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Movie Reviews of Angie
Movie Review: Angie DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
Angie I already own this on VHS and am updating my collection.The Service was EXCELLENT the shipping was fast and I am VERY Pleased with both the service AND the product.Movie Review: good, but a fullscreen disc
Summary: 4 Stars
This disc is actually fullscreen format.
On a full screen tv, there will be bars on the top and bottom of the picture.
On a widescreen tv, there will be bars on all four sides, if you set the
Picture Size to 4:3 to view the movie with the proper aspect ratio.
Depending on the player and the tv's capabilities, you may be able to
choose a Picture Size that will at least eliminate the bars on the sides of
the picture - while preserving the proper aspect ratio. My widescreen tv
will only do this, via picture size 'Zoom1', if the tv input is not HDMI/1080,
so I must lower the picture quality to eliminate the bars by using component video
input.
If you like seeing Geena Davis play a woman with attitude, you will like this
movie.
Movie Review: REAL EMOTIONS ABOUND
Summary: 4 Stars
I found this to be an endearing movie. I didn't want to watch, but couldn't turn away from Angie's pain during her self discovery. She has made poor decisions and was always looking for the greener grass, but comes to find she is her own worst enemy, and best friend.Movie Review: All Chick, No Flick
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm not quite sure why anyone felt it was necessary to make this movie. This is the story of Angie, a young Brooklyn woman of Italian descent who leads a rather routine, bridge-and-tunnel sort of existence as an office worker who commutes to her job in Manhattan. She has a circle of friends who seem to lead lives which are more or less similar to hers, the closest of whom are Tina, her overweight, lifelong buddy, and Vinnie, her plumber de facto fiancé who has been her steady since high school. Angie and her father both carry the scars of having been deserted by Angie's mom--an incident shrouded in mystery due to her father's reluctance to discuss the actual events. Angie often ponders her mother's desertion, which eventually motivates her to take drastic action near the end of the film.
We're given to understand that Angie isn't quite as happy as she should be with the routine of her life. When she discovers that she's pregnant, she--realizing it's probably her last chance to do something different--decides to go for broke and not marry the doting Vinnie. She finds her catalyst in Noel, a glib Irishman who practices international law and who has picked her up in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which Angie is visiting alone, having been unable to convince the boorish-but-sweet Vinnie to accompany her. Noel takes Angie's eventual revelation of her pregnancy in stride, carrying on a part-time affair with her right up to her admittance to the delivery room, at which point he abruptly dumps her. Angie's child has a birth defect and refuses to nurse from her. After walking in on her loathsome stepmother nursing the baby, our overwhelmed heroine flees to Texas in search of her mother, closure, and enhanced self-awareness. The ending is rather predictable.
I can't imagine that anyone male (at least of my acquaintance) would find anything to enjoy in this film. It's concerned only with female issues and addresses them on a rather superficial level. I also found it quite unbelievable that Noel would hang around as long as he did; in fact, what possessed him to get involved beyond a possible one-night stand in the first place? Angie is a very pretty, wisecracking young woman, but she's coarse, somewhat vulgar, and a potential embarrassment every time she opens her mouth (a contemporary Stella Dallas?), whereas Noel, despite the eventual revelation of his caddishness, is a cultured professional. Is the clue to his infatuation to be found, perhaps, in his truly appalling haircut? No answer is ever given, although we're nearly as shocked as Angie at his unbelievably callous defection (it transpires that he's married and "kind of" separated, presumably to someone more appropriate but less attractive).
In fact, this entire movie stretches credulity. Post-partum crazies aside, are we really expected to believe that a working-class American girl with a loving, supportive family is going to abandon a newborn?
This film's saving grace lies in its performances; all are excellent. Davis' Angie is appealingly played (although her "Bensonhurst-ese" is a tad over the top) and the support characters shine as well. Jerry Goldsmith's soundtrack is, predictably, delightful. The problem is that despite strong performances, these characters are caricatures and the story is one-dimensional and rather ridiculous, strewn with cliches and the occasional silly platitude that's meant to sound profound. This one can be avoided with no great sense of loss.
Incidentally, for my money, the "Santa scene" is one of the most tasteless performances ever captured on celluloid. Perhaps this was the final straw that broke the camel's back for Noel? We'll never know for sure.
Movie Review: Geena Davis stands out in this "Working Girl/Moonstruck/Juno'-blended flick
Summary: 3 Stars
There is nothing terribly earthshaking about the film "Angie", which is one of those slice of Brooklyn life films that follows from childhood through motherhood Miss Angela Sciarrapensieri and her decisions about life,love and relationships with family and friends.I identified so many story lines that felt queasily familiar and overdone from other films, both earlier and later.Typically, with each of these films, one leading lady shouldered the entire burden of the film to make it work: Cher in Moonstruck (Deluxe Edition),Melanie Griffith in Working Girl and recently Ellen Page in Juno, and for good measure throw in Mary Stuart Masterson in Second Time Around.Here, Geena Davis shows off her Academy Award winning skills (The Accidental Tourist) in another off-beat,sassy, no-nonsense role as a Italian Brooklyn girl whose views on relationships with boyfriends,family,school-days chums and pregnancy are brought to their breaking and breaking-up points.Davis is the "lynch pin" of "Angie" and she is outstanding.This film will be enjoyed solely for looking at a consummate actress doing great work.The story is unusual in that not all of Angie's choices are what you think they are going to be, thus making this delightful and not as totally predictable as the aforementioned flicks.Angie is full of surprises and never leaves this film dull at any moment.Co-stars a very young James Gandolfini The Sopranos - The Complete Series (Seasons 1-6.2), Stephen Rea The End of the Affair and Aida Turturro.
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