Kramer v Kramer is a movie filled with opportunities for choosing sides. But what actually matters in this movie isn’t who’s right or wrong‚ but if all the characters involved are able to behave according to their own better nature. It starts of by showing a marriage filled with unhappiness and ego and ends with two single people who have both learned important things. There is a child caught in the middle but this isn’t a movie about the plight of the kid but about the dilemma of the parents. Usually
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cross-gender communication‚ pithily summarized at the end of the movie by the lead character Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) when he tells Julie Nichols (Jessica Lange) that he was "a better man as a woman‚ and I need to learn to do it without the dress." "I was a better man with you as a woman than I ever was with a woman as a man. Know what I mean?" Dorothy also known as Michael Dustin Hoffman character has great depth to it as I look at it. Dustin’s portrayal as a woman starts out as an effort to
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In the movies things are portrayed in ways that are supposed to make the movie sell‚ which means that movies are not always accurate. The movie Rain Man was about a man and his brother‚ who happened to be an autistic savant. In Rain Man Dustin Hoffman played Raymond‚ who was a high-functioning autistic savant. In the movie Raymond had routines and rituals that he did; and when his routines were interrupted or he was afraid of something he had a temper tantrum where he would hit his head. He tended
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Kim Peek - Savant The Original Rain Man Preceding the savant Daniel Tammet by several years‚ Kim Peek is the real life Rain Man whom the Dustin Hoffman character was based in the movie. Described as a confounding mixture of disability and brilliance‚ Kim is in love with knowledge. Kim Peek is probably the world’s most famous savant. Kim was diagnosed as being mentally retarded at birth‚ but with father Fran’s unflagging support he has developed a memory that is without equal. Born and raised
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Figuracion‚ Gabrielle Frances R. January 25‚ 2010 BSFT-2 FFP10-BD KUNG FU PANDA (A movie review) Many animated movies had been made and shown throughout the years. There were those who covered great animations‚ few were so-so‚ and most were two thumbs up. Being an animated film fan‚ I chose Kung Fu Panda for a movie review‚ although there are movies I have watched that are better than this. This is because some failed to internalize the lines or script
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“Wag the Dog” was a motion picture screened in 1997 with Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro as lead actors. ‚ it is all about illusions created elsewhere to avoid realities that are current‚ unpopular and to camouflage a foreseeable political disaster. The illusion is to spin or cause a stir like creating a war or some
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In the opening scenes of the movie‚ Dustin Hoffman plays the starring role as “The Graduate” Benjamin Braddock Benjamin is on an airplane landing in Los Angles as he arrives background music plays “The Sound of Silence”‚ and begins with the line‚ “Hello darkness‚ my old friend” plays. The main motifs of this movie seem to play on rebellion against authority; alienation and isolation; sexually dominance‚ and the loss of one’s innocence. Often a young man‚ although educated‚ possibly will perhaps
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loud. While this may be an unintentional bias‚ it is there nevertheless. The film is fairly screaming to women‚ “You can’t handle the truth!” (A Few Good Men). The film‚ Toot sie‚ is can be summarized as follows: Michael Dorsey‚ played by Dustin Hoffman‚ is a brilliant and troublesome New York actor who has managed to alienate every producer on both coasts. Michael ’s agent George Fields‚ played by Sydney Pollack‚ can ’t even get his client a commercial and tells Michael he has been so obnoxious
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staff to take the heat off of the President. He comes up with the brilliant idea to create a false war with Albania. "Why Albania?" "Well‚ what do you know about Albania?" "Nothing." "Exactly." He hires top movie producer Stanley Motts (Dustin Hoffman) to help him with the story and details and to use the endless amount of visual tricks available to them. They create a short grainy news footage piece of a young girl running from her village holding a kitten. She is in fact an actor and running
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Angel Author: Alice Hoffman Born March 16‚ 1952. An American novelist and young adult and children’s writer‚ best known for her 16 novel practical magic which was adopted for a 1998 film of the same name. Her 2000 novel river king was made into a aquamarine (film) staring Joana “Jojo” Levesque‚ Emma Roberts‚ and Sarah Paxton. Many of her works fall into the genre of magical realism and contain element of magic‚ irony and non-standard romances and relationship. Alice Hoffman is the author of numerous
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