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'Ella Enchanted'
!["Ella Enchanted," a breezy take on "Cinderella," is likely to cast its spell primarily on adolescent girls, while their elders might well find it more than a little tedious in its familiarity and artificiality.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-04/12158416.jpg ""Ella Enchanted,\" a breezy take on \"Cinderella,\" is likely to cast its spell primarily on adolescent girls, while their elders might well find it more than a little tedious in its familiarity and artificiality.")
Times Staff Writer"Ella Enchanted," a breezy take on "Cinderella," is likely to cast its spell primarily on adolescent girls, while their elders might well find it more than a little tedious in its familiarity and artificiality. That said, director Tommy O'Haver and his...Tags: Cary Elwes, Aidan McArdle, Cinema Industry, Hugh Dancy, Joanna Lumley
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'Jersey Girl'
![Imagine a Shirley Temple movie written and directed by Lenny Bruce — "Little Miss Marker" or "Wee Willie Winkie" — with key plot points involving pornography and masturbation, and you'll get an idea of what writer-director Kevin Smith has come up with in "Jersey Girl."](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-03/11967099.jpg "Imagine a Shirley Temple movie written and directed by Lenny Bruce — "Little Miss Marker\" or \"Wee Willie Winkie\" — with key plot points involving pornography and masturbation, and you'll get an idea of what writer-director Kevin Smith has come up with in \"Jersey Girl.\"")
Times Staff WriterImagine a Shirley Temple movie written and directed by Lenny Bruce — "Little Miss Marker" or "Wee Willie Winkie" — with key plot points involving pornography and masturbation, and you'll get an idea of what writer-director Kevin Smith has come...Tags: Miramax Films, Matt Damon, Shirley Temple, Lenny Bruce, Movies
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'Only the Strong Survive'
![Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's rousing documentary "Only the Strong Survive" takes its title from one of rhythm-and-blues pioneer Jerry Butler's most enduring hits, and it serves as an apt anthem not only for Butler but also for all of the other artists the filmmakers honor: Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett, Mary Wilson, Sam Moore, the Chi-Lites and Ann Peebles.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2003-05/7721262.jpg "Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's rousing documentary "Only the Strong Survive\" takes its title from one of rhythm-and-blues pioneer Jerry Butler's most enduring hits, and it serves as an apt anthem not only for Butler but also for all of the other artists the filmmakers honor: Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, Wilson Pickett, Mary Wilson, Sam Moore, the Chi-Lites and Ann Peebles.")
Times Staff WriterChris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's rousing documentary "Only the Strong Survive" takes its title from one of rhythm-and-blues pioneer Jerry Butler's most enduring hits, and it serves as an apt anthem not only for Butler but also for all of the other...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Miramax Films, Radio Industry, Cinema Industry, Documentary (genre)
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'Fahrenheit 9/11'
![He didn't call it "J'Accuse!" but he might as well have.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-06/13142533.jpg "He didn't call it "J'Accuse!\" but he might as well have.")
Times Staff WriterHe didn't call it "J'Accuse!" but he might as well have. Like Emile Zola, whose celebrated 19th century open letter assailed the French government for being a party to intolerable injustice, Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11" has launched an unapologetic...Tags: Family, George W. Bush, Documentary (genre), Movies, Katie Couric
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Wide Awake
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 20, 1998 "Wide Awake" is a wonderful family film that deals sensitively, and even with humor, with a fairly unusual situation for the screen: a 9-year-old's struggles with his faith in God. It conveys just how devastating the...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Miramax Films, Joseph Cross, Health and Safety at School
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'Mindhunters'
![Renny Harlin's "Mindhunters" begins with a deceptive scariness. Two FBI agents and would-be criminal profilers, J.D. (Christian Slater) and Sara (Kathryn Morris), on the track of a serial child-killer, come upon a derelict Victorian hotel in rural Virginia and investigate, discovering a large dining-table set with a child's birthday party frozen in time like Miss Havisham's wedding. There's much detritus strewn everywhere, the place is in shambles, and the basement is full of unspeakable horrors, yet they nab their man — only to discover too late that there's another man.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-05/17547818.jpg "Renny Harlin's "Mindhunters\" begins with a deceptive scariness. Two FBI agents and would-be criminal profilers, J.D. (Christian Slater) and Sara (Kathryn Morris), on the track of a serial child-killer, come upon a derelict Victorian hotel in rural Virginia and investigate, discovering a large dining-table set with a child's birthday party frozen in time like Miss Havisham's wedding. There's much detritus strewn everywhere, the place is in shambles, and the basement is full of unspeakable horrors, yet they nab their man — only to discover too late that there's another man.")
