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This film about Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrsellasie, who won gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and is considered one of the greatest runners of all time, is a dramatization that often appears to be a documentary. Beautifully photographed, the footage shot in Haile's native land is often spectacular enough to make you think you're watching a Read more

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Beautiful and inspiring...!
This is a movie I would recommend for people who like to think about life, and how dreams and determination can help improve a person's situation... Not recommended at all for people who want adrenaline rushes, unexpected twists, violence, or sex.
three minutes
There is not much here.You learn a little bit about how Gebrselassie became a runner, and a little bit about life in Ethiopia.But the pace of the movie is so very, very slow, you get only the most vague, broad ideas.It is disappointing to be given only a glimpse, not something more substantial -- the vast majority of the 83 minute running time is simply wasted.If you are interested in Gebrselassie's races, you will also be disappointed.There are snippets from one of his Olympic 10,000 meters races, but they probably add up to less than a minute; and there is nothing whatsoever about any of his other races.
one of the greatest, most original films ever made
This film is an original, not a documentary, not a drama, but a completely one off mix of the two, the moving, thrilling tale of Haile Gebresalassie, Ethiopia's greatest runner. It tells tells the story of his life, his childhood in Ethiopia and his stunning career as an athelete. Gorgeous film of Ethiopia, heart-stopping footage of the Olympics. Not to be missed. ... Read more

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Enchanted Cottage
Several year ago I found a copy and have shared it with friends . All have loved the movie and have watched it several times before it is returned. I find it completely delightful and if you like old movies then this one ranks up there with the Secret Garden and Love Affair/Affair to Remember. You will not be disappointed, especially on a rainy afternoon.

Love & Beauty in a Magical House
This beautiful film remains a sentimental classic and has retained its power in its exploration of love & beauty through the eyes of the beholder.
This is a very special movie,where your dreams may come true.Where is the dvd,such as yentl a tree grows in brooklyn etc.
This is an excellent movie where i believe your dreams may come true.Such warmth,love and charm.While this might be considered a chic flick.I think all couples should watch this movie together.Lets hope the us studios release enchanted cottage,and oh yes please dont forget about the us release of a tree grows in brooklyn,shirley valentine,yentl,and of course flower drum song,on DVD!!!! I thank you Stewart L. ... Read more

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DVD!!!!
Why don't DVD of this movie???? It's incredible! Buchholz is great, Caron is great, also Boyer and Chevalier; the story, the charming, the screenplay... all is great in this movie. I can't understand. Where is the DVD?????

One of my favorite Love Stories Ever!
I am 36 year old and saw this movie when I stayed home sick from school 20 year ago.I loved it so much at 16 that I bought the VHS tape.To date, this is one of my favorite movies.I have forced many of my friends to watchthis movie only to have them say that they loved it!Horst Buchholz has got to be one of the best looking sexiest movie stars of that era.I just love him.I'm so sad he is gone.The cast in this movie is outstanding.There is humor, anger, love and happiness all in one movie.Buy it!You won't be disappointed!
ONE OF THE BEST!
One of the most poignant films ever made, I too wish it were on DVD.Handsome actor Horst Bucholtz's is so visually breathtaking and Leslie Caron is wonderful as usual. Supporting actors, Boyer and Chavalier turn this delightful film into a real treat! ... Read more

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Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, Read more

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Hollywood 'wow' with a religious twist
The first reviewer, Mr. Burgraff, said it best: It's DeMille,
Ma favourite
Unlike man's law, nearly 3,000 years ago, Moses was handed God's law -- the Ten Commandments. They are the expressions of the mind of God for his creations;they are the charter and guide of humanity, for there can be no humanity without the law. The Ten Commandments are as modern today as when they were first handed to Moses on Sinai since the struggle between the forces represented by Moses and those represented by Pharaoh is still being waged today. This movie questions whether man should be ruled by God's laws or whether man is to be ruled by the whims of man, Rameses. Is man the property of the State or is man a free soul under God? DeMille believed the message of The Ten Commandments had important personal, social, cultural, and political implications. But what is the real story behind The Ten Commandments? There are different, and sometimes contradictory, biblical accounts of Moses on the Mount. The historical context of these laws are: adultery, perjury, murder, theft, graven images, Sabbath laws, and coveting. What did they mean then? And do they mean anything today? Over the years, many laws, beliefs, and civilizations had rose and fell, but from ancient times to modern times, the definitions, the laws, and morality of the Ten Commandments have never changed. Which leads to my question. What would life be like if Moses never received these ten laws? Deville's final film as a director won the Oscar for best picture, best effects, best art direction, best cinematography, best costume design, best editing, and best sound. It is my favourite movie of all time.

