![]() ![]() In typical Pratchett fashion, the less intellectually inclined male (Keith) falls head over heels for this woman who’s so smart, she deconstructs their scam as soon as she witnesses a talking cat in league with a talking rat. After a quick display of Maurice’s (voice of Hugh Laurie) rat plague scam, he, Keith and their rats, who are all named for the garbage they once consumed, move on to the Bavarian-looking fairy tale town where Malicia is the Mayor’s (voice of Hugh Bonneville) daughter. Bunnsey Has an Adventure,’ which we see in traditional animation, before informing us that this is not what our story will be about. ![]() ![]() It will be older kids and adults who will most appreciate “The Amazing Maurice,” a clever twist on the old Pied Piper fairy tale (which, our narrator Malicia (voice of Emilia Clarke), gleefully reminds us is really quite brutal!).ĭirector Toby Genkel and his screenwriter Terry Rossio begin with a fourth wall breaking wraparound featuring the narrator (who becomes a character within the action) reading ‘Mr. ![]() Those familiar with the world of the late comedic fantasy writer Terry Pratchett will know his sense of humor ran dark, so despite the fact that this is adapted from his first children’s book (and 28 th Discworld novel) ‘The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents,’ parents should be aware that events include animal torture and death (albeit mostly implied rather than visualized), the latter occasioning a visit from two of Discworld’s most memorable characters, Death and Death of Rats. ![]()
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Plot edit Actress Suzanne Vale is a recovering drug addict trying to rebuild her acting career and life after overcoming a cocaine - Percodan addiction. ![]() The film stars Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. ![]() Fisher’s frank honesty in her work taught me how to embrace emotions in my writing and share my thoughts with the world through them. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her 1987 semi- autobiographical novel of the same title. She has always been my guide when it comes to writing. I say “most” because I wasn’t aware as an infant of the profound impact she’d have on me, and I believe in my heart that she’d have notes for me if I said otherwise. Fisher has been my hero for most my life. Carrie Fisher was finally honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ![]() ![]() ![]() Performance (1970), also with James Fox, offers another claustrophobic take on later 1960s London. 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It was written by Harold Pinter, who adapted Robin Maugham's 1948 novella. “The thing that is most exhilarating about the film is that it has been written by someone who is obviously excited by the cinema and made by someone who obviously respects words.”Īdapted by celebrated playwright Harold Pinter from a story by Robin Maugham, The Servant sees spoiled young aristocrat Tony (James Fox) carelessly recruit a servant, Barrett (Dirk Bogarde), whose deferential demeanour belies the resentment, ambition and even sadism that will see him incrementally seek to assume Tony’s position for himself.Įxplicitly class-conscious, The Servant plays out as a savage struggle for power, with property, sex and social assurance both the weapons and the prizes. The Servant is a 1963 British drama film directed by Joseph Losey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Life in New York City, specifically the scourge of AIDS (the setting is the 1980s) and the underlying troubles of her marriage. 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