Times Staff WriterRenny Harlin's "Mindhunters" begins with a deceptive scariness. Two FBI agents and would-be criminal profilers, J.D. (Christian Slater) and Sara (Kathryn Morris), on the track of a serial child-killer, come upon a derelict Victorian hotel in rural...Tags: Kathryn Morris, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), LL Cool J, Career and Workplace, Christian Slater
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'Shall We Dance?'
!["Shall We Dance?" makes the move from Tokyo to Chicago with the deftness of Fred Astaire leading Ginger Rogers. In Masayuki Suo's 1996 version, a Tokyo office manager who's hit a bored and dissatisfied passage in his life catches a glimpse of a beautiful young woman peering somberly out a window of a ballroom dancing school as his commuter train whisks by. So transfixed is he by this vision of loveliness that he signs up for lessons at the school.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-10/14660064.jpg ""Shall We Dance?\" makes the move from Tokyo to Chicago with the deftness of Fred Astaire leading Ginger Rogers. In Masayuki Suo's 1996 version, a Tokyo office manager who's hit a bored and dissatisfied passage in his life catches a glimpse of a beautiful young woman peering somberly out a window of a ballroom dancing school as his commuter train whisks by. So transfixed is he by this vision of loveliness that he signs up for lessons at the school.")
Times Staff Writer"Shall We Dance?" makes the move from Tokyo to Chicago with the deftness of Fred Astaire leading Ginger Rogers. In Masayuki Suo's 1996 version, a Tokyo office manager who's hit a bored and dissatisfied passage in his life catches a glimpse of a...Tags: Dance, Miramax Films, Sports, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere
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'Impostor'
Times Staff WriterA sci-fi thriller that relies more on intelligence than spectacular action and special effects, "Impostor" could not be more timely as a parable on the threat to civil liberties in a society endangered by outside forces. Based on a 1953 Philip K. Dick...Tags: Tony Shalhoub, Stranger Than Fiction, Corporate Crime, Cinema Industry, Vincent D'Onofrio
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'Finding Neverland'
!["All characters, whether grown-ups or babes, must wear a child's outlook as their only important adornment," wrote Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie in the stage directions for "Peter Pan." This directive became a guiding principle for "Finding Neverland," Marc Forster's unabashedly loving, and largely fictionalized, take on Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, who inspired his most famous work.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-11/15041279.jpg ""All characters, whether grown-ups or babes, must wear a child's outlook as their only important adornment,\" wrote Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie in the stage directions for \"Peter Pan.\" This directive became a guiding principle for \"Finding Neverland,\" Marc Forster's unabashedly loving, and largely fictionalized, take on Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies family, who inspired his most famous work.")
Times Staff Writer"All characters, whether grown-ups or babes, must wear a child's outlook as their only important adornment," wrote Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie in the stage directions for "Peter Pan." This directive became a guiding principle for "Finding Neverland,"...Tags: Adults, Peter Jackson, Mackenzie Crook, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
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'Paper Clips'
![At a time the nation is both at war and deeply divided, Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab's wholly unexpected documentary "Paper Clips" arrives with an authentically persuasive message of hope: In the words of one of its children, "People can change the way they think about other people." "Paper Clips" attests to the transforming and far-reaching power of a simple idea.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-11/15199327.jpg "At a time the nation is both at war and deeply divided, Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab's wholly unexpected documentary "Paper Clips\" arrives with an authentically persuasive message of hope: In the words of one of its children, \"People can change the way they think about other people.\" \"Paper Clips\" attests to the transforming and far-reaching power of a simple idea.")
Times Staff WriterAt a time the nation is both at war and deeply divided, Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab's wholly unexpected documentary "Paper Clips" arrives with an authentically persuasive message of hope: In the words of one of its children, "People can change the way...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Miramax Films, Judaism, White House, Massacres
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Moore reacts to 'Fahrenheit' box office
Zap2It.comIt plays well in Peoria, and that's the most important thing for Michael Moore, whose "Fahrenheit 9/11" became the most successful documentary in history on Sunday. "The numbers have certainly surprised me and surprised everyone," says Moore in his first...Tags: Nassau County, Korean War (1950-1953), Illinois, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Documentary (genre)
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Retelling a Timeworn Love Story
TIMES STAFF WRITER"Kate & Leopold," a flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive...Tags: Brooklyn Bridge, Miramax Films, Meg Ryan, Liev Schreiber, Movies
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