Nell

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Summary: Unforgettable; immensely powerful performances
Review: "Nell" tells a parable of how we understand each other by standing in each other's places. In other words, it is a movie about healing. "Nell" shows us a three-way emotional dance between a "wild woman," a country doctor, and an academic psychologist. Nell is the "wild woman" whose self-sufficiency fascinates Dr. Jerry Lovell. Lovell, emotionally raped by a past marriage, approaches Nell with fear and trembling. But he is fascinated by the possibility of self-sufficiency. Into this situation marches Dr. Paula Olson, rendered hard by abandonment and academic medicine, armed with needles and nosology. In the most beautiful of forests they meet, in a healing dance subtly orchestrated by Nell, the person they imagined they would rescue. There's more to the story-but see it for yourself. Warning: "Nell" is not intended to be a clinically accurate picture of idioglossa (private speech developed in social isolation). It is a parable about the "different," the "backward," and the outcast person, who lives in a "far country" that every damaged child must visit.

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Summary: AMAZING PERFORMANCES!!
Review: "NELL" is such a great movie because it such amazing acting, by both Liam Neeson and Jodie Foster. I'ts wonderful,EVERYONE should see it!!!!

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Summary: Jodie Made All The Difference...
Review: All I have to say is that this is another movie in which Jodie proves to us that she's THE perfect acting machine! The movie itself is okay/good, but the unforgettable performance that Miss Foster gave made the movie better than if it would have been another actress instead of her playing the demanding and complex character of Nell.

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Summary: Nice performce from Foster in dull movie
Review: An impressive performance by Jodie Foster can't turn a dull script into a decent movie. The other characters are cardboard, containing no ambiguity, with each being villains out to destroy Nell or heroes out to save her. A weak, flowery too pat ending just makes things all the worse.

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Summary: WARNING
Review: Fellas-
Trust me here. Dont let your girl rope you into this one.
Just say no.

or else its...
MEESSAAAA CHICKOBEEEE...
for 8 hours.

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Summary: Beautifully haunting.
Review: Filmed just a few minutes from my house in North Carolina, this film is one of my most beloved favorites. Jodie Foster's performance rocks and evokes tears in the audience. The music is also touching and emotional and the photography is a superb standout. A winner all around, and my homeland never looked more gorgeous.

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Summary: When i wasn't laughing, i was totally embarrassed
Review: for those of you who giggle at the idea of a big hollywood star playing a retarded person, you'll die laughing at this one! this movie was horrible! jodie foster plays a retarded hillbilly who's lived in the woods a bit too long & speaks russian pig latin. liam neesan plays her oh-so-concerned social worker/doctor who secretly has the hots for her & should have been brought up on stalking charges if you ask me. natasha richrdson plays his girlfriend/doctor who seemed to be doing all she could to get liam & jodie in the sack....all for the sake of science of course! at one point they hand her a how to manual on sexual positions while they giggle in another room...i mean the woman had the mind of a 5 yr old, she couldn't even spell her own name & those two are shoving sex books in her face?! in another scene liam & jodie get naked in a lake while his "understanding" girlfriend looks on as liam teaches her something new about life? i didn't read the book & i am no prude but this film was stupid. it tried be a heart warming tale about a innocent woman-child & how by her simplistic & loving nature changed 2 jaded city types. it was predictable, corny & unintentionally very funny at times. if you want to laugh--i highly recommend it, otherwise forget it.

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Summary: Jodie Foster....unplugged
Review: Here is the quintessential film for all devoted Jodiephiles, for the rest of you, it is just OK. Being a devoted fan, I loved this film and feel it is a must see, for those of us who love Ms. Foster. Sure there are continuity problems, some suspension of disbelief is required here, but all in all it is the bare essence of Fosters performance, and her wonderful accent, and her sincerity that make this film special. She really, really believes this and so do the devoted. The nonbelievers, the infidelis will scoff, but true members of the "Church of Jodie Foster" will shout it's praises. I did.

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Summary: Very moving; watched 3x straight; great script & acting.
Review: I just finished watching this film for the third time straight, having started at midnight, and kept on past dawn, rewinding various scenes to watch several additional times. The acting from Foster, Neesen and Richardson is excellent throughout, and the script is wonderfully structured, with hard-hitting (and NOT needlessly explained) supporting characters throughout. Shockingly, with my first investigation on the internet (just 5 minutes ago), I found a prominently-placed 1995 review by "Zachary Woodruff" of the Tucson Quarterly, or some such, who reveals his total ignorance of all things cinematagraphically worthwhile by panning the film, having enough lack of taste to pidgeonhole it as simply one of Jodie Foster's excentric roles. The review is so singularly shameful that I must quote it in full: "REVIEWED: 01-12-95: Jodie Foster transforms into Foster Gump for this ridiculous tale of a backwoods 'wild child' who must face the inevitability of dealing with civilization. The movie is a showcase of Everything You Ever Wanted to See Foster Do But Couldn't Imagine She'd Ever Lower Herself To Do: run giggling through the forest, screech in spasmodic fear, cuddle up and coo next to Liam Neeson, dance jubilantly in circles with her shirt pulled up, and look in the mirror while voguing and talking like E.T. Luckily, when Foster isn't stretching credulity, she and costar Neeson actually manage to draw a few moving moments out of the self-important script." The person or insect who wrote this simply has no soul, and wouldn't know top-notch acting, a daring script, enchanting cinematography, and subtle editing if it came up and clothed and bathed him. The comparison to Gump is so facile, and the lack of regard for the truly admirable acting of Richardson (as well as of the actor who plays the grocery-deliverer), is so glaring as to make this pinhead's begrudged concession (that Foster/Neesen "manage to" eek out several moving moments) grossly offensive. This is a fine work of art, and talk-show fans and other Jodie Foster fetishizers ought to have the sense to shut up when they're confronted with a film that clearly transcends any such angle on reviewing it; Foster succeeds in an extremely difficult role, and the beautifully-crafted script makes for a film in which all actors have the chance to be worthy of the highest compliment -- i.e., that they do exactly what is called for to create the tension to be found already in the script, and no more. And they do just this. This is probably the same as saying that the film was masterfully directed. The various difficulties in understanding Nell's language only serve to bring the viewer deeper and deeper into the world the film creates -- provided, that is, that the viewer actually cares to appreciate a good film by, for example, paying attention to it.

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Summary: Amazing movie.... Yes, ALL OF IT.
Review: I love this movie. It is one of my favorites. Jodie Foster is simply amazing as Nell. Patricia Richardson and Liam Neeson were good too as small town doctors observing her behavior... This movie was great, and I don't see why everyone thought the last part of it was bad. Someone tell me.. please! I just dont get it. I thought this movie was great.