Katherine Orrison's DVD Commentary on the silent Ten Commandments
I wanted to just put this in for those who might be interested.In the DVD commentary on the silent Ten Commandments by Katherine Orrison, she says that the poem on which the female character (in the present day section)has written her "Goodbye" suicide note is probably important but she hasn't time to look it up. I did.It was relatively easy with a quick computer search. The poem that the note is written on is Helas by Oscar Wilde.She was quite correct that it had direct meaning for what was happening in the film at that moment. At this moment of greatest dispair and just before her return to religious belief, this is the poem used.
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Within Reason ~ The Perfect Ingenue
When I talk with people about prejudice. I remind them that blind rejection of someone who could become a very good friend is inane and self-defeating.The same can be applied to those "modernists" who reject the innocent and great movies of the 1930s to the 50s and even some 1960s, because "they ain't with it, man." They'll never know some great joys such as the grand musicalssuch as the great period love story about (in part) the democracizing of France as experienced by New World Travelers.The Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald movies are classic examples, from which many of the greatest American love songs have come."New Moon," for example. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Sigmund Romberg?Untouchable!!
Nelson Eddy and Jeanette McDonald
A PRIME MACDONALD & EDDY MUSICAL.
A beautifully filmed version of the famous 1928 Hammerstein-Romberg operetta.In 1789, the Duke de Vidier, a young French aristocrat, renounces his claim of nobility to further the cause of the revolution by freeing the bond servants in New Orleans.While posing as a deported servant named Charles Michon, the Duke sails on a New Orleans bound ship where he meets the spoiled Marianne de Beaumanoir.......Naturally the above roles are filled by none other than Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, respectively.The working title of this film was LOVER COME BACK, and it was sometimes broadcast on television as PARISIAN BELLE. An earlier 1931 version starred Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett.Buster Keaton and Nat Pendelton can be seen very briefly as bondsmen.The wonderful score includes such perennials as LOVER COME BACK TO ME, STOUTHEARTED MEN, SOFTLY AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE & ONE KISS.The steamboat scenes were shot at Santa Catalina Island by Clyde de Vinna. ... Read more

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This reverential, well-crafted 1951 biopic starring the hulky Burt Lancaster as Native American Olympian Thorpe is hardly the definitive word on one of our greatest track stars, but it does remind us how unfair and demeaning it once was for athletes of color. Concentrating on Thorpe's track and football victories (he also excelled at boxing, swimming, and golf), director Michael Curtiz and screenwriters Douglas Morrow and Everett Freeman (working from Thorpe's autobiography) chart their hero's rise from reservation poverty to Carlisle College track star to 1912 Olympic decathlon/pentathlon winner. Thorpe was stripped of his medals when it was learned that he had taken a few bucks as a football player. Lancaster is even better at playing Thorpe in the depths of drunkenness and despair than in his jock heyday.Charles Bickford is Pop Warner, the legendary coach who encouraged Thorpe to go for the gold, and Phyllis Thaxter appears as the athlete's supportive wife. Thorpe, who served as technical adviser, died two years after this film was released. Thirty years later, the International Olympic Committee overturned the earlier ruling and returned Thorpe's medals to his family. "What does it mean now?" a bitter Lancaster was quoted as saying at the time. Read more

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A True American
The title "All-American" was rarely applied to one who truly was an American and was one of the greatest athletes of all time.Jim Thorpe was a Native American, often called an Indian because of Columbus' original mistake that the natives he encountered in the New World were residents of India, not an entirely new and unknown land.This remarkable 1951 film was one of the rare looks at a Native American who not only earned the title "All-American" but built a reputation as an outstanding athlete.The film makes it clear, too, that he was successful in every sport he tried, often amazing those who thought they knew him.
4 1/4 stars for a great slice of american history
This film certainly has limits: none of the performances are overwhelmingly good, there are too many white people playing natives, and the story sometimes borders on the formulaic.But with that said, do yourself a favor and see it. Whats wrong with this picture?
Not to long ago an athlete was picked as the best(athlete)in our century...Mohammid Ali.He was a great fighter...but what else?How did this man become the greatest athlete of the century? "Whats wrong with this picture"?Jim Thorpe should have been named as the best as is appearent by his accomplishments in several sports.Did Ali win the decathalon or the Pentathalon...25 total events.Was Ali a champion football and baseball player?How can anyone who excels at only one sport be called the greatest of the century...whats wrong with this picture? The wrongs done Jim Thorpe have not been corrected with this kind of judgement. We have the sports writers to thank for this injustice. ... Read more

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Disingenuous
I enjoyed the book back in school immeasurably but the movie blew chunks. I know directors take liberties with movies in their direction. But the book's message and the movie's finale were completely different. Two completely different versions.

