Taking the basic idea of the United States Government covering up a scandal by starting a fake war, but changing the events and the scandal from Larry Beinhart’s novel, screenwriter David Mamet‘s 1997 darkly humorous satire casts Robert De Niro as governmental fixer Conrad Brean hired to steer media coverage from reports away from the President sexually assaulting a young girl in the Oval Office long enough for him to win re-election.
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The third film to star Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor was generally panned when it hit theaters in 1989. However, for a kid who saw this in theaters, the comedy featuring Wilder as deaf and Pryor as blind, thrown together as an odd couple both mistaken for killers and hunted by both the police (Alan North and Louis Giambalvo) and real killers (Joan Severance and Kevin Spacey) for an invaluable coin they don’t even know they posses falls squarely into the guilty pleasure category.
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Feeling somewhat lost to time, 1986’s Haunted Honeymoon, directed and co-written by Gene Wilder, was an attempt at a comedy-chiller that teased fantastical elements for both Wilder and his wife Gilda Radner. The film was both a box office and critical failure, and while still available Blu-ray (if you can find it) the film isn’t available on any streaming platform. However, there’s something worth revisiting for me every now and then.
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Like many romcoms, One Night Only gets a bit too cute for its own good. Set in an alternate reality where premarital sex has been outlawed except for one night a year, we get a glut of horny singles hitting on anything that moves. As far as a setup goes it’s not too bad, although the method by which the government tracks those having sex will clue you in on the kind of “logic” screenwriter Travis Braun‘s script will follow.
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Twenty years later, The Devil Wears Prada 2 reunites Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt. With none of the characters having changed in any notable way, a recently unemployed Andy (Hathaway) returns to Runway with the magazine in desperate need of an image makeover after a dreadful snafu has put the brand, and an ungrateful Miranda Priestly (Streep), in hot water.
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