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Beaches: Special Edition (1988)

by Dan Zak

[5.May.05] :. Beaches is the Goliath of those epic '80s melodramas, squashing patience and dignity and tact.

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Dec.04] :. 'When you do a love story as part of your film, you need to do a lot of love scenes, so we can see the lovers together,' explains Garry Marshall.

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Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Oct.04] :. 'Raising Helen's a happy, peppy picture, with Kate Hudson and her legs,' says Garry Marshall.

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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Aug.04] :. Even as it so loudly declares its interest in girls' independence, thoughtfulness, and generosity, Royal Engagement is disappointingly derivative, slapdash, and small-minded.

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The Princess Diaries: Special Edition (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.04] :. 'You know, sometimes you use a relative,' says Garry Marshall. 'I heard that nepotism is legal, so I made it an art form.'"

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Raising Helen (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. Helen's initial efforts to maintain her previous life are as glib as her inheritance of the children.

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The Princess Diaries (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[In 'The Princess Diaries'], among the many habits Mia must change is her too-teenish tendency to bob her head along with music on the radio ('You're not a doggie on a dashboard!' cries her alarmed grandma).

 

Runaway Bride (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

I worry about Julia Roberts. I know I don't need to but still, I feel like I can't help it. It's not because she's a particularly convincing performer on or off screen, though she does look distressed or vulnerable much of the time. It's not because the promoters for her latest movie, Runaway Bride, have been running ads with the creepiest stalker song ever made, the Police's Every Breath You Take.

 
 
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