One of my favorites
I saw this movie in the theatre as a child soooo many years ago and loved it even though I had a hard time dealing with it (although at 11, I fell in love with one of the characters, Cotton).I remember it was on tv a few years later and again, I put this movie into my top ten favorites, but it wasn't until I was 40 that I heard the Carpenters song - Bless the Beasts and the Children on the radio, the title to this movie, and a flood of memories came back.I had to have this movie in my collection
For those of us who never became cowboys
"Bless the Beasts and Children" remains among my
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Billy Bob Thornton wrote, directed, and starred in this mesmerizing drama with haunting overtones of Read more

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Modern masterpiece!
Karl (Billy Bob Thorton) is a mentally challenged former killer that done a serious crime 25 years ago has been released back home. While he's there he meets and befriends a young boy (Lucas Black) and his widowed mother (Natalie Canerday) whom has trouble with the abusive boyfriend Doyle (Dwight Yokem) as it suddenly remindes Karl of his horrific past.
IS ALREADY A CLASSIC
The only bad thing I can say about this movie is that director/actor/writer Billy Bob Thornton (BBT) will never top it.Watch the included extras on Disc II of this release (over three hours worth) and you'll see that BBT agrees with that prediction."Sling Blade" is simply a GREAT movie, already a classic.It is better each time I watch it.

Excellent, big hearted film
"That Frank, he lives inside of his own heart. That's an awful big place to live in."
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John F. Kennedy lived long enough to see this Hollywood account of his Navy career and his heroism following a ruthless attack by a Japanese ship on his small patrol craft. Cliff Robertson is an amiable choice to play Kennedy, though one won't find a lot of the late president's mannerisms in his performance. The key battle sequence, which finds Kennedy and his crew bloodied and battered while trying to stay alive in shark-infested waters, makes a big impression on young viewers. Read more

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Oustanding movie about fine man, and very good future President!
The absolute best performance of actor
Saved his crew and then the world
For those who have seen this film Barney Ross (Robert Culp) was a source of humor to the PT Men. While this is not played up in the film, the PT Boat brotherhood got Barney a part in the picture as a CPO whom the young jg Kennedy pours cleaning fluid on by mistake. Early in the film when the crew is renovating the boat the actual Barney Ross is the chief telling JFK about sea pearls.
My son loved it
My son is doing a report on JFK and we got him the movie as backround.He loved it. ... Read more

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This minor 1955 work by Alfred Hitchcock, one of the lighter entries of his creative peak in the 1950s, is still imbued with the master's stock themes of shared guilt and romantic ambivalence. It is also hardly lacking in Hitchcockian cinematic inventiveness, such as a famous, often-imitated sequence in which some smooching between stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly is intercut with a fireworks show that just happens to be going on outside in a Riviera setting. Grant plays a reformed cat burglar who is suspected of reviving his trade, though he knows someone else is using his old methods. A very enjoyable experience, but don't get this confused with Hitchcock's other Cary Grant film of that decade, which was a masterpiece: Read more

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Good edition of the movie.
Everybody knows the plot of this movie. So, I can't add anything in that respect. However, I can tell you that the quality of the DVD is very good. Clear picture and sound - great buy.

Hitchcock's Combo Platter: Style, Suspense and Comedy
This is Hitch's least "heady" film -- the sheer physical beauty of Grace Kelly in her prime, Cary Grant in his, and the French Mediterranean in its, they all conspire to confound intellectualization. The screen seems slick with the vapors of the stars' physical luminosity.
To Catch a Thief
You don't get much better than Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and Alfred and Edith Head.Full of fun, danger, and suspence, this suspenceful thriller shows how Hollywood used to make a romantic movie. Alas, can one imagine how this movie would be made today? All guns, car chases and explicit sex and very little plot! Let us be glad we have means of saving these classics for our future entertainment!!!! ... Read more

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Sodom and Gommorrah
The movie was astounding, well put together and of awesome quality. I would treasure it for years to come

