Corrina, Corrina
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Movie Reviews of Corrina, Corrina
Movie Review: A very tender, heartwarming and funny film
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is very funny and well-done and heartwarming and very touching and beautiful. The score is beautiful, the best part and the scenes are well-shot and the acting is good. Even Whoopi Goldberg does a great job here, and is a good actress. Tina Majorino is one of the reasons I really love this movie, she's adorable and cute and has a cute voice and is one of the cutest little girls out there in movies that were made back then. This moive is from a long time ago, but it is good. It's very well-acted and heartfelt. It's a about a little girl who is recently lost her mother to death and misses her deeply. No matter what her father does, he can't break through to her world. So he hires a nanny, a black woman named Corrina. She's wise, and caring and most important interesting and thoughful. The little girl takes a shine to her, and eventually comes out of her shell once she opens up Corrina about how she feels about her mother's passing. She wants to die too, but then realizes she must move on with her life. She's a very shy and sweet little girl, Molly but is very alert and confused. She comes to grip with life, and she slowly starts to have fun and enjoy her life more as the movie goes along. She and her father are happy together, but when a magical person enters their world, they feel closer to her and they start to unwind. Molly doesn't want to go to her school and would rather help Corrina clean up a mansion or spend time hanging out with Corrina's kids or lounge around her own house or someone's elses and do housework. She basicaly hates the school because the kids are rude, and they laugh at her. She wants to be alone, rather by herself where she can feel free. She is very stubborn. She is a good fighter. When her father finds out, he is really, really angry and fires Corrina. He demands from Molly to know why she didn't tell him. Instead, she remains silent and in her own magical and wonderful and perhaps even more true to reality existence. When Ray's father's dies, he goes and apogelizes to Corrina. they reconcile, and her father tells her that he hired somebody else to take care of Molly. the film ends with Molly and her Russian grandmother singing. The movie is very thoughtful, entertaining and funny and beautiful and magical and has moments which really touch you. It starts out very quietly, and eventually faids into neutral and gets more hyped as the story goes on. This movie is very good and touching. It's a good movie, and Jesse Nelson does a great directing this movie which is not only a movie about a little girl who recovers from her past wounds to happiness, but about life in a surburban existence which a father and daughter learn about life from a magical woman who comes into their lives when the time is right and needed. I loved Tina especially, she was amazing when she was really young in films like "When a Man Loves a Woman," "Andre," and "Waterworld." She was good in this too, she really shone. She is a very good actress and adorable and very good as Molly. This film is amazing. See it!Movie Review: Everyone in the world should see this...
Summary: 5 Stars
I had no idea of the storyline, one of my sisters has been raving over this movie for a long time and I thought yea right...
Well....from the 1st scene to the last this movie had me involved, using every emotion. but it was NOT a manipulative phony movie. Far from it. The little girl who played Molly- she was exceptional. She conveyed a child's grief and a child's joy with out being phony. All the kids in the movie were wonderful. Whoopi was amazing and she absolutely shone like a star. Ray Liotta played the father but as a real human who makes mistakes along the way but tries his best. The relationship between he and Corrina ( Whoopi) was real and believable and sincere. The relationship between Corrina and Molly was so heartfelt and touching, I could cry just thinking about it. We were all children once. We all have or had mothers. And we can all feel the emotion of this little child who lost her mother and wants that love in her life again.
Oh and the music! The music was incredibly important to the flow of the story, from the classic jazz to the commercial jingles to the gorgeous gospel.
The underlying heartbreak of racism, bad then in the 50's, still bad now but not quite. Interraccial couples are more and more ( thankfully) accepted, but how horrible things were then. But the innocence of children... they do not know color, they are taught that. And the movie beautifully expressed that with out being preachy or heavy handed. We got it. The one scene with Molly and Corrina's niece, when they were sitting outside and Molly asked her if she tasted like chocolate and then the niece asked Molly if she tasted like vanilla, and they licked each other... oh that scene will be with me forever, it was beautiful.
There were other scenes all throughout, on so many levels this was a really perfect movie, with so many issues and lessons and was a movie that treated its audience as smart and able to read between the lines.
I recommend this movie so much! stand on your chair and cheer...NO I mean, stand on your chair and sing!!!!
Sing Sing! This movie was about life love music honesty joy hope togetherness... Everyone in the world should see this.
Movie Review: It's the little things that make this movie great!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a interracial movie that is not heavy handed. Corrina (Whoopi Goldberg) needs a job. She has a college education, but can't find anything other than domestic work. Hey, it's the fifties. Manny (Ray Liotta) has lost his wife and is grieving. He needs a housekeeper. In comes Corrina. There are scenes in this movie that really did it for me. First Molly the daughter does not talk, unable to understand why her mommy is gone. She continually plays a portion of a song her mother started teaching her and stares at her mother's picture. Corrina waits until Manny leaves and sits down and plays the song with Molly. This is the act that helps Molly to open up. Manny starts falling for Corrina and isn't even aware of it. His parents can see it coming and so can her sister. His mom watches at Molly's party (Jenny not invited) as he takes a cigarette she's smoking and puts it in his mouth. Corrina stays at the Singer household way past what is considered normal and does not even request overtime. When Corrina becomes jealous when Manny's friend Jenny shows up uninvited, she threatens to quit.
The smirk on Manny's face when she gives her 'time and a half for overtime' speech lets the audience know that there's more feelings between them than just a working relationship. The kiss under the moonlight as they dance was one of the most romantic I have seen in movies in a long time. It is his father's death that makes him realize how much he misses Corrina and wants her in his life. When Jenny takes the vase that Corrina had broken and glued back together, Manny protests saying that he likes the cracks. Unable to convince Jenny and not willing to tell her why he really wants the vase to remain as is (because it reminds him of Corrina) he takes it from her and smashes it. Manny coming to get Corrina in the end and her letting him know that she would not return as his employee opened the door to the beginning of them publicly acknowledging their relationship first to her family and then to his. The only downside was the ending. I wish they had showed the conversation between Corrina, Manny and his mother that was at the end of the credits.
Movie Review: Now baby go a little easier on those mashed potatoes...
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is somethingesle let me tell you. It has a good combination of all the things that make life interesting. I loved all the characters in the movie. You can tell everyone wanted to make this movie as real and enjoyable as possible. There are so many scenes that make this movie a real treasure.
Originally, my mom had rented it on VHS one day and we sat and watched it. We had to stop halfway through becasue she had to go to work but when she returned we finished it and loved it!!!! Later on we got it again on DVD. I was so overjoyed. Then she let someone borow it and we never saw it again.
I was so upset. Fast forward a couple years later and find it on Amazon and buy a copy for her and myself. The acting is good and there is a lot of fun to be had.One of my favorite scenes is when Molly has to spell out vaccum to her dad after telling him that she won the spelling bee. (This was hilarious and Corrina's reaction is really funny.)
There is also another scene where they are sitting down to dinner and Molly haphazardly let's slip some personal information about Ms. Washington. Just to see Whoopi's eyes during this segment is hilarious and so realistic. I have gotten that look from my mom a great many times.
It's scenes like these that make this movie likable and fun.
Now there are scenes where you may feel sad for whatever reason. It's just a good mixture. I feel the director caught the realistic feel of people living in a time like that. Liotta and Goldberg make a great couple in this movie and that's kind of surprising.
I recommend anyone to watch this movie if you enjoy seeing how relationships develop between people in life.
Movie Review: One of my favorite movies of all time.
Summary: 5 Stars
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.