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Dominican Rep. Crazy in Alabama
6,335
Drama. Comedy
Based on the novel by Mark Childress, the film takes place in the summer of 1965, and centres on an Alabama boy named Peejoe living in racially divided times. He gets a fast education in grown-up matters like freedom from the most unlikely of sourceshis glamorous, eccentric and abused Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who escapes from her husband's clutches and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.
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"Risks trivializing history and pandering to feminist fantasies, but it may be the year's most fearless movie." | POS |
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"There's much to enjoy here as long as your expectations aren't too high" | NEU |
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"The pieces don't always fit together smoothly, but there's a lot of flavorful work to savor." | POS |
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"Inadvertently does with the civil rights movement exactly what Banderas set out not to do: trivializes it." | NEU |
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"The juxtaposition of grim reality and pure fantasy doesn't work...the entire film seem artificial and contrived." | NEG |
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"The opposition of the two dramas winds up in gratifyingly moral and philosophical territory" | POS |
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"Although Banderas occasionally shows flashes of style, individual elements too often go together like grits in a puff pastry" | NEG |
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"An ungainly fit of three stories that have no business being shoehorned into the same movie" | NEU |
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"It's troubling to watch it stray and ramble as first-time director Antonio Banderas struggles to pull disparate elements together." | NEU |
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