Entertaining Hollywood Version Of The Famous Biblical Story
Even for those people not familiar with the stories contained in the Old Testament, when the names Sodom and Gomorrah are mentioned a vivid image will always spring to mind of a world full of vice, sexual depravity, and wickedness. The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah embodied all these human failings and were a natural for the Hollywood film makers to latch on to as subject material once the "sword and sandal", movie craze gripped Hollywood in the late 1950's and early 60's. In fact this story was a natural for filmmakers of this period and contains everything that an epic movie lover like myself could ask for; lavish sets, court intrigue, well staged sword fights, unbridled passion and romance, all wrapped up in beautiful colour photography using actual locations to really enhance the unfolding story. By 1960's epic standards "Sodom and Gomorrah",is a relatively big budget international production that expands on the original story contained in the Bible but amazingly tends to tone down the sex and sin side of it while still being highly entertaining. I only viewed this film for the first time over Easter and I was surprised at how for the most part it avoided many of the more immoral elements of the story. Another production of 3 years later "The Bible: In The Beginning", directed by John Huston is much more explicit in showing the depravity and vice of the twin cities, which makes it an interesting companion piece to this lavish production.
But did it fill in the extra blanks?
This is a very good telling of the story of these 2 cities. However, I'm inclined to ask that maybe it was too long of a movie? This is not a very long story at all in the scriptures, and alot of it was filler of Lot's faith and life. It also shows Lot's side of where he backslid, and hopes to repent, and start anew with God. I'm just wondering if maybe it was a little bit too long? ... Read more

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Completely implausible plot
I fail to understand what the true story could have been that the film is supposedly based on. The plot is completely implausible. Leaving aside the basic premise of the film that Gallimard can sleep with a man without noticing this man was in fact a man and not a woman... just one example: does anybody really believe that the French police (perhaps with the exception of Luis de Funes) would transport two suspects together so that they can conveniently discuss a common strategy of hiding their former spying activiites? Preposterous if you ask me. Not to mention that there were absolutely no bumps on the road during the whole scene in the police van... (was that perhaps a hovercraft?) And there are also more improbabilities that the average European or American eyes fail to see but that left my Chinese wife totally flabbergasted... I wonder if David Cronenberg ever bothered to consult experts in the field as is the good practice with movies that involve distant regions, long-gone periods of history or special fields of human activity. Now back to the basic premise of the film, and I am not spoiling the final surprise for anyone because you figure out Butterfly is a man as soon as you have a look at the photographs on the box of the videocasette... my only explanation is that Gallimard was in fact bisexual and because of that decided to play the part of Butterfly himself in this weird relationship... be this a postscript to the dicusssion in the previous reviews as to whether John Lone was sufficiently female to be persuasive... All that having been said, the movie has its good moments and an intensive atmosphere, maybe too theatrical at times, but overall worth watching if you are a fan of things oriental or like to explore sexual ambiguities...

Breathtaking
I don't think anyone could have done justice to writing the screenplay to M Butterfly (based on David Henry Hwang's stage play) than Hwang himself.While it is a bit of a departure from the 1988 play based on the true story of a French diplomat who falls in love with a Chinese opera singer and the disastrous outcome of their affair, as a film it could not have been done otherwise. Who's French??
Yet another spectacular tale of love and maddness with a Freudian twist by the great David Cronenberg. There are some slight flaws with the film such as a cast portraying French people, none of which sporting French accents. But I suppose thats better than trying to do a French accent and it being inconsistant. All-in-all though, a really great, really strange (though not as strange as some of his other work) surprisingly poetic movie. Definately a must see for fans of Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons alike. ... Read more

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This sad and quirky movie by Bill Forsyth (Read more

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It's a wonderful film and I highly recommend it.
Two girls are left with their grandmother after their mother drops them off at her home. She raises them until her death and ends up with their unique Aunt Sylvie. One sister, Lucille, wants to leave her and her sister because she wants something different than they seem to do. She wants a more conventional life that Aunt Sylvie can't provide. The other sister, Ruthie, is similar to her aunt and doesn't mind Sylvie's quirky ways. But townspeople can't mind their business and steps in to see Ruthie is raised how they think is correct.
Appealingly Honest
There are movies that I hardly remember 6 months after watching and a few that stay with me forever.Housekeeping is one of the latter.I'm hard pressed to say exactly why that is.You've gotta' love the Aunt Sylvie character.Perhaps we all long to be that carefree and unconcerned with the demands of conventional society.Maybe it's a sadness felt for the two sisters, so close after being orphaned at a young age who gradually drift apart as one is drawn to a conventional life and one to Aunt Sylvie's.Whatever it is, the film strikes a chord in me that few movies do.It's an honest story with real and appealing characters played with sensitivity and bitter-sweet humor, never for cheap laughs.Maybe that's what people who love this film are drawn to.Whatever it is, for me it has a haunting appeal that hasn't dimmed with repeated viewings.
This Movie Is An American Classic...To Me At Least
Basically I just love the mood of the film.Great acting.Great characters.The best ending ever.I'm kinda a Ruthie type."You've Got A Fish In Your Pocket" ... Read more

