Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition)

Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition) Review

I think this movie is a good movie and it tells the true story of Beverely, a spunky and beautiful and intelligent young women growing up in the 1960s who wants to grow up fast, and her father forbids it, at the age of eleven she wants a bra and he says no way. At sixteen, she meets a guy from the other side of the streets and she sleeps with him, and gets pregnant. This leads to her telling her parents, which she does through a letter reveling that she is a talented writer and has lots of writing ablity. She is a good writer, and wants to pursue her dream. Her best friend Fay(played beautifuly by Brittany Murphy)encourages her and she revels she is pregant herself. They raise their children together, Beverely has a boy named Jason and Fay has a little blonde named Amelia. Beverely marries the druggie guy and they begin a life together, but it doesn't last mostly because he drinks and does dope and when she finally catches him, she tells him to leave. This hurts Jason, whose very close to his father. However, she raises Jason and she works hard to make a life for herself and her young son. Amelia leaves with her daughter after the two best friends are caught growing weed together in their house. This hurts Beverely, who loves Fay and the two have been very close since when they were teenangers. The two girls were always there for each other, and their friendship is quite genuine. The son grows up however and his mother writes her book, a memior called Riding in Cars with Boys which is about her memories of growing up in Connectuitt in the 60s having a baby and raising a son. They drive to her former husbands house and beg for his premisson to use the stuff in the book so Beverely can publish it. He refuses at first, but meets his grown son and sees what a decent young man he turned out to be and finally signs the paper. Beverely gets her wish, though she and her son have a fight about it and he tells her how selfish she is. He leaves at the end, after seeing his mother is perfectly capable of taking care of herself and she gets a ride with her much older father and the two sing as the credits roll, revealing the director's and cast's names. This movie is very funny, heartbreaking and entertaining and most of all you can learn from this young girl's mistakes and not make the same yourself! This movie proves that a young women can follow her dream and make something of herself and also do what she has to do in life. It shows that she dealt with the hand life dealt her, and how she perserved. It is based on a book a memior by Beverely and she wrote about it and is a talented and interesting author and a great writer. She hated the movie, and wondered why Drew Barrymore was playing her. But anyway the movie is okay and not horrible or anything but it is pretty good and Drew does a good job doing something from comedy to more serious acting. Steve Zahn does a good job playing her boyfriend and husband and Brittany Murphy does a brillant job playing her best friend, the two have chemistry since the minute you see them on screen together. I think the movie is a little out there and long, but it does have a good moments and maybe people can relate to those moments as well.

Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition) Overview

A SINGLE MOTHER, WITH DREAMS OF BECOMING A WRITER, HAS A SON AT THE AGE OF 15 IN 1968, AND GOES THROUGH A FAILED MARRIAGE WITH THE DRUG-ADDICTED FATHER. SPECIAL FEATURES: SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, CHINESE, KOREAN AND THAI, AUDIO COMMENTARY BY DREW BARRYMORE, THEATRICAL TRAILERS, FILMOGRAPHIES & MUCH MORE.

Riding in Cars with Boys (Special Edition) Specifications

Riding in Cars with Boys achieves broad appeal as a tearjerker laced with hardscrabble humor. In the crowd-pleasing hands of director Penny Marshall, Beverly Donofrio's bestselling memoir loses much of its real-life gravity, but its rich humanity remains in abundance, especially since Drew Barrymore plays Donofrio with effortless charm. The movie spans 20 years, from Bev's pregnancy at 15 in 1963 (actually 17 in the book), through welfare parenthood with a heroin-addicted husband (Steve Zahn), and semi-adult resentment as her teenaged son (Adam Garcia) takes priority over her ultimate goal of finishing college and publishing her memoir. For all of Barrymore's winning tenacity, it's Zahn's goodhearted loser who gives the film its genuine soul while lending an edge to Marshall's cloying sentiment. The material begs for the subtler touch of James L. Brooks (who produced this and Marshall's more delicate hit Big), but that won't stop this movie from attracting a legion of admirers. --Jeff Shannon

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Burn Notice: Season Three

Burn Notice: Season Three Review

Burn Notice Season 3
16 Episodes on 4 Discs being released June 15, 2010

"Burn Notice" is a series about a spy who was "burned" and had to settle in a city without any records of a past and make due with his surroundings. Luckily for Michael Westen, he ended up in beautiful Miami with all the mojitos you can drink and the great Bruce Campbell in his company. What's so hard about that?

It turns out quite a bit. Jumping into the third season without seeing the previous two appears to be not to challenging a feat as the premise is simple and the episodes engaging. Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) has a relationship with a "trigger-happy" ex-girlfriend, Fiona Glenanne (Gabrielle Anwar) and someone who used to be an FBI informant, Sam Axe played by Bruce Campbell to help him out on jobs that he and the other two plan together to make some money or help out someone in need. This season begins after Michael cuts all ties with his former employers who in theory had been protecting him and now the gloves are off and he is on his own.

Spy training comes in handy in lots of situations and one really enjoyable element of the series is the use of Michael voiceovers to give instruction on useful tricks and techniques in the spy business for whatever he is doing at the moment. It feels almost like a how-to course and when you see him make a complex device out of everyday items to catch the signal of a cell phone, you'll be hooked and wonder if you could make one yourself if given the chance.

Of course, what spy show wouldn't be complete with undercover missions, picking up accents, and lots of explosions? These are plentiful and at the end of the day, the three get to go to the bar together or home to Michael's mother, Madeline (Sharon Gless) and her badly-made birthday cake. Sam stays at Michael's mother's place and is in the process of hefty renovations in season three due to a sun room he blew up presumably at the end of season two.

In this season, Michael has attracted the attention of a suspicious Detective trying to entrap him in any way possible. Luckily for him, he always seems to be one or two steps ahead and even attempts to solve one of her cases to get her to back off. Michael also wonders if getting back into his old line of work would be more secure than his current lifestyle and takes steps to open that door back up even though Fiona and Sam disagree with him. Some villains jump into play to attempt to use Michael's skills and promptly dispose of him. The ending of this season leaves Michael in a great cliffhanger.

Fiona is a hard-as-nails lady who doesn't leave herself vulnerable to her emotions and prefers to take the direct approach in life and in her work. She is coined as "trigger-happy" which is an accurate assessment of her instinctual behavior. She considers romance with Michael to be what Michael's mother calls "trench warfare" so she is always on guard. Sam Axe enjoys courting old ladies with large bank rolls as it affords him the opportunity to drive many fantastic looking cars and he also serves as back-up and reconnaissance on many missions. Michael's mother is somewhat scatterbrained and a terrible cook, but is fiercely loyal to her son and his friends.

This is a very enjoyable action series on the beach with lots of explosions, car chases, undercover character work, and mojitos.

Bonus Features:

There is a featurette on the "Burn Notice" Stunt Unit that lasts almost ten minutes and details how a car chase scene goes down complete with voiceovers from Michael Weston's character and clips from the show to tie it together. Also it has the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International panel for Burn Notice featuring Bruce Campbell, Ben Shenkman, Matt Nix, Alfredo Barrios Jr, Jake Karnes, and Seth Peterson. There are about 10 minutes of answering questions from the audience and Campbell being treated like the rock star he is.

Burn Notice: Season Three Overview

Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 06/01/2010 Rating: Nr

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