Advantages: A good thriller Disadvantages: Plot holes, need to suspend disbelief
Jack Bauer (no, not THAT Jack Bauer) is a workaholic businessman who has little room in his life for anything else, including his girlfriend with whom he is supposed to be on holiday. Hoping he can follow her later, he is on the underground on his way to an important meeting when he sees a little girl with a woman. That little girl then gets off the train, leaving her stuffed toy behind; when Jack tries to chase after her, he sees a poster in the train window - advertising the disappearance of the very little girl, called Carla, he has just seen. A chance meeting with the Carla's mother, Laura, means that Jack gets involved in the police investigation into Carla's apparent kidnap - and that involvement soon becomes deeper than he could have ever imagined. Can he do what the police can't - bring Carla home?
Made back in 1991, long ...
Advantages: funny, original, Disadvantages: girly again, sorry boys
Connie and Carla are two waitresses who dream of making it big with their cheesy cabaret act. Unfortunately, their act is limited to airport lounges, where most of their audience are grumpy and asleep. They've been best friends since school, live with their mommas and have loser boyfriends who have no faith in them either. Then one day, they witness their boss being shot in a argument with some mobsters, and they hit the road, heading straight to LA, where they figure they'll never get found.
So, they rent an apartment and look for work, which is pretty hard going as there is not much call for cabaret acts in LA. Then one night, they end up in a gay club, which is where they find the ultimate disguise- drag queens. Heavy makeup and deep voices convince the other drag queens that they are in fact men dressed as women and they build up ...
Advantages: It's fabulous darling Disadvantages: Vardalos needs to let go of the reins sometimes
Connie and Carla are two lounge singers who have to go on the lam from their native Chicago after witnessing a mob hit on their boss. They decide to hide in a place with ?no culture and no dinner theatre? and so end up in Los Angeles where they disguise themselves as drag queens and become the toast of the town. But things get complicated when Connie falls for her friend?s straight brother, who isn?t interested because he thinks she?s a man. All that and the Mafia boss has sent a Russian thug after them?
Nia Vardalos was the brains behind ?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? a couple of years ago. A take on her stand-up routine turned into a massive sleeper hit. It wasn?t the best comedy to hit the screens, but it was a feel-good movie that rang bells for many of its viewers. ?Connie and Carla? is similar in that it takes a well-worn formula ...
afy9mab 30.06.2004
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