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Drama

If you're in the mood for realistic characters and emotional themes, dramas are your best bet. Review your picks from the genre here. In this section, we rank over 300 of the Best Drama Movies, and you will also find lists of Shakespeare Movies and Film Noir Reviews.

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5 days ago

'Stand by Me' is a solid movie, and as many know was adapted from a Stephen King story. Good cast of characters who go on an adventure to find a dead body. Anyway, the movie holds up well but I think it's one of those movies where you can't watch it too many times. On that note, Lard Ass Hogan never gets old.
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26 days ago

This based on a true story movie was headed for five stars, but they blew it close to the end. In a movie that's all about making the right choices in life, the girlfriend of one of the basketball players clearly made a wrong one when she decided to get an abortion, yet their were no negative repercussions from this bad decision.

As far as the primary story line of a coach locking his team out of the gym until their grades were acceptable goes, I really enjoyed this one, and that's coming from someone who is often bored of dramas. Samuel L. Jackson was believable as a basketball coach, and the movie delivered quite well on it's main message (well except for the massive flaw listed above).

Also, if you want to nitpick, the officiating wasn't very realistic. High school refs don't take the crap that NBA ones do. During the state tournament game, the star player of the opposing team should have picked up about four technicals for all the jawing he was doing with the ref (you're ejected after two).
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32 days ago

This is a movie you've seen about a hundred times before.

Unlikely teacher takes over a bunch of troubled (but talented) kids and gives them self esteem and a reason to succeed. The script is cliched, the characters are so one dimensional they would seem stilted as cartoon characters, and the plot is predictable to the point of idiocy.

The only redeeming feature is an ok performance by Banderas, who is at least somewhat believable.

Oh yeah, and there is this scene....


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35 days ago

A simplistic and rather sophomoric film that somehow manages to rise above its many flaws to be average instead of the terrible which its director, writer and several of the cast suggested it would be.

Directed by that ungodly hack Rob Reiner, and based on a story by that other ungodly hack Stephen King, it tells a story of four boys in search of the dead body of another. The characters involved, as is typical with King are easily recognizable cliches (if King ever writes a story about a Second World War platoon it will be certain to include stock characters like the wholesome farm boy, the preacher's son, the wise cracking Brooklynite and the thoughtful college boy)

That being said, there is some decent acting here, notably by Kiefer Sutherland in a supporting role, John Cusack in a very small role, and River Phoenix in one of the primary roles. Its prettily filmed, which is something in its favor, and it seems to be better edited than Reiner's other work. Its worth a look, but not worth a lot of effort to seek it out.
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35 days ago

This is a great movie. Everything that comes from Stephen King is great. Four boys go searching for a dead body. In this film Richard Dreyfuss narrates.
Near the end of this film Dreyfuss says that one of those boys was murdered in the future. When the man tried to stop a fight, one of the two men stabbed him in the throat. I give SBM a 5 star rating.
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43 days ago

Review Icon Lena reviewed Crash in Drama Movies:
This film is well-acted, but otherwise quite overrated.

In a desperate attempt not to be misconstrued, Crash's storyline ends up feeling quite forced. In order to prove its thesis that racism comes in all forms, it includes far too many strands to deliver any meaningful character development. The fact that these plots must all then intertwine causes the characters themselves to feel more like cogs in a machine than in control of their own destiny.

As a viewer, one must suspend disbelief for the duration, and that achieves the opposite effect I suspect the director intended...distancing the viewer from the characters rather than enabling us to relate closely and examine our own prejudices.
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54 days ago

"Field of Dreams" is another one of those pleasant and inspiring movies that gives you a downright good feeling inside. A fitting movie for Father's Day.
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68 days ago

Another great book by Nicholas Sparks! I didn't read the book but I bet it's good. I loved the movie. A really nice and loving story. Two people fall in love and do anything they can to see eachother again after one moves and becomes a nurse. It starts off as a man is reading a book to a woman. Later on you find out that the two people are married and the woman has forgoten the past. Slowly as he reads the past to her she remembers it. I would tell you the end but it's too good to tell you. This is one movie that will not disapoint you!
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72 days ago

This film didn't suck but it was the worst of the six Rocky movies. The main problem was that Rocky had a street fight instead of a prizefight. When people went to see the Rocky movies, they expected to see prizefights. Not a street fight. Rocky also lost all of his money in this movie. Many fans hated that.
At the beginning of each Rocky movie (Except for the first and sixth one) it shows the ending of the fight that he had in the previous movie. Why wasn't the ending of the street fight shown in the beginning of Rocky Balboa? It was obviously not shown because the street fight was pathetic.
The producers of the Rocky movies wouldn't let Stallone make a sixth Rocky film until he paid them a certain amount of money. Chartoff and Winkler probably did that because they lost their shirts after the fifth movie was released.
Even a big Rocky supporter said that Rocky V stunk. I believe that this movie is worth watching but it isn't a very good movie. Back in the eighties I would never in my wildest dreams have imagined that Stallone would make a Rocky movie that had a street fight. I give this film a 2 star rating.
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79 days ago

Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005) was inspired by the life of Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) and stars Michael Pitt as Blake. He is an extremely gifted musician with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Blake is excellently portrayed by Pitt; his eyes and mannerisms show his despair and the feeling of confinement in his life. The constant tour dates, visitors to his home, friends coming and going, and people asking for money and help have drained Blake. The music he so loves has made his life miserable.

In a trance like state he avoids everyone as he lurks around the house and in the woods. He walks slow and hunched over while incoherently talking to himself. The movie opens with him wondering through the woods where he goes for a swim; I took the water to symbolize hope and freedom, he then urinates in it. After sleeping in the woods by a fire he shuffles back to his seedy mansion. Evan with no spoken words thus far, you can sense he is troubled and deeply depressed and alone.

During the movie we learn more reasons for his self isolation. By using extended duration camera shots you can really feel his thoughts and emotions. Scenes of his musical talent are shown that allow us to further glimpse into his life. At times the movie will jump back to replay a scene from a different point of view

7 out of 10 - Rated R - This is not a happy film and it leaves many things to interpretation. It is a good one for fans of Kurt Cobain or anyone that can not understand how a brilliant successful musician can end up in feeling this way. As most people will realize how this ends it is really a story of oneself and the battle within.


Dain Binder
http://www.dainsmoviereviews.com/2009/08/last-days-movie-review.html
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