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No, I’m not being facetious! It’s one of Peter Weir’s finest films, features an Oscar-winning turn by Linda Hunt (who you may be more familiar with from NCIS: Not The Mark Harmon Version) and co-stars young Sigourney Weaver.
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She was the front-runner, mostly because of affection for Goldie. Good lord!
How is The Year of Living Dangerously not on this list?
He’s like the poor man’s Grimace.
Your username/comment synergy is wonderful!
You say this like it’s a bad thing.
We should all be so lucky to be that energetic at sixty-one!
Personally, I agree with you on Almost Famous and to a lesser extent, Jerry Maguire. But their critical successes can’t be discounted from the conversation.
Nope, but thanks playing and in all likelihood, projecting your own issues onto someone else. Maybe you should work on dealing with those issues offline, cookie.
The last gasp of a dead argument: Complaining that the presentation of facts and context constitutes “getting worked up.”
Apples and oranges. Two different kinds of films, two different marketing campaigns and two different industry expectations. Singles was a smaller film in budget and casting, and it was geared towards a narrower demographic. How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days was a star vehicle that cost $50,000,000 to make and was a…
Whether or not you personally think it holds up isn’t the issue at hand; it was critically well-received and took in over $18,000,000 at the box office, double what it cost to make. You can’t move it out of the “hit” column because you no longer like it.
It’s hard to believe but Kate Hudson was the frontrunner for an Oscar for Almost Famous. Thank fucking Christ for Marcia Gay Harden and Pollock.
Fighter Pilot Stone obviously attended the same Institution of Higher Learning and Hot Chick’ing as Dr. Christmas Jones and Nicole Kidman’s twenty-three year-old neurosurgeon Days of Thunder.
Don’t forget, Emma Stone is playing a fighter pilot.