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Summary: Superb cast , lush scenery make a great movie!
Review: What a super movie! The interaction between all the characters is great, but especially between Kevin Spacey and John Cusack, and John Cusack and the Lady Chablis! I have watched this movie at least 5 times, and enjoy and learn more each time! Kevin Spacey looks so much like Jim Williams it is eery. Mr. Spacey is a consumate actor with an amazing ability to totally immerse himself in the character he is playing, and in that process, draws the viewer into the story with him! Whether the movie captures the true essence of the book does not matter to me, for the movie truly has the ability to entertain and intrique.
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Summary: I really enjoyed the movie!!!!
Review: Personally I enjoyed the movie. I found it rather interesting and it caught my attention being that I am a Georgia native. I am about two hours from Savannah and was familiar with some of the happenings. I was truly amused with the Lady Chablis. I've watched this movie more than once and I purchased it through Amazon.Com. I enjoyed the movie though I thought that it needed a little work.
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Summary: I loved this movie!
Review: I cannot understand why this movie didn't get a good rating! It was really good. The acting was terrific - John Cusack was adorable and played a very good part. What a fine young actor! I loved Kevin Spacey in this one -- mustache, grey hair and all! Can this man every play a bad part?!?!? Never! Everything he does is top notch; I think I've seen almost all his films. The scenery is so beautiful you want to take a plane and go straight to Savannah! Would love a house like that! The story line was good and I thoroughly enjoyed it! A must-see!
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Summary: Absolutely horrid and confusing...
Review: I guess I am biased because I read the book before watching the movie. I didn't like it one bit, and if I could give it no-stars, I would. I found the movie version extremely confusing. I thought that it would resemble the book in some ways, (by the way, I thought the book was amazing written -- and I highly recommend it). I couldn't follow the story line and I thought that there should have been more character development. The acting for the most part was not very good. Allison Eastwood, who plays the character Mandy, did a good job, even though her character was supposed to be 20 years older than she was. I generally like most movies that John Cusack is it, but in this one he didn't do a very good job at playing the author. I thought his acting was really weak. He wasn't convincing at all as a transplanted New Yorker in the charming Southern city of Savannah. Kevin Spacey, another favorite actor of mine, was completely creepy as the antique collector, Jim Williams. I imagined Jim to be much taller, darker, and handsomer than what Spacey portrayed him to be. And the young actor who played Billy was utterly the worst actor in the film and a bad choice by the casting directors. Not only were the character profiles completely rewritten for the film, but the screenwriters stuck characters in places that the book left them out of. Luther for instance was in the court room jury, which was completely out of place for the film. I felt the stuck him in there, just because he was a great character in the book and perhaps one of his scenes in the movie got cut out. Did they feel they needed to stick him in anywhere they could fit him just to make sure he was in the film? Overall, I was just disappointed by this film version of one of my favorite books. I think it had much more potential as a film and could have been done a lot better. I sincerely feel that John Berendt, the author of the novel, had no imput whatsoever, because if he had, this movie should not have turned out half as bad as it did.
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Summary: Nobel attempt, but misses the mark
Review: It's hard not to compare this screen adaptation to its wildly popular source material. For those who haven't read the book, the movie probably works better than for those who have. What's unfortunately missing from the movie is any real sense of pace and that crucial--and admittedly hard to capture--FEELING of southern decadence. It's not really enough to just show drag queens and men with flies on a leash--the truly great directors create the ATMOSPHERE that such eccentrics inhabit. That said, the additional material contains on the DVD is a real bonus.
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Summary: Surprisingly Entertaining
Review: I was surprised how entertaining this movie was. First of all the movie didn't look all that good to me but wow was i surprised all the performances were well done and the photography was excellent. It starts off kind of slow and only about 30mins in does it get really interesting and the Lady Chablis was provided comic relief most of the time. It's actually a good mystery movie. Kevin Spacey is good a always the plot is slow starting off and but once it starts getting good you can't stop it and Minerva is cool.
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Summary: Great Book and a BAD movie.
Review: The book was a pleasure to read with a wonderful plot. What happened to the movie. I could do better with the movie than Clint Eastwood, i'm sure about anyone could. Do yourself a favor. Read the book and do not watch this movie, it is a waste of your time.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: Painfully bad adaptation of the best selling book, this movie is annoying from the first seen onward. The usually good Kevin Spacey is wasted in a role in which he gives the standard Hollywood southern accent (in other words a bad one) and the Lady Chablis sassy camp routine gets old very quickly. Add to that a case of horrid miscasting with John Cusack and you have one of the most crushing disappointments in recent memory.
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Summary: Beat ya to it Megan.
Review: I thought it was a fabulous movie with intellectual dialogue all throughout the story. Kevin Spacey is a great actor.
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Summary: it was hopeless from the start
Review: i read this book and adored it like most people. when i heard that they were making it into a movie i was saddened because i knew it was too delicate and complicated of a story to ever work as a movie. i vowed not to see it but eventually curiousity got the best of me. it was neat that chablis played herself/himself but they took a story as rich as southern bourbon and completely watered it down, taking away all the flavor and richness. even the beautiful city of savannah looks mundane. the characters were all bland, especially alison eastwood as mandy. coincidence that she's the director's daughter? i think not. the only good thing i have to say about this movie was the amazing performance by mr. kevin spacey. yes he played a gay man in this movie but that did not stop me from falling even deeper in love with him than i already am. he is exactly how i pictured jim williams from those eyes "like the widows of a limosine" to that gorgeous smirk of his. so in summary this movie was a disapointment but i suggest you rent it just to see the national treasure that is kevin spacey.
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