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Summary: Wonderful Movie and Music
Comment: This was a excellent movie, with no R rated contents and a meaningful story. I highly recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: worst movie i've ever seen in my life...
Comment: it's just unbearably cheesy. not in the way that disney films are so that adults can enjoy them. this is just awful. filled with cliches and bad 90s style music and horrible acting.
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Summary: You're Kidding, Right?
Comment: A preponderance of 5-star reviews for THIS? The state of the Union is worse than I thought.
This is one of those movies that are so bad they're embarrassing to watch. At least outrageous clunkers like "Tough Guys Don't Dance" and "Mars Needs Women" are good for a laugh. This phony, complacent, overwrought dreck lacks even that redeeming value. If a cloying pastiche of clichés like "August Rush" doesn't insult your intelligence, nothing will.
Freddie Highmore is a talented child actor. If you're a fan, you'd do better to catch his performance in "Finding Neverland," a film worth watching.
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Summary: An urban update to Showboat with a Dickens twist
Comment: Freddie Highmore is wonderful. I can tell that the producers of this movie are huge fans of the movie Showboat, particularly the 1936 version starring Irene Dunne. The 1936 version departs from the book and other versions of the movie and the play, but it is considered the classic version of Showboat. I am a classic movie lover myself, and this movie is part of my DVD collection. The relationship between the couples in both movies share common elements. The naive, sheltered girl falls for the guy from the opposite side of the track. She has an overbearing, overprotective parent. The couple separate. Years pass, and the couple reunite on their child's big night on stage. The movies even end the same way. The big difference is that the child in Showboat is always with the mother, but the child here is an orphan, and the movie centers around his efforts to find and reunite with his parents. I enjoyed this movie.
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Summary: Kevin Kenny
Comment: It is an excellent movie one that I particularly wanted to keep. What surprised me was that the DVD in the case had no markings what so ever. It was a regular unmarked blank that had a very good copy of the movie recorded on it. If it did not come from Amazon I would have assumed it was an illegal copy. I had to identify it with a marker so it would not get mixed up with my many back up DVD copies of stuff I keep on my computer. Very strange.
Summary: Wonderful Movie and Music
Comment: This was a excellent movie, with no R rated contents and a meaningful story. I highly recommend it to everyone.
Customer Rating:
Summary: worst movie i've ever seen in my life...
Comment: it's just unbearably cheesy. not in the way that disney films are so that adults can enjoy them. this is just awful. filled with cliches and bad 90s style music and horrible acting.
Customer Rating:
Summary: You're Kidding, Right?
Comment: A preponderance of 5-star reviews for THIS? The state of the Union is worse than I thought.
This is one of those movies that are so bad they're embarrassing to watch. At least outrageous clunkers like "Tough Guys Don't Dance" and "Mars Needs Women" are good for a laugh. This phony, complacent, overwrought dreck lacks even that redeeming value. If a cloying pastiche of clichés like "August Rush" doesn't insult your intelligence, nothing will.
Freddie Highmore is a talented child actor. If you're a fan, you'd do better to catch his performance in "Finding Neverland," a film worth watching.
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Summary: An urban update to Showboat with a Dickens twist
Comment: Freddie Highmore is wonderful. I can tell that the producers of this movie are huge fans of the movie Showboat, particularly the 1936 version starring Irene Dunne. The 1936 version departs from the book and other versions of the movie and the play, but it is considered the classic version of Showboat. I am a classic movie lover myself, and this movie is part of my DVD collection. The relationship between the couples in both movies share common elements. The naive, sheltered girl falls for the guy from the opposite side of the track. She has an overbearing, overprotective parent. The couple separate. Years pass, and the couple reunite on their child's big night on stage. The movies even end the same way. The big difference is that the child in Showboat is always with the mother, but the child here is an orphan, and the movie centers around his efforts to find and reunite with his parents. I enjoyed this movie.
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Summary: Kevin Kenny
Comment: It is an excellent movie one that I particularly wanted to keep. What surprised me was that the DVD in the case had no markings what so ever. It was a regular unmarked blank that had a very good copy of the movie recorded on it. If it did not come from Amazon I would have assumed it was an illegal copy. I had to identify it with a marker so it would not get mixed up with my many back up DVD copies of stuff I keep on my computer. Very strange.