do? Only in this nov ..."
"Still photographs and quotes from the movie present its plot, from Tracy's first song about Baltimore to her quest to integrate The Corny Collins Show."
"Carl Reiner made this enjoyable romantic farce about a divorced couple who commence an affair at their daughter's wedding. Reiner lets the idea bounce around the story's setting and characters so that the full comic effect of the illicit relationship can be felt more chaotically, building on its own irony. Bette Midler and Dennis Farina are quite believable and likable as the not-so-estranged-anymore couple, and Paula Marshall is very g ..."
"Snoopy sits atop his doghouse, banging out stories on a manual typewriter: Usually they begin "It was a dark and stormy night." Always they're rejected. In Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, a roundup of thirty famous writers and entertainers respond in short, 500-word essays to a favourite strip. Each essay focuses on how the strip presents an aspect of writing life - getting started, getting rejected, searching for new ideas - that t ..."
Outrageous Fortune The Screenplay by LeslieDixon 242 Pages, Published 2002 ISBN-13: 978-1-931436-61-8, ISBN: 1-931436-61-4
"The wedding from hell just sparked a match made in heaven! Comedy legend Carl Reiner directs the hottest couple of the year, Bette Midler and Dennis Farina in an irresistibly funny, incurably romantic motion picture that celebrates the "lighter" side of love. Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still have one thing in common, they hate each other with nuclear capacity. But after a knock-down, drag-out fight at their daughter's ..."
"Bei schlechten romantischen Komödien schüttelt man den Kopf angesichts der Absuditäten – bei guten wünscht man sich, dass das eigene Leben so absurd wäre. Solange du da bist ist so schlau und liebenswert gemacht, dass man sich Letzteres wünscht. David (Mark Ruffalo, Collateral) zieht in ein tolles Apartment in San Francisco ein – und findet heraus, dass dort der Geist der Vormieterin, einer übermäßig ehrgeizigen Ärztin namens Elizabeth ..."
"Nachdem er mit seinem Film Slacker, mit dem er eine ganze Generation neu definierte, die Welt veränderte, richtet Regisseur Richard Linklater mit Dazed and Confused nun seinen umherstreifenden Cinema-Vérité-Blick auf die 70er-Jahre. Wie schon beim ersten Film wandert sein untrügliches Kameraauge durch Landschaften, in denen es vor Bezügen auf die Popkultur sowie scharfen Einblicken in die menschliche Natur nur so wimmelt. Diesmal allerd ..."
"Out of college for the summer and on the outs with his girlfriend Jenny, Randy Bodek (Patrick Dempsey) lines up the perfect "summer vocation." As Senor Pizza's busiest delivery boy, Randy's route takes him to the finest homes and some of the most gorgeous women ever to grace Beverly Hills. But it's not long before "take out" turns to "make out" when Randy realizes that his customers want something more than the regular fare! After le ..."
"In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her forty-something psychiatrist mom Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals, and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as her befuddled fiance (Mark Harmon), who does ..."
"In the tradition of THE PRINCESS DIARIES, Disney's FREAKY FRIDAY is the extremely funny and heartwarming comedy everyone will love. Dr. Tess Coleman (the hilarious Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (rockin' Lindsay Lohan) have one thing in common -- they don't relate to each other on anything. Not clothes or men or Anna's passion to be in a rock band. Nothing. Then one night a little mystic mayhem changes their lives and t ..."
"The last film in the minifranchise goes to the dogs, literally, to keep the series' major gimmick intact--letting the audience hear the thoughts of the little newcomers in the Ubriacco family. The kids who were once babies in the two prior films can now babble for themselves, so the script finds the adult characters taking in two mutts who do a "Lady and the Tramp" thing while we listen in. Travolta (rescued a year later in 1994's Pulp ..."