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Summary: Corrina, Corrina
Review: This is a very heartwarming story that is perfect to own because you'll want to watch it again and again. It really showcases Whoppi Golberg. She's a great talent and has surprizing range as an actress. All the actors do a wonderful job in this film about a recently widowed father trying find a nanny for his troubled daughter. After many disasterous tries in comes Corrina (Whoppi) into their lives. Her original objective is to remain removed from the family, but falls for them both. As she helps the girl deal with her sorrow she also help the father. Along the way they fall in love.
Director Jessie Nelson based this film on the true story of her and her husband of 40 odd years. The fact that they get married isn't clear in the movie.
Rent it or catch it on TV you'l really enjoy it.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time.
Review: I've been wanting to buy this movie on DVD for myself for such a long time, and I finally did the other day. I just watched it tonight. It's still as great as it was the many over times I've watched it.Corrina, Corrina is a heartwarming film that's heartbreaking romantic, and all around a joy to watch. Whoopi Goldberg plays a nanny who is hired by an Athiest (Ray Liotta) to look after his 7 year old girl, Molly. It takes some time getting used to Corrina and her religous beliefs (because she'd tell Molly that her mother, who had recently passed away, was in Heaven and the father told Corrina not to be telling Molly such things because he and his deceased wife were Athiest), but in the end, the father comes to accept Corrina's intentions and find what's best for his daughter. There are some heartbreaking moments in the film that will have tears running down your cheeks, but there are also moments where you'll be laughing your sorrow away. This movie is pretty much perfect. When Molly's mother died, she became miserable and wouldn't talk to anyone. She wouldn't say one word. But, when Corrina came into her life, Molly slowly became her fun old self and she began glowing once again. This is a great film to watch over and over again and you'll never grow tired of it.
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Summary: The Perfect After-Church Sunday Evening Movie
Review: This was as wholesome as films can get. Coming off of the hits " Sister Act " and " Sister Act II " Whoopi Goldberg decided to target the clean audience that enjoyed both of the films. I saw this movie when it first came out in 94 and I don't remember if it was a huge box office draw or not. To me it's just one of those nice Sunday afternoon movies that allow you to enjoy the film without having to think about an intensive plot. The little girl was terrific and Ray Liotta played the bruised, suffering father to a T. It was impressive to see such a change from the man who usually plays psychopaths in his other movies. Don Ameche was touching in his last role and I enjoyed the family aspect most of all. The only thing I didn't agree with was the pairing of Ray Liotta and Whoopi because it didn't make sense. The two were going along like friends, trying to help Molly cope with her mother's death. All of a sudden the two are kissing one another on the father's lawn. Whoopi and Ray had better chemistry before the romance factor. Then again no movie is perfect. That aside this is still a wonderful film. I have it on DVD and I still watch it when it comes on regular television. This is one movie that explores racism and death positively and negatively and how kids handle the attitudes of the adults around them. I found it fascinating that Molly grew so attached to Corrina she began to think of herself as black and Corrina became the mother she longed for. It's a beautiful movie without sex, violence and profanity. Many movies can't hold your interest without these elements, but Corrina, Corrina will. See it at least once.
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Summary: Charming Genre-Defying Film
Review: Liotta & Goldberg are an unlikely but perfect match in this heartwarming bittersweet story of interracial love. Thoughtful direction, cinematography and casting enhance this highly watchable film which sends some subtley important messages on love, grief and family.
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Summary: SWEET AND WELL HANDLED
Review: Corrina, Corrina is a kind of underrated and cute movie with subthemes about race. Whoopi Goldberg plays a college educated woman who has no choice but to work as domestic help. She is hired as a nanny and maid in Ray Liotta's household after his wife dies and he needs help with his daughter (Tina Majorino). The daughter grows extremely depressed and introverted after her mother's death and Goldberg's influence helps to bring the girl out of her shell again. Eventually Liotta and Goldberg begin to talk a lot and begin to learn more about one another, and there is a chemistry between their characters. Meanwhile, Liotta struggles at work (he is an advertising executive, trying to create clever jingles) and Goldberg struggles with her family. Goldberg's family wants her to settle down and be with a black man and to stop harbouring feelings about Liotta's character. Eventually there are conflicts both about their mixed race relations and about how Corrina (Goldberg) is taking care of the daughter and not consulting Liotta about these decisions. However, as you would expect, everything is resolved in the end. This is not at all a bad movie and in fact is relatively delicate with the subject matter as sensitive as it could be.
