"Véritable fable pour adulte, Big Fish : la légende du gros poisson, adapté d’un roman de Daniel Wallace, fait encore une fois la preuve que son auteur, Tim Burton (The Nightmare before Christmas, Ed Wood), est un des rares cinéastes à avoir su préserver l’existence d’un univers fantastique dans le paysage cinématographique américain. Appelé au chevet d’Ed, son père malade, le jeune William Bloom est bien décidé à faire la part du vrai ..."
"Big Fish tells the improbable story of Edward Bloom, a larger-than-life figure who, like Baron Munchhausen, cannot help bragging about his fabled exploits. As a young man, his wanderlust leads him from his home in rural Alabama into encounters with an unhappy giant, a witch with a glass eye that can foretell the future, a mysterious town called Spectre from which no one ever leaves, and, of course, a big fish that refuses to be caught. ..."
"Elegant, escapist entertainment at its stylishly European best. This Agatha Christie whodunit boasts an incredible international cast as some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters ever created. Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar for her slightly dim-witted, Bible-quoting Swedish missionary. Albert Finney is the dapper detective Hercule Poirot, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. Poirot agrees to interview all ab ..."
"ANNIE is the story of a plucky red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. One day Annie (Aileen Quinn) is chosen to stay for one week with the famous billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks (Albert Finney). One week turns into many and the only person standing in the way of Annie's fun is Miss Hannigan the gin-soaked ruler of the orphanage (played to hilarious perfection by Carol Burnett). Will Miss Hannigan's zany attempts t ..."
"Der kleine irische Ort Butlershill wird von einem Skandal erschüttert. Die junge, unverheiratete Tara Maguire bekommt ein Baby und weigert sich standhaft den Namen des Vaters preiszugeben. Als Dorfhure verschrien arbeitet sie weiter in ihrem kleinen Laden und zieht das Kind gemeinsam mit ihrer Schwester auf. Pfarrer Malone prangert Tara in der Kirche öffentlich an und versucht sie in eine Ehe mit dem Dorfpolizisten Brendan Hegarty zu dr ..."
"Charmless and dull, this adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Aileen Quinn as the depression-era moppet, Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks, Carol Burnett as the cruel headmistress at an orphanage, and Tim Curry as a villain. The film never gets its legs, and there is no sense of setting; it's almost as if the whole thing is happening in a void. John Huston nominally directed--no doubt to make money between his smaller, cheaper masterpiece ..."
"It's life in the Theater with a capital T in this film adaptation of the London and Broadway hit by Ronald Harwood. Though we see other people, the film is really a duet between Sir (Albert Finney), an aging actor-manager who runs his own theater company, and Norman (Tom Courtenay), his dresser, who gets him into costume and, ultimately, into shape to go onstage each night. Sir is on his last legs; Norman is alternately his cheerleader, ..."
"Der Film Annie ist die Adaption des gleichnamigen Broadway-Hits, der wiederum auf dem Comic von Harold Gray basiert. Annie (Aileen Quinn liefert eine sehr talentierte Darstellung und tanzt sehr gut) lebt in einem Waisenhaus in New York unter der Leitung der nicht gerade netten Miss Hannigan (Carol Burnett). Als Annie zehn Jahre alt ist, erhält sie die Chance ihres Lebens: Der Milliardär Daddy Warbucks (ein glanzvoller Albert Finney) möc ..."