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I Watched The Movie And Read The Book!
Based on a book by the same name by Bette Greene this isa good movie about a 13 year old Jewish girl growing up in a rural southern town during World War II,a town that has a prisioner of war camp for German POWs and the girl who is nmaed Patty comes from a dysfunctional home in which her fat slob father is an abusive drunk who hates her and is constantly beating her and her mother is an uncaring wimp who also doesn't care about her daughter yet they love and spoil Patty's little sister Sharon and the only love Patty receives is from the family's black housekeeper and than Patty meets an escaped German POW who it turns out was forced into the German Army and hated Hitler and she strikes up a friendship with him. This is a sad but good movie but can be very controversial. The cast for this movie includes Kristy McNichol as Patty, Bruce Davidson as Anton the escaped POW, Ester Rolle as Ruth the housekeeper, Michael Constantine as Patty's father, Barbara Barrie as Patty's mother and Robin Lively as Patty's little sister Sharon. BTW' a Previous reviewer says she watched this movie in black and white, but this movie first aired on TV in 1978 and isacolor movie so she must have watched it on an old black and white TV set...... This is also a book and I think I actually saw the movie first and than read the book.

Georgia verisimilitude
This a a sweet and tender little movie that conveys a tangible sense of what WWII-era rural Georgia may have been like geographically, culturally, and emotionally with regard to the war.I viewed it recently for a third time over about a ten year period, and it still came across well. really sad and dramatic(spoilers warning!)
This is a really nice movie even though i saw it in black and white i thought it was interesting.And the part where patty's father beats on her is really sad.Its not as good as the book though,theytook out some characters and some parts like at the end she didnt go to the camp for bad girls or whatever like she did in the book.But i think you'll enjoy it anyhow! ... Read more

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One of the best Made-for-TV movies in recent years.
Vlad from New Haven should stick to watching cop shows and shoot 'em ups.He says "The movie is very confusing and it doesn't really show what's supposed to be so significant about Kertz."Really?Spelling KURTZ's name correctly in your review would be a place to start.The film is partly an examination of primitive lifestyles and ancient beliefs, when they come face to face with the intruders from so-called "civilized" society, in the context of what happens to an individual when, as indeed any sane person might, he begins to question everything he previously held to be true.Whether the outcome would be to live the way Kurtz (clearly displayed as an intelligent, literary individual) eventually chose, is open to question, but that in itself is part of the film's allure:What would You/I/A.N.Other do in similar circumstances?What would we become?Alas, modern day tv and movie viewing seems only to consist of sitting in the armchair with a bag of popcorn and yawning during the dialogue sandwiched between the sex, violence and car chases.Vlad, some movies require that you bring a little something to the proceeding yourself, and in so doing you'll take away far more than you ever imagined...not every movie has to have endless explosions in it and square-jawed "heroes" saving the world single handedly at the last minute.The Conrad novel is a very clearly defined portrait of the era in which it was written; European robber barrons plundering ivory in the Belgium Congo, whilst displaying an utter distain towards the natives they encounter along the way, fearing them whilst exploiting them at the same time - The character of Marlow (named as a tribute to the great British writer Christopher Marlowe, second only to, and some claim better than, William Shakespeare; the name Marlowe then being cast as the Knight-errant private eye in seedy Los Angeles by Raymond Chandler) is an "everyman" dispatched by the greedy and wealthy to captain a boat up river and find Kurtz, one of the companies most successful plunderers who appears to have "gone native."What Marlow discovers along the way is far more profound than anything he has encountered before; black African customs and civilized European white behaviour are not so far apart after all; a telling scene is Marlow's repulsion when he witnesses a white European drunkenly beating a black native at the final outpost before his own journey into the darkness.The director Nicholas Roeg captures well nearly every core aspect of the novel, showing clearly that Marlow finds a form of friendship and actual help from the Africans, whilst most of his own (white) fellow company employees make every attempt to prevent him from accomplishing his mission.Heart of Darkness was NOT the basis of Apocalypse Now, and Apocalypse was in no way "the' movie of the book - Heart of Darkness as clearly one of many allegorical inspirations Coppola used in Apocalypse Now, which was far more a "Vietnam experience" movie than it was a European Empire fable.Interestingly, the similarities between the actions of Europeans in Africa and Americans in Asia a century or so later, are clearly apparent, but Apolcayplse Now casts a far wider net, utilising elements of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land alongside many other sources.Considering Heart of Darkness was probably a fairly low budget Made-for-TV movie, one has to congratulate Roeg on achieving such an excellent evocation of the original novel, and extracting such fine performances from Malkovich and Fox in particular.One cannot even