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Summary: Captivating Corrina, Corrina
Review: I have only seen about 4 or 5 feature movies starring Whoopi Goldberg and even less with Ray Liotta. Of these few, Corrina, Corrina is my favorite. Corrina, Corrina is a movie with so many heartwarming moments. It is also in the rare category of movies made in the last 2 decades which actually teaches a number of lessons. The lessons in Corrina, Corrina deal with loss, love, giving, hope, faith, art, beauty, optimism, racism, and forgiveness. After Manny Singer's wife's death, he and his young daughter Molly are left alone to cope with their loss. After interviewing a number of unsuitable and eccentric applicant's as for the job of nanny, he chooses Corrina Washington. Corrina is far too qualified for the job. She is a college graduate with dreams of writing liner notes for jazz albums. But she is born too early, for she is an African-American woman, and it is 1950s America. Being an optimist with a strong faith, Corrina becomes Molly's nanny. In the process, she changes the lives of both Manny and Molly. Love blooms effortlessly between the three. Molly sees Corrina as a new mother. Corrina and Manny see beyond one ano-
ther's skin color. They listen to one another. Their tastes in music and their outlook are similar. They fall in love to Molly's glee. But their families and 1950s America is not ready for their romance. All of the actors in this movie were attractive. Whoopi Goldberg never looked better. Ray Liotta's looks and whole demeanor took my breath away. I think it was very courageous to cast Goldberg and Liotta together as love interests. Seeing them together in the film, made me wish that they were a couple in real life. Tina Majorina was precious, and one of the best child actors I have ever seem. I have been waiting to see her in more films ever since I first saw her in Corrina, Corrina. Corrina, Corrina is a nearly flawless film for the whole family.
Rating:
Summary: The Perfect After-Church Sunday Evening Movie
Review: This was as wholesome as films can get. Coming off of the hits " Sister Act " and " Sister Act II " Whoopi Goldberg decided to target the clean audience that enjoyed both of the films. I saw this movie when it first came out in 94 and I don't remember if it was a huge box office draw or not. To me it's just one of those nice Sunday afternoon movies that allow you to enjoy the film without having to think about an intensive plot. The little girl was terrific and Ray Liotta played the bruised, suffering father to a T. It was impressive to see such a change from the man who usually plays psychopaths in his other movies. Don Ameche was touching in his last role and I enjoyed the family aspect most of all. The only thing I didn't agree with was the pairing of Ray Liotta and Whoopi because it didn't make sense. The two were going along like friends, trying to help Molly cope with her mother's death. All of a sudden the two are kissing one another on the father's lawn. Whoopi and Ray had better chemistry before the romance factor. Then again no movie is perfect. That aside this is still a wonderful film. I have it on DVD and I still watch it when it comes on regular television. This is one movie that explores racism and death positively and negatively and how kids handle the attitudes of the adults around them. I found it fascinating that Molly grew so attached to Corrina she began to think of herself as black and Corrina became the mother she longed for. It's a beautiful movie without sex, violence and profanity. Many movies can't hold your interest without these elements, but Corrina, Corrina will. See it at least once.
Rating:
Summary: Charming Genre-Defying Film
Review: Liotta & Goldberg are an unlikely but perfect match in this heartwarming bittersweet story of interracial love. Thoughtful direction, cinematography and casting enhance this highly watchable film which sends some subtley important messages on love, grief and family.
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Summary: Well done, other than the broken items
Review: This was a great movie, but one I think I have to ask is just how many times do they have to feature someone dropping and breaking stuff? We're talking like 4 or so time! That's almost enough for a subplot. :) About half way through the film I was thinking, wait a second, this is 1959 Los Angeles. We're talking pre-civil rights movement. Corrina was being treated as an equal and I felt like the past was being whitewashed like looking through rose colored glasses from current viewpoints. Then all of a sudden they started playing the race card in the latter part of the film and it became evident once Ray Liotta's character became romantically interested in Corrina. I can understand on a dramatic pacing reason why it works well that way, but from a realism point of view it seems like some foreshadowing might have been in order to remind us that it's not a modern tale. The film pulls the heart strings in the right places and the initial focus on the mother who has passed is a real emotional hook. Carrina opening Molly back up after her retreat from life shows the kind of person Carrina is and her zest for life helps bring Molly back out of her shell.
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Summary: Corrina, Corrina
Review: This has to be the best Whoopie Goldberg movie ever. She usually acts in "rough" movies which we don't let our children watch, but this was more for the whole family. She plays a nanny for a little girl who has lost a mother, and comes into the family with the idea of just being the "maid and babysitter", but soon falls for the little girl she's caring for, and her father. Ray Liota does a great job in this movie also. This movie will tug at your heart strings, and make you laugh. It also shows us how prejuduce some people are, and were back in those days, when it was socialy unexceptable for people of color to be with white people. It's a sweet movie that you will enjoy with your children without fear that sex or violence with ruin the movie for your children.
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